In Pain and Blood is back to play this month as I try to finish up the remaining scraps.
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For now, my dear Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sunday Folk, here’s another teaser.
Blurb: When a routine inspection goes awry, Dylan is left unleashed and alone. Afraid he’ll become prey for the King’s Hounds, he struggles to make his way back to the only safety he’s ever known. Or is it?
This one is near the omg point, where he finds out what really happened to his home…
Sulin eyed the other man’s dagger, his brow furrowing. The purple blade gleamed in the leaf-broken light. Could he place who it had belonged to? “You should not have that,” he growled, his coastal accent—a slightly deeper one to Tracker’s, now he heard the pair together—thickened with each word.
Tracker grinned. “Are you going to take it from me?” The way he spoke, the hushed threatening note rolling through the words, sent an altogether too pleasant shiver down Dylan’s back.
“Stop.” Dylan pulled himself free of Nestria’s grip and planted himself between the two elves. “No one is stabbing anybody.”
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Aldrea Alien 
Spoilsport – we were looking forward to a good stabbing! 😉
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*snicker* I’d say they weren’t in any real danger what with him being a healer, but cuts by those daggers can’t be healed…
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Ooo, steamy!
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🙂
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Love that shiver! 🙂
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😀
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I’m going to take a wild guess and say that In Pain and Blood isn’t a comedy, right?
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No. It’s currently earning its title, too. Sometimes, I’m tempted to add “sweat and tears” because this behemoth almost wasn’t due to my own stupidity of not backing up files.
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Ouch. I think I’ll go back up my files.
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Great scene. I could feel the tension.
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Thank you. 🙂
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Interesting scene … you described the voice very well 🙂
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Thank you. 🙂
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Tense scene, interesting details about the voices and the accents. Enjoyed the excerpt!
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I don’t think I’ve ever had a character who demands the description of accents more than Dylan does. It must be the linguist in him.
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Love the voice descriptions and the last line made me giggle.
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He’d never admit it, but he has a thing for coastal accents (which I envision as Spanish).
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Great scene with lots of action.
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Thank you.
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Definitely a tense situation, and a great ending! 😀
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🙂 Thanks.
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All sorts of good stuff tumbling around in this scene! Can’t wait to find our what happens!
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Nobody gets stabbed? Physically, anyway.
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I wouldn’t want to get in the middle of that!
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Nor would I.
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Great bit of dialogue, and no stabbing. Yet!
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Yes. We’ll keep the stabbing for later…
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Ooo really liked this exchange.
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Thank you. 🙂
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I don’t think Dylan can really stop them if they want to fight.
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Heh. Possibly not.
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Great descriptions. Love that last line.
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Thank you. 🙂
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