The new season eventually came, and it wasn't keen to the now-former hero of Sherwood: everyone have cheered him after he survived the ultimate, terrifying confrontation with Guy of Gisbourne, and everyone was there to celebrate his birthday on that August ; but exactly one month after, autumn was creeping in, and the enthusiasm around him was becoming lukewarm, if not completely waning: after all, once he practically disappeared from the public, faking his own death and abiding to this new, rather extreme form of dressing-up, the authorities had eased their hands on the "peasantry", the commoners; and many of them had started retrospectively seeing his actions not as heroic, but rather as something aggravating to their yet difficult condition.
By now, only three people were of some comfort to Robin Hood: his longtime friend Little John, which still have remained to his side throughout these tragic, troubled years; Mother Bunny, which was regularly bringing them food and some welcomed company; and Friar Tuck, which came to celebrate Mass and bring the Communion in secret. Everyone else in Nottingham was keeping the masquerade; but more to avoid troubles with the authorities rather than in respect to the one their formerly saw as a hero, and now was seen, if not as a nuisance, as some sort of a troublemaker; and not just to himself and the loved ones, but to everyone around him: the less he was talked about, the better.
Even Skippy, formerly his number one admirer, which always had wanted to take his mantle once grown up, after having seen all what Robin went through decided to give up everything about it: he threw away the hat, the arrows and the bow he was given as a present by "The Hood" himself, settled to return being a farmer like his parents and looking for a suitable doe in the village and its proximity: better being an average bunny, living a quiet and untroubled life, than risking of all the tragedies, sorrows and losses his former idol had suffered.