Death came for Robin much slower than he’d predicted.
He was supposed to go quick and fast in his youth, struck by foes with a laugh on his tongue, or peacefully in his elder days, surrounded by his lady love and the family they’d built. He would either feel nothing or see it coming.
It wouldn’t be this—long, painful breaths scraping through his lungs, whispering into the wet summer air.
Trust Gisborne to give a man a long death, not brave enough to deliver a swiftly killing stroke. Robin cursed the man with words he did not have the air to speak. And when he felt himself slipping away, clutched against the weeping form of Marian, he thought, I would have at you, sir.
Tabi Card [she/her] adores fictional worlds a little too much, writes a little less than she probably should, and definitely doesn't spend enough time sleeping. She is an aficionado of many things, but her first love will always be fantastical stories with angsty characters. While waiting for her next adventure, she lives in Florida.
Men In Tights meets The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue with a splash of angsty feels.
sort-of blurb / prologue:
'The story you know begins from the end . . .
Death came for Robin much slower than he’d predicted.
He was supposed to go quick and fast in his youth, struck by foes with a laugh on his tongue, or peacefully in his elder days, surrounded by his lady love and the family they’d built. He would either feel nothing or see it coming.
It wouldn’t be this—long, painful breaths scraping through his lungs, whispering into the wet summer air.
Trust Gisborne to give a man a long death, not brave enough to deliver a swiftly killing stroke. Robin cursed the man with words he did not have the air to speak. And when he felt himself slipping away, clutched against the weeping form of Marian, he thought, I would have at you, sir.'
Things this will have:
- Robin Hood as a ghost & central character - sassy dialogue - ace Will Scarlet - a hilarious twist on the famous archery contest - angst - romance - lots and lots of sass