Rainbow Snippets: Almost idyllic

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.

With last week’s snippet being the final of chapter one, and me trying to finish In Love and Death before the end of the month, we’re moving on to chapter two…

Two days. That was how long they’d travelled with no further signs anyone else had recently trod the same road. Everything was quiet. Idyllic. Dylan could almost forget the destruction they’d left behind.

Yet, he couldn’t shake the sight of Marin and Tracker emerging from the forest. The grim lines etching their faces. The talk of dead bodies. Their insistence of breaking camp and setting up elsewhere, never mind that it would leave half of them fumbling about in twilight.

They hadn’t spoken much about the incident since. When Dylan pressed the hound, the man confessed the bodies weren’t from the tower. Whilst the knowledge crushed the dim hope Dylan had of people escaping the slaughter—for even if these people hadn’t made it, knowing some had breached the outer wall meant others might’ve been more successful—it didn’t answer where they’d come from.

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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