Natalia is speaking in poetic terms and though Shu is well versed in metaphor and prolix sophistry, she is too much a spirit of nature and zen to appreciate the world through a mathematical lens. Still, she supposes she has a sense of what is being conveyed.

"...I do not think that is a way that I can approach the world. But I begin to conceive of what you might be saying. Insofar as one might view the foundations of the world as anything concrete, I suppose that mathematics is a possibility." Numbers were too sterile for her heart. "So you understand your soul through math. But I think my initial question remains of how one might care for this Lotus?"