Rainbow Snippets: The suggestion of smoke.

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…

They walked beneath the trees, Dylan wordlessly uncoupling their arms along the way. The spellster’s head tipped back, his focus either on the canopy or the stars beyond, clearly having no desire to speak further.

As much as Tracker knew that talking would help the man vent some of his frustrations and guilt, he didn’t want to push. Everything was still raw. He would should it be required, if only to keep Dylan from suppressing his grief until he exploded.

The forest remained no less quiet than it had been during his last check. Cool air ghosted along his temples, absent of the smoke that had permeated much of their travels. The suggestion of it still clung to his clothes. Burning wood and parchment, overlaid by the jerkin’s natural leather smell and the musk of a day’s travel.

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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