Rainbow Snippets: An Unintentional Shielding

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 feelings put Tracker and himself in an ice shield…

“I…” He fought for speech, his tongue unable to form anything beyond a few garbled sounds. Even those scattered as he faced the man. Instead, he fumbled to dispel both the shield and the ice it had formed.

The whole time, Tracker continued to wordlessly watch him, those honey-coloured eyes boring deep. Concern drew his brows together. Was he reconsidering their journey? Their goal? His task as a hound?

Dylan didn’t know what to say. He hadn’t meant for his shield to form, but admitting that would mark him as unpredictable. Dangerous. To everyone around him.

“Am I right in thinking you would still like to learn swordsmanship?”

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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