Robin had missed defending people that needed it. The carrige driver had been so cruel to Alice. And Robin hadn't been able to tell him what was wrong. She could have but it would have been a detriment to Alice who was already getting close to panicking. And so Robin was sitting in the market hoping the carriage driver would show up so she could tell him why he should have been nicer. Alice was at home with Zelena and Luna.
Robin couldn't believe her luck. She hadn't been there that long and the exact man she was waiting for was there.
"Hey! Jerkwad!."
The carriage driver only stopped because Robin had fired an arrow rather close to the front of his carriage awyas behind his horses' tails.
"You again?"
"Do you want to know why that girl wouldn't listen to you?"
The carriage driver couldn't have cared less but if it would get this child who was suprsingly good with a bow off his back?
"Fine, whatever."
"She thinks she needs permission to move. She was horribly treated up until a few months ago when my mom took her in. And she only listens to my mom. And it's terrafying. You completley ruined the first time she'd managed to get out of the house in her life. She was kept as a prisoner until my mom took her in. We don't know what all her so-called mother did to her. But she is teraffied of the world. She thinks anytime someone raises their voice she's going to wind up getting hurt. We'd finally gotten her to where she'd at least talk to us and the first time she'd asked to go somewhere you yelled at her. And she was doing what she thought she was told to do. Just be a little kinder."
The carriage driver listened in horror as Robin explained why Alice had been so reluctant to just get out of the road.
"I didn't know all of that. Any chance I can help?"
Robin shook her head. "No. You've done enough."
And with that Robin left the carriage driver to think about what he'd done.
