a rollercoaster kind of rush

Your past and mine are parallel lines

Soh watched with delight as confusion became understanding, accepting Zavien's beaming smile with a matching one of her own. Now that she'd given him his parchment, she was so glad that she hadn't waited. It was worth it for the absolute, awestruck joy on his face. "I thought you might feel that way." Plucking the pencil from his grasp, she wrote, I love you, too. Then, she tucked her piece back away in her pocket. "The parchment won't tear or wrinkle, so you don't have to worry about damaging it," she explained. "And, eventually, it'll be like talking back and forth instead of writing. Or, that's the goal, anyway." But for now, it would certainly do.

As for where she'd gotten the idea, Soh shrugged. "I had a few ideas, but the parchment seemed like the best fit. I used to have a pair of earrings that would do something similar, but I gave them away during a quest for Vi, when I had to do something selfless. And at their most basic form, they only worked one way, anyway." In order to make them truly two-way, she'd have had to upgrade them, and even then, she thought the range might be limited. "But I have a two-way parchment like this with Flora, and she has another one with Kaisel - and theirs is upgraded like I wanted to do with ours, so they can talk back and forth, or at least that's how Flora described it to me."

Stars all aligned and they intertwined