Rainbow Snippets: Safe?

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…

Liquid collected in the back of his mouth, burning his throat. He clapped his hands over his lips in an effort to keep himself from spewing the contents across his blankets. His innate healing rushed to mend the affected area, its constant soothing leaving a tingling patch. His breath fought for release, shuddering out his nose in burbling puffs.

The crude, shimmering shape of his shield enclosed him, muffling the arguing voices that continued outside.

He closed his eyes, blocking out the light. He was safe here. He’d a hound to watch over him, a hedgewitch that few people would risk, a concerned friend in Marin and…

Authril.

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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