Reina had the benefit of being raised amid Eastern philosophies as opposed to Western, which meant she was more willing to trust general policies of dualities. She understood, in a way the others did not, the existence of polarities, the mysticism of opposition: that acknowledging the presence of life meant accepting the presence of death. That knowledge necessitated ignorance. That gain meant loss. Ambition suggested contentment, in a sense, because starvation implied the existence of glut.