You have to fetch something for me.
-- Karin (Page 34 paragraph 1)

Importance: Early in the novel, Karin first announces to Nina that Nina must fetch something for Karin, that Karin no longer wishes to have any part of, saying Nina will help someone in the process. Nina is instructed to pick up a suitcase from Central Station system controlling section 37, locker 43.

But just what the hell was it she was supposed to be doing?
-- Nina (Page 44 paragraph 2)

Importance: After discovering the boy in the suitcase, Nina is in disbelief. Many questions race through her mind, from why there is a boy in a suitcase in a travel station, to why Karin should know about it, to what Nina herself is supposed to do about things, now. These are all questions which fuel the plot, and which will be answered in time.

She still needed to save the world, still needed to feel that she wasn’t powerless.
-- Narrator (Page 130 paragraph 3)

Importance: Here, the...