Robin watched the young girl who was sitting on the forest floor pouring over a map, he smiled as he remembered William with the same expression on his face, the eyes focused lapping up the lines and colours of the map, and the tip of a tongue poking out from the mouth in concentration.
Will came over and stood beside Robin "How long has she been doing that?" he asked after watching her for a few minutes
"All day" Robin smiled "She truly is her father's daughter"
Suddenly a rustling of leaves brought everyone to their attention; Djaq and Much came tearing into the clearing gasping for breath
"A carriage…on the north road" Much wheezed
"Ok men lets get going oh sorry Djaq" Robin smiled as her saw the look on the woman's face
Everyone jumped into action grabbing the necessary equipment and when Robin looked down at the young girl, her saw her eyes were no longer on the map but they were focusing on him, the colour of them always struck robin; they were a deep purple and almost hypnotising to look at, he walked over to her and crouched down beside her. He felt her body tense as he did this
"We're going come on" he said gently
"Where?" she asked curiously
"To serve justice" Robin grinned and Rosie cleared up her things and carefully tucked her Wind rose close to her body and followed him.
After a while they stopped and Robin led her behind a tree
"There" he pointed at a carriage being pulled by horse trotting gently through the peaceful forest and without a further thought Robin signalled to the others and they sprang into action.
Rosie stayed crouched behind a tree, her purple eyes surveying every move.
First of all Robin halted the carriage whilst the other men circled around it then he shouted something about saving the rich from themselves and he ushered everyone out of the carriage whilst the rest of his group searched them for riches, after a few minutes this bizarre activity was done and he sent the carriage on it's way.
Robin sprinted up the hill towards Rosie grinnig "Well what do you think?"
"That was unmoral"
"We're helping the poor"
"Yes but you really didn't need to be that rough with them" Rosie frowned
"A bit of roughness never hurt anyone"
"Robin of Locksley you are the single most arrogant, egotistic, conceited man I have ever met you are also stupidly over confident" she sighed and Robin laughed as the girl walked off into the forest
Later on at the camp Robin was searching through the goods they had got from that days raid, he found money which he stored in a tree trunk along with the jewels and silks they would later use to help the poor. He then came across a few roles of parchment and as he unrolled them he gasped.
"Am I right?" he asked as Rosie poured over the maps
"I'm afraid so there's no mistaking the mark"
"What's wrong" asked Much
"These maps bear the symbol of the black knights" Rosie sighed
"What does that mean?"
"This means that the black knights have got hold of the mapmakers who made them maps the king uses in the holy lands and this means they'll know where he's going to land" Rosie sighed
"How can you tell?" Much asked
Rosie pointed to the first scroll "the map is written in scarlet ink and uses a phoenix wind rose which is the marking of the explorer John of stoke, this one uses intricate lettering and a star wind rose which is the marking of the mapmaker Richard of Essex and this one…"
"What's wrong" Robin asked
"Uses my wind rose" Rosie sighed
"I don't understand"
"If they have my marking, then they have my father's work which means they have all his secrets and if the black knights are transporting them to the Sheriff then we're all in trouble"
"What should we do?"
"We need to get them back" Robin said with a sudden tone of fierceness
As Robin launched into setting a plan Rosie looked at her fathers map and sighed, this was not good news and she dreaded what was going to happen to her
