Gisborne
My last words.
'Marian…' I breathed. 'The love of my life.' I looked up at Robin Hood. I had to tell him I knew the truth—that I knew his sister had been right all along, even if I denied it back when she'd first said it: 'Give up, Gisborne! She belongs to another man. Even death will not change that!'
'And she was always yours,' I told Robin.
Then I was dead. I stood up from my body and looked down. Robin closed his eyes and then got up and shot out of the chamber. I felt the presence of another and turned. I saw Marian walk in through a wall. Marian seemed to know what had transpired since her death. She stopped in front of me.
'Thank you,' she said. 'For helping Robin. I suppose, in my life, I never really, truly believed you could be redeemed, Guy, but you have done so.'
I paused, collecting my thoughts before I answered. 'Thank you for trying, regardless. But your husband is dying. He will need you soon, Marian.'
'I know,' she told me. 'I am the guide of the March now and soon Robin will join me. The guide's job is to decide whom will go to Heaven and whom will go to Hell so we must know all that transpires in a person's life. I will be with him shortly, but I have a job to do beforehand.'
'Where will I go?' I asked.
'You redeemed yourself,' she said. 'You will go to Heaven.'
A light suddenly appeared and Marian gestured to it. 'Step in the light and you will be taken to Saint Peter.'
'Thank you.'
I stepped into the light and, as Marian promised, I was suddenly before a man dressed in white robes.
'Hm.' The man looked down at the parchment in front of him. 'Sir Guy of Gisborne. Now why did Lady Marian send you…? Oh. I see. That certainly is a powerful redemption. Welcome to Heaven.'
It was a relief for me to step through those gates.