Ashes to Desire
When it cleared, he was standing there.
Dain.
He looked exactly as I remembered, yet nothing like the man I'd once fought beside. His face was still handsome in that severe way, but his eyes... what had been warm brown was now an unnatural amber, similar to Ember's but lacking her humanity. Dark enhancements traced patterns across the visible skin of his neck and hands, pulsing slightly in rhythm with my own mark.
"Hail," he said, my name sounding wrong in his mouth. "Still playing the hero?"
I raised my blades, ignoring the screaming pain in my arm. "Still playing the lapdog?"
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