Rainbow Snippets: A Needed Distraction

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’s remembering the night he shared with Tracker…

He needed something else to distract him. But what? A scan of their camp showed little left he could assist in without also getting in the way. Training, then. The others were clearly doing their best to avoid any conflicts, but they also travelled in the same direction as the horde that took out the tower. Meeting those who meant them harm had to be inevitable. They needed to be ready.

And he needed to be capable of fending off an opponent without the use of his magic, be his inability due to lack of energy or even being leashed again.

His neck tingled at the memory of the cold metal wrapping around it, the iciness leeching into his mind, the world drained of any vibrancy. Sharper still was the recollection of pain, pinpricks of fire and lightning assaulting his flesh whenever he tried to use magic unsanctioned.

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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