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 further assured that the tower cats were unharmed…

Out into the forest. Where there was no shelter, no people to offer up scraps of meat or a warm lap. They’re not pets. Not the way those born outside the tower described them. The tower mousers were bred to hunt, to keep the rodent population from destroying the library and the food stocks. They’ll survive. If what Tracker said was true, if the Talfaltaners had left the cats alone, let them run free into the forest, then they would live.

A piece of the tower would live.

Tracker eyed him as if expecting Dylan to burst into flame. “If you are not well, we can do this another time.”

“No.” He lifted the sword once more. “You promised to teach me.” The sword refused to stop wobbling, the tip never quite swinging where he intended. Still, he tried to keep the length under his control. Gripping the hilt with both hands helped. “So, teach.” He raised the weapon and struck the same pose he’d seen Authril do.

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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