Rainbow Snippets: No one close by

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 where the sailors learnt to besiege towers…

“There’s no way around?” Katarina asked. She rummaged about in her many pouches, pulling out the old map she had claimed possession of back at the army encampment. “A farmer’s road? Hunting trails?”

“Not this close to the tower,” Tracker replied, the statement surprisingly backed up by an agreeing grunt from Authril, reluctant as it was. “No one lives this close. We will not even see farmland for several more days.”

“Then we should stop wasting daylight and move on,” Marin declared, taking the lead in marching down the road.

Having no other choice, the rest of them followed.

They continued until the afternoon had barely begun to wind down before abandoning the road to press further into the forest than they’d done the previous two evenings. With their surroundings looking as though they had never accommodated visitors so far from the roadside, it took a while to find somewhere that held enough space for everyone.

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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