art in the blood

Title: Five Things Robin Stole (Before He Became an Outlaw)
Characters: Robin, Marian, John, others
Summary: Robin started his career a little earlier than he might have supposed.
Warnings: Violence, death of unnamed characters
Notes: Written for the "caught in a robbery" square on my origfic_bingo card.

( He was four years old . . . )

I wasn't originally planning on posting this as a two-parter, but since it had grown to over two thousand words by the halfway point, I decided to split it in half and post this while I wrangled with Part 2.

Title: Waking World (Part One)
Characters: Alice, Cecily, assorted others.
Summary: "It was then that she began to understand."

( Felt it in my fists, in my feet, in the hollows of my eyelids )

Title: Learning From Examples
Characters: Bess, cameo appearances by Alice and Thomas.
Summary: "It's not much, but it's enough to give her an idea."
Warnings: Groping.

( 'Cause they all sit and stare with their eyes )

Title: Start Bending Me
Characters: Cecily, Marian
Summary: Don't think.

( Shouldn't be so complicated )

Title: Translation
Characters: Shaima, Will
Summary: "You sound like my sister with a bad head cold."

( Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. )