Lady Liege
Lady Liege
AN: I know I add a 'd' accidentally to Aslan but I'm going to make sure my spell check doesn't do that in the coming chapters.
Chapter Three
Inside the Ice Palace
Trinity followed Rigert almost in a daze. She was too cold to sort out all her thoughts or try to figure out what was going on. She just wanted to get warm. They took a couple of short turns before Rigert led her into another room and then shut the curtain behind them.
"We have to be fast. If you're noticed it will be the end for both of us very quickly." Rigert warned her, as he walked over to a pile of cloth on the floor. Using his huge paws he began to rifle through the pile, obviously looking for something that would fit Trinity.
"Right! Because the Wizard doesn't want me to open the curtain on him." Trinity muttered. Rigert stopped digging and looked at her. Okay so maybe she should tone it down with the remarks that were going to draw attention to her. Trinity cleared her throat.
"Find anything?" Trinity asked, nodding her head in the direction of the pile. Rigert turned back to the pile and picked up a large, dirty, heavy brown cloak with long sleeves and a big long hood in his mouth. Trinity walked up too him and took the cloak out of his mouth. Turning it over in her hands she found that at least it was warm, even if it was hideous.
"Well it could be a burlap sack." Trinity stated. She lifted the cloak over head and arranged her arms and head through the proper holes. It was large on her with the sleeves reaching down to her mid thigh, and the tip of the hood reaching down to her lower back.
"Pull the hood down to over your face. You're a lot prettier then anything we have around here" Rigert instructed her.
"Hmmphhh." Trinity scoffed. Pretty. Her, yeah right. She was too athletic to be pretty, had to broad of shoulders and plain brown hair to be pretty. 'So that must mean that everything around here is REALLY ugly.' Trinity mentally concluded. She pulled the hood down so the tip of it was just hitting her chin, leaving her face hidden.
"Better?" Trinity asked.
"Much." Rigert assessed. "Now don't say anything, don't touch anything and DO NOT wander off." Rigert told her as he moved toward the make shift door. Pulling the curtain Rigert entered the hallway again, with Trinity following close behind him. From what she could see through the limited viewing slot, she could see they were walking on a dirt floor in a hallway lit by torches.
Together they began to climb up a set of winding stairs. The climb was easy until, well, the stairs of stone turned into stairs of ICE! Now walking itself became a challenge. 'Okay now who in their mind would think that ice stairs were a good idea?' Trinity thought.
It took them about ten minutes for them to reach the top of the stairs and once there Trinity had a hard time suppressing a large gasp. They were in a bloody ice palace! Things were getting just a little too real for Trinity, and she had to focus really hard on not hyperventilating.
Around her stood vast walls of crystal blue ice, towering up so high she had to tilt her head back to see the top. This earning a growl from Rigert, reminding her to keep her head down. Slanting her head down she was still able to look about. The room was light from the silver torches anchored into the ice, making the ice glitter. It was gorgeous, like something straight out of a fairy tale. This room they were in was twice as long as it was high. It looked like the entrance to one of those medieval castles, with huge wooden doors at the end of the hall.
'I think I found my emerald city.' She thought smiling to herself.
Suddenly the air in the room got crisper, and if possible the temperature dropped even lower. A shiver ran down Trinity's spin, making all the hairs on her body stand alert. Something was coming. And by the feel of it, it wasn't something good. She didn't have to wait to find out what it was.
The doors at the end of the grand hall opened and in walked a very tall, regal looking woman. But as she moved farther into the hall Trinity couldn't help think that there was something about her that made her inhuman. She was too pale, too tall, and too………cold to be human. Trinity observed as the woman thing passed and concluded that by the way this thing was carrying itself it was most surely the one in charge. It didn't say anything as it passed, merely carried on to the end of the hall, where a throne stood on a raised platform. The thing walked up to it, placing something on the side table. It was a very long thing, almost looking like a stick………….
A very shiny stick…………
AN: Okay short I know but I had to get this out of the way. Next chappie has more adeventure and I believe it will be when she joins up with the Pevensie's. Thanx for the reviews they are greatly appreciated. I am going to keep this from becoming a Mary-Sue so don't worry about that. If you have any other questions please ask them so I can clear anything up!!
Raynacch
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