Rainbow Snippets: Quiet beginnings…

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With And the World Crumbled releasing March 23rd, I’ve moved on to the next book in the Spellster and the Hound series, In Love and Death.
Set directly after the events of In Pain and Blood some snippets will contain spoilers. And, if you’ve ever read the old version of IPaB, you may find a few things are similar, but a lot has changed.

Starting at the very beginning with Tracker’s pov on the night after leaving the spellster tower…

The campsite was quiet, save for the odd rustle beneath the bushes and the faint coo of a distant owl. It wasn’t enough to ease Tracker’s mind. The enemy was out there, somewhere. Ahead of them, certainly, but they’d no reliable way of knowing precisely how far.

It was for that very reason their group had abandoned the road. They hadn’t gone too deep into the wilderness, but Talfaltaners were seafaring folk, any foray they made into the forest would be noisy. Vastly more so than having them creeping up on their group camping on the roadside.

I’ll see you all with more from In Love and Death next week. In the meantime, check out these other snippets.