People just don’t talk like this anymore. Can you say “anymore” about a fiction? If it were me, I’ could offer up any of the following:
“If by my life or by:
- my love for cookies;
- my double-jointedness;
- my spreadsheet of books I’ve read
- my prior attendance at two Parliament concerts
- my unused Master’s degree
- my experience being stung by a jellyfish
I can protect you, I will.”