Outsider

Once upon a time there were two friends.  They sat down and each created a drawing of the world.  When they were finished, they looked at each other's pictures and saw that the two were quite different in many ways.  They had individual drawing styles and had added unique details.  One drew the world with crayons, the other with colored pencils.  Both worlds were beautiful.  "Let's trade some parts of our pictures, so that they are a pair, rather than separate entities!" said the friends.  So they took scissors and cut out some of the people in their drawings of the world.  Then they glued the people into the opposite drawings.  Upon reviewing their work, they saw that the exchanged people made the pictures come together nicely, but the individual pictures both looked a little strange in the places where the other drawings had been grafted in.  The people looked out of place and didn't fit in with their surroundings.  

The friends went back to work.  They shared their crayons and pencils and tried to make the new people look like they belonged in the new world.  Adding pencil and crayon on top of the people made them more similar to the people around them, and spreading crayon and pencil from the new people to the original people helped too. The pictures started looking more and more natural and looked quite nice together.  

The friends worked for a long time trying to get the pictures just right.  As they worked, they realized that no matter how much they fine-tuned the new people to match the other world, they couldn't quite make the drawings perfect.  The wax of the crayons was bright through the muted colors of the pencils; it was impossible to cover completely.  

"What will we do?!  These people will never look like a true part of the world!  And now we've drawn on them, so we can't just put them back in their own worlds!  They've been ruined forever!" said one friend.  But the other friend was not so pessimistic and narrow-minded.  "They may not fit in, but look at the whole picture.  We've achieved our initial goal of turning the two worlds into one, and furthermore, each original picture has more depth now that it has a mixture of crayons and pencils.  I guess if you look closely at the traded areas, they do seem a little funny, but not in a bad way. It is interesting to see the crayons and pencils come together on one person. The people may not have all the colors of their new worlds, and some of the colors from their original worlds have been concealed, but I guess if they were to have all the colors of both worlds on them they'd need to be two people.  The exchanged people will never look like an original part of the picture, but the blend is intriguing, and most importantly, they connect the two worlds."