An Orphan Worth Fighting For

Better Line of Defence

  "Natasha, we need to talk." Robin said some time after the two people from the ball left.

  I wondered what it was he needed to talk to me about as he figured me towards him. I walked over to him cautiously semi suspicious about it. Once I stopped in front of him as he towered over me, he gave me a bow.

  "I'm confused. You need to explain more." I said looking at Robin with confusion.

  "You need a weapon other than daggers for your line of defense. Not that using daggers isn't useful, but you also need something a bit larger to use." Robin explained.

  I looked at the bow and took it. It looked a lot more nice than everyone else's bow in the camp. After looking at it for about thirty seconds I started wondering where the sheath was. I looked at Robin half expecting to turn around to grab that. Much tapped my shoulder which startled me and made me turn around to face him. After I took a deep breath, Much gave me the sheath.

  "Thank you. So who's idea was this to give me a bow anyway?" I asked not to anyone specific.

  "Who's idea do you think crazy kid?" Robin said.

  I almost expected Robin to say something like that.

  "Ok which one of you block-heads saw me throwing my daggers for practice?!" I asked as I saw everyone shake their heads.

  They didn't seem to know what to say. Regardless that no one seemed to be saying anything, I was pretty happy that someone decided to give me a weapon other than my daggers, but it made me feel guilty at the same time that my bow looked nicer than everyone else's. I was curious what it took to get this bow to look so nice.

  "Well since was given a bow, who's going to teach her how to shoot?" Much asked.

  "Robin is!" everyone else in the camp except Robin said as they pointed at him.

  "Wait why me?" Robin asked surprised right after Much's question was answered.

  "Oh let me see, you paid someone to make the bow intended for our youngest member, it only makes sense you be the one to teach her." John answered.

  Robin tried argue his way out of it, John wouldn't let him. Not too long everyone started gaining up on him. I was about to break it up, but I was a little too entertained by it. They argued with him until he muted them all by finally agreeing to it. The discussions that happened in the camp when nothing bad was going on that had to be dealt with right away were far from normal, but it was hilarious.

  I thought it would be interesting to see how Robin would go about teaching me archery. He was a little frustrated after the small argument and took a walk to cool off. Even after he was gone, the camp was still quiet. I looked at everyone still in the camp with a smile.

  "You crazy persuasive nutbags." I said finally as they cracked a smile.