Marian's Rainbow
Red: This is the color of blood. She goes on her first hunt and shoots the stag with her arrows. Its blood covers the ground. She still has guilt-ridden nightmares over it.
Orange: The color of the sunset when she understood she would marry Robert. He was rich, he was kind, he loved her, and she had no particular objections.
But she didn't really want to.
Yellow: The color of the buttercup he gives her, the day before he leaves. He doesn't say anything, but smiles, and a part of her (the part that wants stability and someone to adore it) wishes he would never leave.
The part of her that loves archery and riding and the hunt, that wants adventure and romance, that part screams for him to go.
Green: The new leaves on the trees as she rides through the wood in spring, alone.
She wishes now that she had refused to let him go, thrown a fit, not told him (as a dutiful wife should) to do as he must. Anything not to be so alone.
Blue: The color of the water that runs by in the stream. Sometimes she wants to jump into it and leave it all behind.
Indigo: She is sinking into darkness, slowly but surely. When indigo becomes black, the stream will become her grave.
Violet: Robin brings light back into her life.She never thought of herself as queenly, but he wraps her world in violet: the color of royalty and happiness and the end of troubles. He does not press her with words, with tokens of affection and gifts, but with equality and sturdiness, and unconditional love.