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Celandine's mother had passed away a few days later. There was a small funeral in her honor for the family as well as close friends. Many had gathered after the funeral from Locksley and other villages to place flowers on the fresh dirt mound. Robin had stood with Celandine watching from a nearby distance under a willow stood there watching under the swaying branches around them as the last of the people left and the rain started to drizzle. Robin shifted his gaze to the girl standing less then a few feet from him. He wanted to reach out to her, grab her tell her it would all be okay but he knew it wouldn't take the pain away. Instead he just stood there to support nearby. He walked her back home in silence. Her father had left nearly an hour ago along with his own parents.
When they reached the small cottage she lived in they stopped. Robin looked at her face as she stood staring at the cottage in the rain. Both soaked to the bone and he didn't care at all. All he wanted to do was make her laugh, be happy.
"I can't go in." She spoke after a moment turning to him. Her eyes were red as her tears mixed with the rain falling on them. He didn't say anything, he had no words to help her. She moved to him leaning her forehead on his chest and allowing him to hug around her thin frame. He felt her move as she sobbed into his chest. He let her stay there even as she hit her small fists into him. And when she was done he held her until she let go. Robin helped her inside and saw her father sitting at the table alone tears in his green eyes. Robin sighed and stood a moment before saying goodbye to the grieving family.
A year had passed and normalcy returned. The bulk of the grieving was gone and Celandine found work in Locksley to help her father. She become a maid for the manor but had not dared use her gifts of healing. Robin's father in order for him to learn a hard days work, had him working at the manor as well.
He often saw her there doing tasks as laundry or cleaning. Today she was down on her hands and knees a brush in her hands and a bucket nearby scrubbing the floor.
"Need some help?" Robin asked leaning down to her.
"Only if you wan't your fingers to prune and your clothes to be soaked." She replied smiling. The lord of the manor had always been kind to them and the others in the village but his employees always worked their hardest to impress.
"I don't mind." Robin sat and picked up a spare brush and began scrubbing the floor with her. Though the floor ended up clean but the pair had ended up soaked from having their own water fight in the process. The lord of the manor had walked out of his study to find them and only smiled before walking outside. The pair embarrassed stood and gathered the supplies used after cleaning the excess water. After their duties finished Robin made the effort to walk the girl home through the forest path.
He loved the forest. The trees, the smells, the animals, the sense of adventure that came with being in the wild wood. His eyes drifted from the scene around him to the girl walking in front of him. She reminded him of the forest. Celandine always, always, had green on her to match her eyes that matched the trees and ferns and other wild plant around them.