It was weird, was what it was. X had to agree with Meira because he didn't know how not to agree with her when she had to be right. But he'd never had a breakdown in understanding like that before. He'd met a lot of people who had words for things he'd never heard of before, but this was the first time someone had a word that just meant something completely different.

X's yimo had been lounging forgotten in his lap during the tangent; now he remembered it and thumbed it back on eagerly to show Meira the screen.

"Of course not," he said. "Love is always love, no matter what. But their families and their friends don't want them to love each other, so they have to fight just to see each other, so whenever they succeed, it's beautiful."