a rollercoaster kind of rush

Your past and mine are parallel lines

As expected, the first few bites were the most challenging to get through. Soh very nearly pushed her plate away as she forced herself to swallow a steamed carrot, doing her best not to gag on the mild flavor. But she couldn't just not eat, not when there was another little life depending on her, so she soldiered on, and after a few more mouthfuls of food, she looked decidedly less green and began to actually enjoy the meal. Still, she maybe wouldn't return to the vegetables, instead focusing on small bites of the rest of her plate.

"Well," she said between bites, eyes sparkling with a satisfied sort of mischief. "I wanted a way to keep in touch with you when we're apart, so... I asked Safrin to help me make a two-way parchment." She paused to take a sip of water. "I had intended to upgrade it so that we could talk to it instead of writing messages, but..." She shrugged. Then everything had gone so spectacularly sideways - not wrong, but different - that it no longer seemed like as much of a priority. "Anyway, I'll quest to upgrade them as soon as I can, but in the meantime -"

Pulling out the two pieces of parchment from her pocket, she sat them in the middle of the table, Safrin's message (I see congratulations are in order. You will make a wonderful mother.) on display in graceful writing. "- anything you write on one immediately appears on the other. It seems like a good idea, given our news, to go ahead and give one to you now."

Stars all aligned and they intertwined