Rainbow Snippets: Let the training begin

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 wonders if Tracker’s suggestion to go somewhere private to practise swordsmanship is a ploy to have him drop the idea…

Tracker peered over his shoulder, the gleam of those honey-coloured eyes just visible beneath the russet lashes. “You wish to learn to defend yourself without relying on magic before we reach Wintervale? You will start now.” He smiled. “Do not worry, I promise to be gentle.” With that, the man vanished behind a tree, leaving Dylan to follow.

They walked through the forest until reaching one of the clear patches they had encountered on their way in. Even to Dylan’s inexperienced eye, the area was too small and uneven to hold three tents without hacking away a great deal of bush or felling one of the enormous trees. But it looked large enough for the basic sparring techniques he had witnessed the soldiers doing at the army encampment.

The hound circled the area, mumbling to himself and nodding. Occasionally, he would kick aside a cone or toss a heftier branch nearer the bushes. “This will do for today.”

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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