Rainbow Snippets: Isolated

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 day drifted on much the same as yesterday. Silence lingered over the group, what had been awkward quiet now tensing with each passing hour. Authril led the way, although there wasn’t any chance of anyone getting lost with a solid route stretched before them.

He wished the road carried more than themselves to their destination, but they encountered not a soul. He’d grown used to the bustle of others, the carts that trundled along, others on foot trudging just as earnestly as they, the few on horseback who looked down upon the rest. He supposed there wasn’t much call for farmers or merchants out in the middle of nowhere.

That was where his home had stood. Isolated. He recognised that now. Remote in a way that people could forget the spellsters who had once walked amongst them.

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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