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 assures Dylan that the tower cats were unharmed during the tower attack…

“They would never harm a cat. Such creatures are sacred to them.”

That knowledge gave only a small measure of comfort. Being slaughtered by wicked people wasn’t the only way they could’ve died. “I burnt the place to the ground.” He stared off in the direction of the tower. With them days away and surrounded by tall trees, he wouldn’t have seen his home even if it hadn’t collapsed. “Do you think I—?”

“No.” The gruff certainty in the man’s voice had Dylan facing him once more. “Like I said, they would have fled into the surrounding forest.” He frowned thoughtfully. “It is possible the Talfaltaners claimed some as their own in the name of rescuing them from evil, but the most you would have done is scorch a few rodents. The rest would have fled.”

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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