Rainbow Snippets: Not steathly sailors

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 the previous snippet where Dylan and the group learnt the roadside destruction goes on as far as they can see…

“I don’t understand,” the hedgewitch continued in a more sedate tone as she joined them at the base of the hill. “If they caused this much destruction all along the way, why are we only now coming across it? Why not sooner? Why did they stop at the base of this hill?”

“Siege tactics,” Authril replied, shrugging. “No fire, no tents. Minimise all signs of precisely how big your horde is. It was one of Danny’s favourite strategies.” She rarely spoke of the mercenary company she’d been a part of before the army attack. Most times, it left her sullen, withdrawn and curt with everyone.

“Not an approach I would think Talfaltaners to know,” Tracker pointed out. “There are few structures to besiege out in the ocean and their ships, although reputably fast, are not exactly built to promote stealth in their sailors.”

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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