Moments

"Give me the papers!" The cloaked man raged.

I gripped the papers in my hand, the papers my mother had died to protect.

Ash met my gaze from across the clearing.

I knew I had to do something. Ash stared at me, begging me not to do what I was thinking. He always did know what I was thinking.

"Shay, no." I heard him whisper.

"You mean these papers?" I said triumphantly, holding the papers in the air.

The cloaked man snarled and leaped at me. I dodged just in time.

I tucked the papers into my coat. "Come and get them."

He lunged again and I knew I had moments until he hit me, until my life was over.

I pulled my power into a veil around me, knowing it probably wouldn't help me.

Ash caught my gaze and I kept his eye until the cloaked man hit me.

I would be thinking of him in my last moments, and I knew he would forever remember this day.

After all, you remember your last moments with someone.