mirrors other’s souls a cost: time part other, individuals mating pair — Ken Liu, Paper Menagerie Stories

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But being the mirrors for each other's souls has a cost: by the time they part from each other, the individuals in the mating pair have become indistinguishable. Before their merger, they each yearned for the other; as they part, they part from the self. The very quality that attracted them to each other is also, inevitably, destroyed in their union.

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