He called her Aura, because she could so easily read his. She called him Qi, after the Chinese word to describe "energy flow" as it was so fitting. When they were madly in love she named every twenty-second star in a constellation after him using his nickname. When they were madly in love he created Finland and named the personification of it after her using her nickname. Though he found the idea of nicknames to be absurd, she found comfort in them, often calling him 'Honey' and 'Sweetheart'. He'd be lying if he said he didn't… grow a certain fondness of them.

Before her all he did was complete the square of a simple algebraic equation.

After her all he could do was desperately try to maintain it.

She hated him, he knew that. And in a way, he hated her.

Hate was and still is a very real thing. Love is uncertain.

Before her the concept of love was a mystery.

After her the concept of love was absurd, and he wanted to destroy whatever fragments it had left in the Matrix.

Change is always a very dangerous game.