Rainbow Snippets: A lack of signs

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…

Yet, things still didn’t quite add up. Tracker had spoken the truth about fighting with blades. It was messy. And messy left signs. If they had survived enough to avoid immediate death, then maybe not the dark marks that wouldn’t fully seep into the compacted earth that was the road.

But what of their wagon? The road might’ve been hard under his boot and baked by the sun, but surely a carthorse or a laden wagon would be enough to make a more substantial impression of their passing. The road’s surface showed not a single mark, be it foot, hoof or wheel.

At least, it hadn’t until they crested a hill at noon.

He’d never seen an armed force larger than a few people before leaving the tower. The army encampment had merely been a town of tents, its placement for generations moulding its surroundings, expanding slowly as the surrounding forest was culled to serve as fuel for the multiple fires.

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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