Rainbow Snippets: Just another ruin…

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…

The others turned at the sound. Both the hound and the warrior regarded the way with grim faces. Marin looked less stoic, but held her composure. It was the hedgewitch who clapped a hand over her mouth.

Steeling himself, he faced the sight.

He had looked back the once since leaving the tower to burn, just before they left the road yesterday evening. It had sat high above the tree tops, tendrils of smoke drifting alongside the clouds.

Now, that same sky sat empty of its silhouette. Fresh smoke billowed up to fill the space, the unburnt supports from the upper levels having fallen into the fire he started. The shell of what had been all he’d known of the world for almost three decades finally succumbing to its fate as another of Demarn’s ruins.

Dylan turned his back on it. He didn’t need more horror to fuel his nightmares.

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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