"Tanabata"... "The evening of the seventh". Yes, I've heard of this. It was commonly celebrated in Japan, on that night, two stars would align and they believed it was some sort of meeting of the gods. Even now that all humans know stars are not gods, they still celebrate these things. Curious.

[He has to say it outloud as if by giving form to the words, he can understand better. Kaworu knows the festival is about reuniting and he wants to be one those humans writing wishes on strips of paper out of some deep desire to hope.]

I would like to write a wish. If I can.