Kismet

It was down that road from Antipathy, that the pretenders jogged. With tools of torture, and the most modern of weaponry, Richard's emissaries rattled their way into the busy town, seeking out the Hode and his company.

Hode's enthralment with the Lady Marian had sorely bruised the King's sensibilities. He was fired to the point of making his view now known; and had sent the party of assassins all the long way into Italia, to either capture or kill this fickle adversary in love.

The politics between them had always been taut ... 'til this episode the one had tolerated the other. Richard, of course, did not understand any of the Fay, and had no mind to realize just who Hode was beneath his daily enterprise.

Hode had forgotten all, when seeing Marian as he had. It was an ancient memory that had swept over his commonsense, and he longed to be able to share this with her.

Did she know him, or of him? And why now, why here? He believed in Kismet, and would not allow the King get in the way of it.

The continuum of love persists …


-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances