This is my snippet this
week for SFFSat. SFFSat is a
place where a number of authors post snippets from their written
works, and give the opportunity for comments, support and encouragement.
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My
snippet this week is from Sorrel in Scarlet. My eponymous pilot
heroine has been captured by graalur (orcs, effectively), who are
occupying a farmhouse.
We were going into the kitchen, and I
was hungry again. If they were going to
give me breakfast it might be worth being captured. I glanced around
at the graalur with the sword at my back and said "Breakfast?"
in a querying tone of voice, this time in lloruk. Of course, most
likely they couldn't speak lloruk. My old school reckoned that
knowing the lloruk tongue was a sign of erudition and good breeding.
These were evidently erudite, well-bred
graalur. The one with my sword replied harshly in clear, recognisable
lloruk "Not for you. Walk!"
All right, so they were evil,
erudite, well-bred graalur.
Comments and brickbats welcome!
Heh...considering being captured, that would have been my first assumption (the evil part)...good stuff. :-)
ReplyDeleteSorrel recognises soldiers just doing their job - it's when they deny her food they become monsters!
DeleteHaha! Fun stuff!! Can't wait to read this. And yes, it's always handy to know a second language. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I was thinking of something akin to Latin or Greek, and then Sorrel discovers ten years afterwards there is actually a use for it.
DeleteFun stuff. Anything for breakfast.
ReplyDeleteThanks! She does get her breakfast, I might add!
DeleteEvil AND well-bred, a deadly combination. :D
ReplyDeleteI hope the narrator isn't going to BE breakfast!
ReplyDeleteFortunately, while the graalur are twisted and nasty, they aren't quite that hungry...
DeleteLove that last line! I'm a big fan of humor in desperate situations.
ReplyDeleteSorrel tends to use humour when she's in trouble... which is quite a lot of the time.
DeleteI love the use of humor here as well. The last line is fantastic. It's good to keep your humor and wits about you in dire situations.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Sorrel tries to keep a sense of humour.
DeleteThis snippet made me laugh out loud with the last line. And I am in total agreement with your heroine that if they're going to give her breakfast, being captured is worth it. The fact that they don't, however, makes me think she may look for fun and creative ways to kick their butts....
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed it - Sorrel does manage to get breakfast out of them eventually!
DeleteLol, well-bred is clearly no guarantee of goodness. :-P
ReplyDeletePrecisely! Glad you enjoyed the snippet!
DeleteSo well bred doesn't equal good manners! Great snippet :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'm afraid I've had the misfortune to encounter more than one supposedly well-bred person with appalling manners - perhaps I'll start calling them graalur...
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