An Echo in the Wells of Silence [IN PROGRESS]

For centuries, Hero has lived in the shadows as a force of nature and magic. Gifted with immortality by the gods the moment her lover, Leander, drowned in the Hellespont, she appears every century to fulfill the role of watching over those whose fates are destined to be laced with heroism. It was she that gave Hercules his strength, and Odysseus his intellect. She who gave King Arthur Excalibur. In return, she makes them promise to remember her and pass the knowledge of her existence on to their children and grandchildren. However, they always forget, and Hero is always lost to history.

When Hero is summoned into the year 1194, she vows to live in seclusion, living out the rest of her immortality alone in a cottage in the Sherwood forest. However, when a man stumbles into her home with grievous injuries, Hero is drawn to his aid. Little does she know that the man is Robin Hood, an outlaw whose fame stretches across all of Britain for his thievery and charity. By helping him, she unwittingly allies herself against the court of Prince John, who controls the kingdom in his brother, King Richard the Lionheart's, absence during the Crusades.

Forced out of her isolation, Hero sets her goal on finding Robin's band of merry men in the forest and persuading them to take her into their ranks. As she grows closer to Robin, the world begins to change around her in drastic waves. She finds that he brings out a part of herself that she hasn't seen in centuries, and she feels more and more human.

And that's because, slowly, her immortality is wearing off.