<sub>[ he wants to curl his tail out of the way and just take a swoon back onto the bedspread so he can stare at some uninteresting speck of Above and nothing else, but-- there's a grip on his tail. there's an anchoring little pinkie holding it, and as long as that's there then it's one more moving part to consider. that's one more way action has to speak.

when he speaks aloud, it's with a sideling glance at Muffin's face. ]</sub>

Well. It is rather difficult for one to be held to vows they haven't even made, in their memory. If they're the sort of vows of which I'm familiar.

...
But...
_{[ more softly, ]}
You do remember him.
_{[ And he WILL remember more.]}