not being a particularly sweeping romantic myself I am of the opinion that this is the kind of work that takes a village

hmmm YEAH hard agree!! Can't help but wonder if both of them came back from the experience of being put back together from shards of themselves in space with some aspects of themselves forever missing, because the other didn't actually know everything about them! That would be interestingly horrifying to explore, actually, but I understand why the book didn't go there.

I'm real excited for this to come up in ORV though now!!!