bookbinder: you and i. we are akin to the twins, no?

tailor: confused. how do you mean?

bookbinder: clarification. the binary star system of which we orbit.

tailor: annoyed. i understand cosmology. i do not understand the comparison. i am not akin to a star. neither are you.

bookbinder: sympathetic. i call it a metaphor.

tailor: a metaphor?

bookbinder: qualifier?

tailor: confused. still. query for further explanation.

bookbinder: understanding. a metaphor is correlating two entities between subtle shared properties. interpreting more than a literal recognition of patterns. inferring implicit connections communicated in transmission. extrapolating reasonable unknowns.

tailor: intrigued. elaborate.

bookbinder: what do you think we have in common with the twins?

tailor: perplexed. elaborate.

bookbinder: neither you nor i exceed temperatures above five-thousand kelvin.

tailor: affirmative.

bookbinder: neither you nor i bear six orbital satellites.

tailor: seven orbital satellites.

bookbinder: seven orbital satellites.

tailor: affirmative. elaboration?

bookbinder: interpret, infer, extrapolate.

tailor: … elaboration?

bookbinder: interpret: verb. to explain the meaning o—

tailor: annoyed. annoyed. annoyed.

bookbinder: love.

tailor: embarrassment.

bookbinder: love. senna and myrrh are gravitationally bound by one other, orbiting so closely together they share coronas. observed at a distance, they appear the same star. fated to collide.

tailor: confusion. tailor, bookbinder… metaphorically?

bookbinder: tailor, bookbinder, fated to collide. and when that happens—

tailor: we'll explode?

bookbinder: metaphorically. and it will be beautiful.