Support branching patterns?

[philiporlando]

I'm looking for a way to use python_mermaid to mimic Mermaid's branching pattern:

a & b --> c --> d & e

flowchart LR
a & b --> c --> d & e

From what I gathered from the docs, python_mermaid does not directly support this pattern? Can you help me understand the least verbose way of creating these Link() objects using this package?