"A good point," Amberdrake admits, and lifts the end of it again. Sanzo can feel, no doubt, the nervousness that spikes through him whenever he so much as looks directly at the thing, let alone touches it. It never shows physically.

"If this thing is so irreversibly tied to you as you say, I will do my best to get over my fear of it."

And he bows quite smoothly to place a kiss on the parchment-that-isn't.