Bound by the Cursed Moon
She reached for my other hand, holding both now, her grip fractionally less certain than it once had been, as though she were memorizing the feeling in case it too was eventually asked of her, and I found myself holding on just a little tighter in response, as though my own grip alone might anchor whatever hers could no longer be certain of.
"Promise me something," I said, my voice rougher than I intended. "If you start to forget me completely, truly, not just small pieces at the edges, promise you will tell me immediately, and we will find another way, even if that other way means letting Corin win this particular fight."
"I promise," she said, and I heard the full weight of meaning it sett