Rainbow Snippets: A sleepless rite of passage

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…

Their journey back to the tents slipped back into silence, a lighter kind than when they’d begun. They circled the campsite until their path returned them to the tents. Nothing had changed beyond the fire having burnt itself out. That was to be expected.

Tracker’s gaze drifted to his own tent. Given that he hadn’t slept for more than a handful of hours beneath the canvas tonight, the time taken to pitch it seemed a waste. “I know you may not get any rest at all, but you should at least attempt sleep, yes? I will take your turn on watch tonight.” Doing so wouldn’t grant the man more than the scant two hours he would’ve spent alone out here, but there was nothing else to offer. Getting by on little sleep was practically a rite of passage for hounds.

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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