Rainbow Snippets: No Going Back

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 muses on certain member of their group’s refusal to have his magic help them…

His gaze slid from unravelling his tent to where Authril knelt, hacking out a spot in the earth for the fire. Her efforts had produced little beyond a shallow pit. His magic could’ve done the task faster and deeper, with less strain on him. She knew that, had witnessed it when he dug a hole for Marin to bury the boar’s innards, yet she didn’t seek his help.

He put his back to the sight, knowing full well Authril wouldn’t accept any assistance he offered, and returned to laying out his tent. Tracker, having already finished setting up his own shelter, currently aided Katarina with the enviable finesse of someone who’d spent their life travelling.

Dylan had spent years—decades—wondering what that was like. Night after night, he had wistfully watched the world beyond the tower, longing to walk this very road, to see the fields of Whitemeadow in bloom, to visit the cliffs at Wintervale and smell the sea air for the first time. And he would, in time.

He would’ve eagerly given up all those chances to return home with everything unchanged.

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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