Drabble: Do not go Gentle into that Dark Night

The Sheriff died in his bed.

Some would have called it peaceful.

The forest was long clear of outlaws.

Gisburne was dead; lost to war and rebellion. His successor also believed in force as the option of both first and last resort.

Hugo continued to amass wealth and remained smugly content with his lot. Robert, enmeshed in ties of blood, achieved little with his aid.

Once Robert de Rainault had had plans. None had been achieved and he knew how he would be remembered.

Surrounded by incompetence, venality and thugs, he raged impotently in death as he had in life.