The compact hospital seat squishes beneath Noe and Daniel as 'A Guide to Zirathean Myths and Legends' sits open on their laps.
Leaning against each other for warmth, they shift through the pages that read:
When an Ephrene makes physical contact with their soulmate, the soulmate's current state can overwhelm the Ephrene to an extent enough to cast them into it - resulting in a signifying fainting spell. The soulmate and Ephrene alike enter an alternate subconscious. Within this subconscious where only memories, hopes, and emotions of the fated exist, soulmates experience a shared reality called the dreamstate.
Feng Mian and Rosalind lie unconscious, sprawled over Jinn's bed and still holding his hands.
"Can three souls be paired together?"
"Such a phenomenon has never been recorded," Noe responds.
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