Chapter Ten: In the Lonely Hour
They had taken her within a matter of minutes. Now Anna was blindfolded, and her arms were tied with rope. She was shoved onto a ship, and they had set sail. Anna didn't know how long she had been on that ship, being blindfolded and all, but she could assume. She had been fed crackers and water every day. After what seemed like a week, the ship stopped.
"Let's get the princess," one of the soldiers said. Two men grabbed her and carried her off the ship. She was put into a- carriage? Yes, it was a carriage.
"Come on, let's move. We can't keep the boss waiting," someone said. The boss? Who could that be? Anna thought.
Jared made it. He was back in Arendelle. Crowds of people came to see him.
"Where's the Princess?" they asked. "Where's everyone else?"
"Well," Jared answered, "Anna- is gone." Everyone gasped.
"Gone? The Princess is gone?"
"Calm down, everyone! Anna- she was taken. By the people of the Southern Isles. And Wesletown. They attacked us… they killed everyone else. Except me. I have a prisoner," Jared said breathlessly. He grabbed the Duke and brought him in front of the crowd.
"The Duke of Wesletown." Everyone went mad, incessantly blabbering to each other.
"We'll see what he has to say about this," Jared finished.
They had been going uphill for a while now. It had gotten very cold as well. Anna shivered as a gust of wind blew. Where are they taking me? She wondered. Then she came up with an idea.
"Hey! I need to use the restroom!" Anna shouted.
"Dude. The Princess needs to go. Stop the carriage," a soldier said. The carriage stopped, and the door opened. A man pulled Anna out. Anna put her feet- on the snow! It was snowing very hard. The man led her into the woods, and turned his back.
"Hurry," he said.
"Dude, can you untie me? And get this blindfold off? Please?" Anna said.
"Oh fine, whatever," the soldier replied. He untied Anna's blindfold and ropes so she could do business. "There," he said. "Now just hurry."
Anna realized where she was now. The mountains of Arendelle! What were they doing back here? Anyways, she punched the guy in the face. He toppled over into the snow. Anna ran.
"Help! Help! The Princess is escaping!" The man called. The rest of the soldiers came running to help. Anna kept running. She crashed through the snowy woods, not looking back. A snowstorm had brewed, and soon sight was greatly obscured. Anna had cleared the woods, and was stumbling on a snowy slope. She seemed to have lost the soldiers as they were nowhere to be seen. But there wasn't much to see, as the snowstorm clouded everywhere.
Anna paused to catch her breath. Now what? She thought. Then she realized how cold it was. She was shivering and her face was turning purple. So cold… I need to find a place to stay. But where? So cold… So cold… Anna didn't know where to go. She had run out of options. Maybe I shouldn't have escaped. Then I wouldn't have to die like this, she thought, beginning to give up.
It's over. Sorry I couldn't save you guys, Holt and Elsa. I love you guys. Man, I really should've spent more time with Elsa. Now she's never going to know how much I really love her. I'm sorry, Elsa.
Anna felt so lonely and forgotten, freezing to death. It seemed there was no one else left in this world that cared for her.
"Why does everyone I care about have to leave me? Why? WHY!?" Anna shouted, beginning to sob. "Please! Is there one person who still cares about me? Is there one person who still loves me?" Then a thought hit her. Kristoff. Didn't Kristoff say that he still… loved me?
"Ah, shut up, Anna!" she said to herself. "Why are you still thinking about that guy? He's already gone! Forget it!" Anna sobbed continuously. She didn't even know what to feel anymore. She was just so… lonely. Then, when she was just about to give up life and fall asleep in the snow, she spotted something. An entrance in the side of the mountain! Deciding she had nothing else to lose, she trudged her way there.