The story has a lot of elements to it, a lot of ideas that I was drawing in, but the story at its heart is really about finding that one person in the world that is your perfect match--that no matter how much of a weirdo everyone else thinks you are, that there is someone out there that will fit you perfectly. Ezhno is an anomaly for a Native American. He loves inventing, has a taste for fine clothing. Conrad also loves inventing and a taste for dangerous men that his family really doesn't understand. Both don't feel entirely at home with where they began, but they find a home in each other. They each see what they desire in the other and thus they fit.