Cryptozoology

Talking with Rachel on Skype is a little like trying to capture footage of Bigfoot.

You wait long hours for her to appear and, suddenly, there she is! You throw out a phone call, hoping for a little conversation, maybe just to learn more about the journeys of this elusive creature, but what you get is garbled and unclear. She keeps disappearing, because either she or her internet connection is wary of humans, and sometimes all you get is a tantalizing moment of discernible words before she vanishes again into the wilds of Japan.

In the end, you're left with nothing but a few fragments of information to sustain your faith that contact can be made, even while the skeptical masses express their disbelief.