Summer Rain

by FFAMasquerade2005

I played along for old times' sake and had said in the loudest voice I could muster that "I was the Great Maid Arianna with her faith full steed and fighting alongside her husband Robin of Locksley and his merry men."

3. Mean

3/25/1208

I write to you in fear my friend, the Kings right hand man, Mark, who is also a spy for me, has told me that the King suspects me of being unfaithful to him, and has started to question some of my maids and other attendants. This is a very delicate accusation, because whatever the King says is law, if he says I am guilty then I will be beheaded, just as Anne Boleyn was. You my friend who are reading this may or may not know the story of Anne Boleyn so I will give you the short version of her story. Anne Boleyn was the second wife of King Henry the VIII, she was born historians believe 1501 and died April was an important figure in history because of her the Church of England and Rome separated, bringing the Church of England under the Kings rule. The short story there is that the Roman Catholic Church would not grant King Henry a divorce from his Queen Consort Catherine, and excommunicated Henry because he decided to marry Anne Boleyn anyways. Historians believe that the accusations were false, and lacked evidence.

So my friend this is why I am frightened, for as you well know the King's word is law, I have no rights as a women, if I was a man it might be slightly different. If I do not tread carefully my life will be no more, and I will never see Robin again, my one true love. The King has also been paranoid recently and is letting his temper get the better of him; I pity the soul who gets caught in his wrath. I believe his is paranoid because his mother, Queen Elanor of Aquitaine, has been rumored to have escaped her castle where she was under house arrest. She has been against Johns reign from the start, and she publicly denied and refused to call her son a King. John could not outright kill his own mother during such a crucial time, and therefore put her under house arrest with a salary that one person could barley live on. John's temper might also be due to the fact that during a public outing he fell off his horse, and now his pride is hurt, and instead of admitting that he fell off he blamed it on his groom and had the poor man beheaded.

I tried asking, as to how the King came upon this idea, but Mark could not tell me. I am to be seen and not heard where ever I go, especially in the presence of the King. I am nothing but arm candy, and I know that if I were with Robin, he would treat me as his equal and never abuse me. But until I get to the bottom of this I must be very careful in how I behave and appear.