I wake with thoughts of him clouding my head. He speaks softly in my dreams and whispers my name gently as I replay the scene over and over in my head and smiled. I opened my eyes to find him leaning against my bedpost, watching me with interest. "What are you doing in my bedroom! Without any consent as well! I have a good mind to summon my father!" I spoke the words with an angry voice to conceal my secret pleasure at his visit. He shrugged and wandered to the window, leaping out and grabbing the wood above it, positioning his hands to lift himself up on to the roof. "What are you doing?" I quizzed as I leapt from the bed in my nightdress and I peered out, moving back the shutters of the window before me. "You wish me to leave, and I shall go." He said, letting go and sitting on the windowsill as I stepped back. "Unless, you would rather me stay?" He said teasingly, leaning back into my room. I could not help but smile as I bent down to join our lips. "Now I insist you leave, as my father will be coming to see me any moment." He reached out to grab my hand as I began to walk away. He brought it to his lips and I smiled as he kissed it with ease and moved swiftly out the window and back into the forest.
I sighed as a messenger arrived at the door. Guy requested my presence at the mines. I grumbled insults as I dressed in plain outfit and left in the carriage he had sent for me. Guy offered me his hand as I stepped out of the carriage the glum look on my face dissolving as I was to be shown off as his prize today, and for the many to come. This depend my sadness and annoyance, as I was lead behind a large wooden panel with a small window looking out towards the mines. The Sheriff sat on his horse and rolled his eyes at their speech, much to the annoyance of Guy and the man who stood next to him. I took some comfort in this, but it was defused when Guy walked toward me with a large grin on his face. "This is my project, Marian." He whispered in my ear, as my face remained in the minutes to pass, he continued in a dark, forceful tone "Are you not pleased for me?" I managed back, "I am, very. I am just tired is all." He raised his eyebrows at me, but he forgot that, as we were warned to step back.
The sight before me erupted in smoke and all that was left was a black pit of dust and stones. Embers were fading in to the black pit as the Sheriff walked among them, shaking the man's hand as he rejoiced in the smoke and dying flames. Guy stood with them and grinned widely until the man spoke something and then all fell silent as the argument began. I stepped out from behind the wooden screen as the man ran into the forest and back out again. The Sheriffs men surrounded him and took him away. I hate to think where. He has information he is withholding from them and he will brake under torture, everybody does. I shudder at the thought of the terrible pain he must endure. I have found his name, Lambert. Guy has mentioned him before, but it is strange I did not think much of him until now. Guy is upset at the fact of the loss of his project. They call it 'Greek Fire'.
Lambert has the ledger hidden away and is to destroy it so that the Sheriff and Guy do not use it as a weapon. If Greek Fire were to fall into their hands, it would be the end of Robin and the end of Nottingham itself. Robin was aware of the danger, and sent a Much to get arrested and brought to the dungeons, as to rescue Lambert. I have seen the concerns laid out by Guy, and I told him I would help him get Lambert out Nottingham and to a place of safety. As Lambert is his friend, he has agreed and I have asked for the help of Robin. He was hard to persuade at first, but I have convinced him. It is decided that I am to go to the Council of Nobles, with the new, Lord Much. I giggled at this. How ridiculous! But this will help in our quest for the ledger. We must protect Lambert, whatever the cost. I am off to the council.
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