As was its nature, Aysus was slowly adjusting to the universe as it now knew it. The process could never be rushed, only acknowledged as necessary and accepted in its entirety. But, as it contemplated its new universe, Aysus also watched Tahaan at play. It could not understand its counterpart's excitement with everything new and unknown, but it could see that excitement bubbling through its companion. For a moment, Aysus felt a trace of sorrow. Each of them was the only companion the other had. They were so completely opposite that the one could never fully understand the other, no matter how much they tried. There was no doubt that Aysus would not know what to make of a universe without Tahaan in it, and Tahaan felt the same way about it, but if anything that almost made it worse. Each naturally tried to reject its own nature in order to please the other, and the other only felt guilt at knowing it was bringing its companion to do something it did not really want to do.

But Aysus could not fully understand this sorrow it felt. It was like the new universe, strange and foreign and something that it could not understand no matter how hard it tried. it was, like the new universe, something that was going to have to be understood at a later date. Perhaps, when they both managed to understand it, the sorrow that it felt at the moment would no longer be necessary.

When Aysus noticed that Tahaan was watching it, Aysus turned away from its own still contemplation of the things that were, and once more turned to face the things that could be. Briefly it hesitated, trying to rationalize the difference between the things that were, and the things that could be out of the things that were. Was it really truly a change? It was something new in the sense that Aysus had never before experienced it in the manner it was being presented, but it was also true that the thing that was being presented was still the same thing that it had always been. If it looked closely enough, the threads would prove that every time. Could it really, therefore, be called a new thing?

Uncertain at the moment as to the answer of its own question, Aysus put it as one more of the ever-growing number of things that could only be solved by letting them exist for long enough. 

[i]~Come,~[/i] it called to Tahaan. [i]~Show me these things that make you so excited.~[/i]