Long
Way back
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She's a girl escaping from an Alien Invasion by traveling between Alternate Universes for so long she got lost and can't find her way back to her homeworld.
Source: Mysterious Waif - Go too far off course or stay off the course for too long, however, and the game will immediately abort your run and place you all the way back at the point where you first left the track.
Source: Short Cuts Make Long Delays -
Nanoha's very first befriending in the original Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, which she did way back in kindergarten, long before she gained any magical abilities.
Source: Wimp Fight
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