Story from resident about a pair of rooks (9)
I believe the answer is:
narrative
'story' is the definition.
(I know that story can be written as narrative)
'resident about a pair of rooks' is the wordplay.
'resident' becomes 'native' (I've seen this in other clues).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a pair of rooks' becomes 'arr' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'native' enclosing 'arr' is 'NARRATIVE'.
'from' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for narrative that I've seen before include "Story line" , "Chronicle" , "Report" , "Account of connected events, a story" , "Story recounting events" .)