Claimed by my Sister's Fiancé
Somewhere beyond it, I heard Cormac's voice, real this time, raw and certain.
"I love her," he was saying, to whatever version of me his own trial had conjured. "Whatever you show me, whatever doubt you dress up in her voice, I know exactly what's real, because I've spent two years watching her choose me back."
The darkness shattered entirely, and I found myself on my knees on the stone dais, Cormac beside me, both of us breathing hard, the Warden watching with an expression I couldn't quite read.
"Well," the Warden said slowly. "That is not a result I have witnessed in considerably longer than either of you would believe."