Rainbow Snippets: Blocking out the screams

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…

Without looking up, the hound’s actions briefly halted at Dylan’s approach before carrying on.

Dylan cleared his throat. “I want to take you up on your offer to train me. If it’s still on the table,” he quickly amended.

Tracker glanced up from the dagger, his hand unfaltering as he continued to sharpen the blade’s edge. “You already know how to fight. I remember how you handled those bandits.”

Dylan did, too. Even after trying to block out the memories.

The screams as his lightning hit. The death-spasms of their bodies. The charred remains left to rot, reminiscent of the countless dead they hadn’t been able to bury at the army encampment.

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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