Rainbow Snippets: Punishment of the outed.

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…

Authril remained silent, but her stare remained unforgiving and distant. Her earlier sourness seemed to have etched itself into her face, even as she struggled to smooth her features and make her observation of him less noticeable. He’d seen such looks before, whenever the guardians thought someone was overstepping their freedoms.

Did she actually know what had happened between him and the hound? Had she heard Tracker’s brazen mention of it last night? No, not then. Or at any other time, otherwise she would’ve been ranting about that, demanding she spend every second at Dylan’s side.

Nowhere alone. Constantly watched. His movements scrutinised. Each social interaction judged for the hidden meaning. Every smile. Every look. The punishment of the outed. It taunted him, even out here. He couldn’t run from it. Couldn’t rest for one moment without the threat of its clawed fingers wrapping around his neck.

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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