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Robin and his new young friend Much, ran quickly to their spot in the forest: a fallen tree that arched across a small river.
Robin jumped up onto the branch and motioned for Much too fallow.
"Robin," He sighed, "Should we really be climbing on it? The river is much faster, and the bark is still wet from all the rain." Much whined standing near the roots.
Robin paused his climb and stared back at his friend, "Much. Its fine!" The eight year old stated, "We have climbed up here at least a hundred times this summer."
"Not after it has rained Robin!" Much petitioned, " Please just climb back down and we can go do something else."
"No!" Robin climbed to the top and stood, the bark was slippery yet not enough to stop Robin. He looked around checking his surroundings when something caught his eye. A girl standing only half hidden behind one of the oak trees. She had brown waving hair, and green eyes. How had they not seen her get so close? He thought. Suddenly Robin's foot slipped causing him to fall off the log and into the cold water.
"Robin!" Much screamed from the shore. The water was deeper than Robin thought as he tried to touch the bottom. The current stronger than usual pulling him down the river quickly. He could swim well, but not well enough to stay afloat now. His head continuously went under.
The little girl ran over too the rivers edge and stared across at Much. Before he could say something she took off in the opposite direction. Much rand down the edge of the river and tried to find something for his friend to grab hold of. There! A stick long enough for Robin to reach. He located his friend and tried to yell for him to grab hold, but Robin couldn't hear him.
Seconds later the little girl was back with a man fallowing her. She pointed at Robin in the water and said something. Soon enough the man was jumping in. He could easily swim against the current being much stronger than the young boy stuck in it. The man lifted Robin up and began to swim with him over to the edge. The man heaved Robin's now limp body out before pulling himself out after. The little girl ran over to Robin's body and sat in the grass next to him. She looked up wide-eyed at the man. He said something to her before picking Robin's body up and running in the direction he came from. The little girl stood and looked at much across the river.
"Where is his father!" She yelled at him.
"In Locksley!" Much replied.
The girl ran back upstream to cross the log which Robin had fallen from. She crawled slowly across clutching the bark as not to slip like the boy had. She ran over to Much and nodded quickly, "Take me too him! I can lead you to my house."