Neither of them really believed the idea that opposites attracted each other until they found themselves in closer orbit through their mutual explosion of identity, no thanks to Queen Wasp. Kagami should have found Luka's endless musical creation and anarchic houseboat life as unbearable as he should have found her ritualized, tightly scheduled, and technologically augmented environment stifling and uncreative.

Yet, when they were together, she could pick out the underlying order in his chaos, each part of him completely in harmony with the others, a flawless arrangement Kagami could study as a koan for the rest of her life and come no closer to enlightenment than Luka Couffaine already was.