Rainbow Snippets: Left to rot…

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…

“How far are we going?” Even as he asked the question, the all-too-familiar buzz of flies reached his ears. The stench of decaying flesh assaulted his senses not long after. He covered his nose, his gaze darting Marin’s way to see her grimness had returned. What had she found out here?

His thoughts flashed to the destroyed tower wall. Had some spellsters escaped after all? Only to be hunted and left to rot out in the wilderness?

Marin jerked her head, indicating they climb a ridge just ahead. “We’re almost there. We’re lucky the wind’s changed since I found them. Smelt it long before now.” She lifted a branch out of their path, the leaves creating a screen above her. “Reckon they’ve been there a few days.”

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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