Rainbow Snippets: A cold trail

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…

What stood before them was vastly different. The trees lining the road had either been stripped of their branches or felled completely. Where the earth hadn’t been trampled into a slurry by an onslaught of feet had instead been hacked open to make fire pits.

Marin knelt by one of them, her hand hovering over the broken ground before dipping deeper. The charred remains of a log jutted from that maw like a decaying tongue. She slapped her palm down onto the cracked charcoal surface, holding it there without a hint of harm. “This is days’ cold.”

“More than that,” Tracker said. The hound crouched by a similar hole, this one cracked and split as though struck by lightning. The jagged edges obscured whatever the man saw within. “I would put all this at no earlier than a week.”

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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