“We, in our human form, are very similar to black holes.”

The girl looked disappointed.

The woman noticed.  “…not in a negative sense, I’m not speaking of a void…which I think is a misconception about black holes anyway…”  Her voice trailed off, following her thoughts.  The woman smiled with eyes closed and shook her head gently as if trying to nudge her mind back onto its tracks. “We are similar in that we consistently operate on two planes of existence.  …well more than two, but for our purposes, let’s stick with two.”