[Her entire expression lights up as he offers the paper to her.] Really? That's awesome! [And he was so worried about his stories before!

She receives the sheet of paper eagerly, her expression delighted as she holds it up to read. Within the first two lines, her smile fades, though the resulting look is carefully neutral, her eyes wide with thought as they scan over the lines he's written.

This is...how he was feeling as he fell from Maru. She remembers her conversation with Goro about heights, about falling. The idea of it didn't seem so scary from up there. And still, reading this, she doesn't think the falling would be the scary part. But having so much time to think about what you're leaving behind...

She swallows thickly. The last line brings Kaede's tears to the forefront of her mind, and her own tears to her eyes. She blinks quickly and wipes them away on her sleeve, and then looks up at Minato to give him a soft smile.] This is--really amazing. I like how you used the idea of meeting as, um... What's it called? Where it's at both the beginning and the end?

[A quiet chuckle, to dismiss her own cluelessness.] Yeah! I can really imagine falling when I read this.