Rainbow Snippets: Morning comes

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.

With last week’s snippet being the final of the prologue (which can now be read in full), we’re moving on to chapter one…

The hearty scratching at his tent flap jolted Dylan from what his body had begrudgingly begun to accept was sleep. At first, he thought it was his turn to take over the night watch, but the gleam of light creeping through the tent was too much for a mere camp fire.

Morning had come.

He lay still, not sure if he’d the strength to haul himself out from beneath his cocoon of blankets. His gaze traversed the patchwork of leather stretched above him, following the outline of shadows created by the low sunlight shining through the trees.

Even though he had tried to follow Tracker’s instructions, he didn’t recall drifting off. He must have managed at some point in order to be waking up. How? That was a mystery he wished he’d an answer to. Every time he had closed his eyes, images of the dead invaded the darkness. He had jerked out of that state so many times with his magic flickering around him, that he was surprised the tent still stood.

I’ll be back with more from In Love and Death next weekend. In the meantime, check out these other snippets.

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