Rainbow Snippets: The Three Ds

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 blames himself for being able to save anyone…

Unruly. That was a more apt description of himself. Disorderly. Disobedient. Disruptive. Observations repeated by so many. The overseers who forced him to fight in the brawl or die because he had disobeyed. The sergeant who had sent him to the front line when he had only wanted to heal the wounded. The warden who had promised a short existence of abuse no matter how he followed orders.

“We are feeling poorly, yes?”

Dylan stiffened, the hound’s words jerking him back into the present. Both them and the tent stood inside the sphere of his shield. The surface had hardened, shifting whorls of ice coating the outside. I hadn’t even noticed. In its most basic form, a spellster’s shield reacted on instinct, the desire to keep out what was likely to do a person harm. But he should’ve been aware.

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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