Robyn and the Hoodettes by Ebony McKenna

Author:Ebony McKenna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, adventure, young adult, folklore, fairtale
Publisher: Ebony McKenna

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The splintered remains of the Sheffield gates were long behind them. Robyn wasn’t even sure what road they were on, only that they were heading away from Maudlin.

“We’re lucky Roger and his men weren’t at the gate. We got off lightly.” Marion said.

Oh sod! Robyn had forgotten all about him. The man who’d caused all their troubles in the first place. She called out to Wilfred and Madge, “Stop the wagon. We have to turn around.”

“We are not going back to Sheffield!” Marion said.

“That’s right. We’re not,” Robyn said. “We’re going to Nottingham.”

His eyebrows shot up. “But that’s days away!”

Robyn nodded. “We have plenty of food to last us. I didn’t give it all away. But we need to get to the Sheriff of Nottingham and tell him what’s going on. Roger and his men are stealing in his name, trashing his reputation.”

“So we go all the way to Nottingham to tell the Sheriff what? That the people collecting his taxes are doing far too good a job of it?”

“Don’t argue with me!” Robyn was getting monumentally fed up with the way Marion kept blocking her like this. Her ideas were like a path through the forest and his interruptions felled trees across it.

“I will argue with you because you’re not making sensible plans.”

“Plans don’t work!” That red mist was back. “Plans only work when everyone goes along with it. And, hello, did you see what happened when I turned up to liberate everyone? They didn’t go along with it!”

“Stop fighting, you two,” Mother Eleanor butted in.

Both breathing hard, Marion dropped his voice low. “So now you’re saying we front up to Nottingham with no plan at all and expect him, an Earl, to go along with what we say?”

“I don’t know!” Robyn screamed at him.

“Then stop shouting at me because I’m only trying to help!”

Furious with herself and the world in general, Robyn made a guttural cry and flung her arms about. “Then everyone can stop looking to me for the answers because I don’t have any.”

Palms up in a ‘will you calm down you’re scaring the horses?’ motion, Marion said, “We’re looking to you because someone has to be in charge.”

“Fine! From now on, Joan is in charge.”

Shocked that she’d been drawn into the conversation, Joan said, “Why me?”

“Because . . . you’re the tallest!” Robyn leapt off the wagon and stormed off into the shrubbery at the side of the road. There she flopped down in a bed of fallen leaves. Arms around her knees, she rocked softly back and forth. It made comforting scrunching noises beneath her. Not enough to drown out the sound of approaching feet.

Marion sat down beside her. “Everything is going to be all right,” he said as he put his arm around her shoulder.

She shrugged him off. “How can it be? It’s been one horrible thing after another.”

The cool winds swirled the fallen leaves around their feet. Figuratively she loosened one of the constrictive bands around her heart. “I’m scared, Marion. I’m really scared.

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