Proposal

Paul had written, in his atrocious handwriting (he was used to typing, texting, and gaming, not writing with a pen, like Jesse):

I know you’ll hate this, but I saw them (both the card and bracelet), and thought of you. The emeralds match your eyes (I know, I’m getting sentimental in my old age, aren’t I?) and you slayed me long ago

What do you mean, what you felt earlier?”

“You know exactly what I’m talking about. We may no longer have a ghost-­mediator connection, Susannah, but I can still tell when you’re feeling afraid, and earlier this evening, you were very, very afraid—­”