Sherwood Shenanigans, Part III of III

[queenofmay]

It takes all her will power not to run. Every faintly quickened, but not running, step toward her room. Which she knows anyone she passes will take as her running away from the Sheriff's hands. When it is far more directed in running to.

To the door of her room, which she locked without slamming. To the pile of clothes hidden under her mattress, the candles not even lit. To her Night Watchman costume, which goes on, as the dress gets thrown on the bed. It could be dealt with later. Coiling her hair quickly, as her mask dangled from a strap between her pressed lips. Her hair might end up far more knotted, but that could be dealt with later, too.


Then Marian was back at her door, beginning to push the mask up past her chin, as she looked down the dark hallway to the left.

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[the_seafarer]

He really is terrible at sneaking.

Still, what is amusing when Amy is teasing him is less so when it becomes a matter of life and death as he attempts to find his way around an unfamiliar castle.

The girl had assured him that Marian's rooms are here, but he's wary of the long stretch of corridor between him and the door that had been pointed out as hers.

There's nothing for it; he starts forward, close to the wall, every nerve alight and hypersensitive. A motion -- he startles -- the door opens, and a dark figure strides through, before glancing away from him.

He frowns.

Whispered: "Marian?"