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 offers to teach Dylan swordsmanship…

The man’s question had Dylan’s brows climbing to their highest. After being reminded how the army didn’t allow spellsters to learn any other weapon beyond their magic, he hadn’t bothered to speak with Authril about training. Tracker had brought up that very point and Dylan had assumed the man agreed, but he also hadn’t said as such.

Wetting his lips, he searched for the right words that would leave him sounding adamant without seeming desperate.

“Does the silence mean no?”

“No. I mean, yes. That is—” He clapped a hand over his mouth, physically restraining himself before his babbling talked Tracker out of teaching him. “I want to learn,” he finally managed. “I take that to mean you’ve changed your mind?”

“That would be difficult to do when I had not given you a solid response in the first place. I am open to teaching you, but not here. Not in front of them.”

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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