Rainbow Snippets: A ploy, or not?

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 Tracker suggests they go somewhere private to practise swordsmanship…

Dylan followed the hound’s line of sight to where Authril eyed them over the beginnings of a fire. The bared length of her sword casually rested on the ground beside her. He had no doubts that she would object to him learning to use even the smallest blade in the hound’s arsenal.

“Come.” Tracker turned on his heel. “Let us see if we cannot find one of those smaller clearings.”

He stared at the man, unable to even close his jaw, for a few breaths. “Now?” Why was the hound so keen to begin this? Granted, Dylan felt stronger than the day he’d first asked, but he’d seen how much a sparring session could take out of a person. Surely, a meal and a little rest would be the way to go. “Weren’t you advocating for me to rest not that long ago?” Was forcing him to train so soon after the day’s travel some ploy to make him rethink the request?

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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