Spectrum of Colours
side-story
Moon and Glow
4.
They keep each other sane, they think. Their personalities are balanced enough to keep them both themselves, both alive. The colours mix, yes, but they don't. They're the only ones that don't. The only ones that survive this otherwise binary world.
They're lucky, that they've met each other. Or it's not luck they've met, because she glows and he reflects that glow. But it's luck that she's come by, just in time to stop him from losing himself to the datastream like everybody else, and she shines bright enough to keep them both out of it.
She laughs when he says it. 'You reflect my light, then,' she replies. 'Like the moon reflects the sun. You keep me anchored too.'
So they save each other.
They don't think they might have doomed each other too.