Good afternoon, Snippetteers! — I sincerely hope it’s warmer where you are than it is where I am. My snippet for this week is from my work in progress, UNDERATOW (SoulShares #7). In this passage (seven sentences, again, an extra one for luck), Rhoann is swimming around his temporary home in Central Park, in seal form, trying to figure out what’s going on in his head. And other places. Rhoann’s lived alone for most of his life, and he’s been perfectly happy that way. But meeting Mac has been the catalyst for changes he doesn’t understand…
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Desire was supposed to make a Fae stronger. It was making Rhoann confused.
Other strange emotions were rising in him as well, like deep-water dwellers rising out of the heart of the Domhnacht Rúnda, where nothing had lived until their rising. Being around Conall, and the other Fae and their humans, put Rhoann on edge, made him uneasy. But being with Mac was different. As much as Rhoann’s newly-awakened desires made him feel a stranger to himself, Mac’s presence was also… comfortable. Comforting.
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Links for the week —
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Rory Ni Coileain 
Poor Rhoann, his discontent comes through well.
Ooh, that was interesting. I love the metaphor of the emotions rising like deep-water dwellers. It just adds to the whole other worldly tone. I like Rhoann.
This line sums up his inner turmoil so brilliantly:
“newly-awakened desires made him feel a stranger to himself”
Those few lines portrayed his confusion very well.
I love his confusion. Poor Fae, he still doesn’t quite know what he is in for 🙂
I’m trying to give more of an idea of what it actually is to be a SoulShare, too, that it’s more than just meeting someone and falling in lust. 😉
You can really feel his uncertainty here, and how many things are unsettling him. Nicely done.
Poor guy. He’s so obviously uncomfortable right now. You can feel the tension rising, and the risk that it could drive him in the wrong direction.