Millitimed to about a day before Episode 1x09, locked to <lj site="livejournal.com" user="landlesslo

[queenofmay]

[Once upon a time Guy of Gisborne asked Marian to show him the lands surrounding Milliways. Sometime later, betwixt time leaps, through fault of depression, tenderness, lack of sleep or perhaps the strange concoction Bar made, Marian reminded him of that request.]

Marian had spent the last hour readying her horse, grateful that Caspian wasn't around that hour, and troubled at least firstly by the empty placard next to her stall reminding her that the horse, that she still thought of as her father's, still had no name except 'beautiful'.

She'd walked the grand beautiful lummox out to the field, all set up and was waiting for Sir Guy to magically appear so that they could go riding off alone. Between the two of them, she was the only one looking spooked as the horse just continued to eat the grass at her feet. Holding the reigns she waited quietly, not fidgeting with her dress and trying to ignore how so little a pretty ring could feel like so large a weight on her finger.

And, perhaps, just a little confused from their last interaction gone well.

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[queenofmay]

"It's lovely there, but at times I find it stuffy," she made a movement with her hand, and turned them so they were going between two large hills rising before them now.

"The crowds and chaos sometimes get to me, compared to the silence and spaced out villages back home. Out here you can just breathe more."

That sounded silly.

And once that thought passed, she was startled to find herself investing her own personally true thoughts in Guy of Gisborne of all people. Even if he did put his mother ring on her.

[landlesslord]

"I can understand that. It seems less like a gaol out here than it does inside, when you are trapped here." Though it was hope that had kept him inside before, when he was Bound. "And it seems at times that the populations of several villages are residing there."

"It is more peaceful out here."

The idea that so many people could 'get to' Marian near-astonished Guy. She was always so composed and serene on the surface.

[queenofmay]

And the so many things that got to her guy might never know, as she appeared serene even now with a thorn under her skin partially on her ride.

"It will never be home though," Marian said softly. "This could never replace Sherwood, or Nottingham."

She added the last two words hastily, not sure she wanted him to feel the full brunt of how truly she did love the forest back home. She really owed him no roads into her heart or her loves.

"But it is a nice place to visit through," she said nodding her head, so the horses turned right after the hills parted around them.

"We're almost to the stream."

[landlesslord]

"No." He looked at her and then at the world around them thoughtfully. "The air here tastes different, the light isn't the same."

And of course, her father was not here too.


"That is it." Half-smiling, he agreed. "A place to take a break from the duties and worries of home."

[queenofmay]

Marian felt skeptical of his worries comment, though she did hazard a small glance in his direction because of it.

Guy hardly seemed so worried about the pressures at home.....he was usually the one making the pressure on a problem.

"Here we are," she said with some triumph, distracting herself for the image of Guy being more human than he let on to.

The larger hills had parted on a bank of trees which clung together, swaying in the wind, and through them, hallowed in the glint of sunshine was the burbling stream she'd been talking about.

[landlesslord]

Guy halted and sat quietly for a moment, enjoying in the view, the whisper of the wind through the trees and the rush of the water.

The weight of his cares felt even less in this place than it did when he normally found himself forced to take a break from daily life in Nottingham.

[queenofmay]

Marian did truly feel an affinity for this land, though it would never be her true heart land, but she at the moment she was staring more furtive glances at Guy staring at it than truly taking it in herself.

He seemed at ease and to truly enjoy the site before him, which made her stomach do little confusing somersaults. And it seemed the only honest thing to comment on for the moment, so she looked outward toward it; keeping her voice soft.

"I'm glad you like it."

[landlesslord]

Guy turned to look at Marian. There was always something distant about her and he wondered if that would pass with time and with marriage.

"I'm glad you brought me here."