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Padan fain/ishamael. Redemption

[Send me a character or pairing, and a one word prompt, and I'll write you a drabble!]

Ishamael’s fingers where like a corpse’s: cold and stiff with faint discoloration at the nails and the tips. It made Padan want to snarl. It made him want to bite into the flesh of them and drink in the man’s accursed blessed blood.

“The Shienaran has left us.” Ishamael mused as he stroked Padan’s neck, almost scratching it. “It seems he craves redemption.”

Padan Fain couldn’t help but snort. Redemption? After all they had sworn? All they had done? It was no easy thing, being a Friend of the Dark, and no clean thing either. Not for Queens or beggars. Better to embrace it.

“His hunger for more died then?” Fain murmured. He could not imagine it. His own hunger had burned so long, so hot, deep in his belly- for more, for what he was owed, for what he deserved, that only the promises made by the Great Lord could dull the pain of it, even a little.

Ishamael laughed, a dark, terrible sound and for a moment his hands closed around Fain’s neck. Fain expected the life to be choked out of him in the next second. The whims of the Chosen where like that. But instead finger nails only dug lightly into his skin.

“No. But it was overcome. By hope.” Ishamael’s soft voice turned hard at the last word, almost spitting it with disgust. “That vicious lie, the one that keeps the Wheel grinding.”

Padan felt the urge to cackle. “Not a defect I share, I promise you Great Master.”

Ishamael’s nail dug deeper. “No. There is no redemption for you, Padan Fain, is there?” There was amusement in that voice now, and something else- respect. “You crave to deeply for that.”

In answer, Padan nipped at the edge of Ishamael’s palm, a shiver running through his body as he tasted skin. Even the Chosen where just flesh, in the end.

Ishamael laughed and then the lights started to dim of their own accord, before winking out.

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