Rainbow Snippets: Companionable intimacy

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 on from last week’s beginning snippet of chapter one…

When it wasn’t the horror of the tower, it was the hound. Those visions he hadn’t minded as much, being less ghostly images and more a rehashing of the night they’d spent together. A night that had left him sleeping just as soundly as if he had never left home. Left him longing to have the man back in his arms, to bask in the companionable intimacy he hadn’t really felt with Authril.

Surely, he didn’t need the hound for that. Marin and Katarina were just as warm. They had sat with him easily enough, sympathetic where Authril had been dismissive. There’d been caution in their words, of course, but the softness came from a place of care rather than any fear of what he might do. Katarina had even tried to talk him through his grief as they pitched his tent last night.

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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