Welcome to this week’s Rainbow Snippet! *winks* Just had to give a little bit of a shout-out to one of my personal heroes, the Notorious RBG.
This week’s Snippet goes all the way back to the beginning of UNDERTOW, the first time Rhoann sees Mac. Mac’s in the ruins of Purgatory, which is where Lucien was injured (Lucien was the head bouncer at the club, before it was destroyed at the end of MANTLED IN MIST, and Mac was the lead bartender); he’s just found the duffel bag Lucien used to keep a change of clothes in, and he’s in tears over a t-shirt he found in the bag. “Feel safe at night – sleep with a Marine.” And Rhoann is watching from hiding.
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The scent of salt water, human tears, struck Rhoann like the crash of a storm-wave.
“Lucien…” The human’s voice broke.
Rhoann watched, rapt, heedless of his own tears. Wanting to heal the human’s heart. But that was no Fae desire, and no Fae could give the gift of such a healing.
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And, as always, a couple of links for you!
Rainbow Snippets on Facebook, for more LGBTQIA+ goodies — https://www.facebook.com/groups/RainbowSnippets/
And WOLF, BECOMING — where mythic fantasy meets modern Russia — http://ow.ly/4nhmV8
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And, finally, a look at my muse for Mac. Mac is, of course, older than the amazing BT Urruela (and I claim no copyright in this images, that would be the equally amazing Michael Stokes) — but apart from a few years’ difference in age, this is definitely how I picture Mac. Enjoy!
You can feel the tension and concern… nice snippet 🙂
Very emotional for such a short snip! 🙂
How mysterious, yet beautiful!
I love all your soul share couplings. Can’t wait to read this one.
You can feel the tension. Always good to have an image in mind.
This one is tense bordering on tragic, well done.
Beautiful emotion, and I liked the way Rhoann’s non-human perspective framed it.
I’m really liking Rhoann. So much emotion here, from both of them.
Very emotional scene. (I remember the scene with the duffel bag.)
Oh, and BT is one of my favorite Michael Stokes’ models.
Lovely, emotional snippet. (and great pictures!)