Rainbow Snippets: Someone else’s tactics

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 debate whether sailors know how to besiege towers…

Authril’s shoulders lifted once more, this time, with an added air of indifference. The two elves hadn’t argued since the other day, but she often responded to the hound’s presence as though he was there only at her whim. “Clearly, I’m not as familiar with sea warfare as yourself.”

The hound’s brows lowered. “Warfare?” he echoed, the word practically a growl as it slipped between his clenched teeth. “If you had witnessed the aftermath of a merchant vessel against a Talfaltaner ship, you would not call it such. No more than you would claim the sea does battle with the shore.”

“Are you saying they’re a force of nature?” the warrior scoffed.

“I speak only of them striking with the same blunt inevitability. Not once have I heard of them exercising finesse. This tactic?” The man gestured to the stark difference between the top of the hill and their immediate surroundings. “I guarantee it was someone else’s idea. Whose? I cannot be certain. But I suggest we be extra vigilant from here on out. There is no telling what lies ahead.”

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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