Rainbow Snippets: Gnawing guilt

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 snippet…

It didn’t help that the days he had slept alone throughout his life were minimal. In the tower, he had spent a large portion of his childhood sleeping in the dorm with a gaggle of other boys. After that, he’d gone a grand total of a few weeks before meeting the gangly, wary elven boy who had grown into his friend, Sulin.

Gods. He flung an arm over his face, unable to do more as fresh tears flowed. I’m sorry, Su. He should’ve been faster. Should’ve—

Should’ve what? Rushed to prevent a disaster he hadn’t known about? The hound was right, there was no way any of them could’ve predicted what happened. It was a truth he unequivocally agreed with.

Knowing he’d been powerless to stop it did nothing to temper the guilt gnawing at his core.

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

If you’re looking for more news of my books, be sure to “Like” my Facebook page and/or join me in my Facebook group!