This is a question addressed to anyone who's seen the series Serial 
Experiment LAIN (forthcoming from Pioneer I think?), and has some 
questions/points that I'm contemplating writing a fic about.

<< SPOILERS involved below, don't read if you haven't seen this series>>

<<You were warned before, I relinquish any responsibility for disillusionment 
from a spoiled anime series>>

I watched the entirety of this series a couple weeks ago and went back to 
watch the last of the episodes, #'s 9-14 last weekend.  In the end of the 
very last episode, we see Alice & and that teacher whom she had a 
relationship walking down the street, and Alice goes on about how she's done 
everything that he wanted, and that now she wanted _him_ to do something for 
her.Anyways, she turns around, and sees Lain standing above them on a 
footbridge, and runs up to Lain to see why she seems familiar to her (Alice). 
 Anyways Alice asks "Do I know you?  Maybe from when I was a student 
teacher?..." 

(BTW, can anyone supply a name for Alice's boyfriend from the anime? I don't 
recall ever seing mention of it...?)

>From this I am extrapolating that some fair period of time has elapsed since 
Lain's erasure of all the
Wired's & therefore _all_ the world's memories of her.  Would anyone say that 
ten years might be about right?  Alice & Lain were in the last? year of 
junior high as I recall at the beginning, and
Alice is now (I am supposing) a full teacher in some school.  I don't recall 
the bits I've heard about the
Japanese school system, but I am supposing about 4 years after in the upper 
high school and similar for
a degree in the university system, and a couple years obtaining a full 
teacher's credentials?

Anyways, the point of this is that Lain is significantly shorter than Alice, 
so I am supposing she appears the same age as before.  My conclusion is that 
Lain exists primarily in "the Wired" now, but since the real world & the 
Wired interface seamlessly (Protocol 7-rewritten), she can manifest in the 
"real world" without any problems, at any age she wants.

Please email me with discussion/comments/thoughts, although I'm not an 
established writer, I'm itching to take a shot at this series, especially 
after the Ghost in the Shell series "Birth of a new Species", and I'm 
developing ideas, but I am unsure about some of what I'd base the fic on, 
stemming from the question(s) above.