Robin Hood

Previously

…She’d left the manuscript, her notes, and a carefully folded map tucked into a hollowed-out log near the ancient oak where she’d last seen him. He’d taken the bait, the intelligence she’d painstakingly gathered, and now, the real test began. The Baron’s men, she knew, would be swarming the woods like ants on a dropped crumb, their heavy boots crushing the delicate moss, their crude shouts shattering the forest’s hushed symphony. From her vantage point, a discreet perch amongst the higher branches of a towering beech, she could see the first glimmers of their advance. A line of steel