Rainbow Snippets: Still meant to be cared for.

Rainbow Snippets is a Facebook group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week and share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation.

Being a sequel, In Love and Death is set directly after In Pain and Blood. Some snippets will contain spoilers of those events.

Following last week’s snippet…

Dylan gave a derisive snort. “I was never a warrior. None of us were. I don’t know why they trained us to think we could be when the army never saw us as anything more than weapons.”

Tracker recalled similar words from his fellow hound, Fetcher. He wished he’d believed her sooner. Wished there’d been something either of them could have done without their mistress knowing.

“And I was terrible at that, too.” The spellster laughed, the sound carrying only heartache. “Weapons aren’t supposed to feel, they’re not meant to care that the soldier fighting alongside them fell trying to keep them alive.” The campfire flared, spitting and sparking as though pig fat dripped onto the embers. “You don’t see a sword getting weepy over the dead.”

They are still meant to be cared for, though. Whether the weapon be of steel or magic, the army did a terrible job of looking after either. Nor did he believe the outcome would have changed.

I’ll see you all with more from In Love and Death next week. In the meantime, check out these other snippets.

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