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Chapter 37
With a groan, Elsa woke up. Her body felt heavy, her eyelids felt as if they were made of stone. For a moment she thought of the time when she had been captured by Prince Hans. The chandelier felt and she had been knocked unconscious.
But this time it was different.
What happened, Elsa thought. Her head hurt...frankly, everything hurt. Then she remembered, the memories came flooding in. She remembered following Rainer to a inn and eavesdropping on a conversation he was having with a stranger. Then she followed Rainer through the streets of Arendelle only to find out that the man was the stranger Rainer was meeting with, wearing the same disguise as him.
Under any other circumstances, Elsa would have thought that such a trick was actually quite clever. Since they suspected that someone was spying on them, they came to the conclusion that Rainer was being tailed. So, they switched their disguises, causing Elsa to confuse the two.
Then the stranger would be able to lead Elsa into a trap, with Rainer following Elsa while she followed the stranger whom she mistook for Rainer. Once in a secure location, both of them would be able to overwhelm the Queen of Arendelle. With enough speed, Elsa wouldn't be able to use her ice powers, and since she as alone, no guards would be able to protect her.
The stranger turned out to be Flynn Rider, Rapunzel's husband. This meant that besides the Kingdom of Weselton, the Kingdom of the Southern Mediterranean, and the Kingdom of the Southern Isles, the Kingdom of Corona was also involved.
Two Germanic kingdoms and one Southern kingdom.
Elsa's first instinct was to move, but she stopped herself. If her captors thought that she was asleep, then that might be her first and only advantage.
Carefully, she forced her tired eyes to open. She had expected to wake up in a jail cell, surrounded by cold stone walls, but what greeted her eyes was quite different. There was a chimney fire on the far side of the room. She was lying on a soft cotton stuffed bed with a large wool blanket covering her. The walls and floors were made out of a wood that only Arendelle had and did not export, signaling Elsa that at the very least, her captors have not taken her outside her kingdom. Parts of the floor were covered in a worn out carpet, and the windows were small, barely letting enough light into the room.
I must be in an inn, Elsa concluded.
Glass was expensive, and only the royal castle could afford to install large windows as it was extremely expensive to import glass from the far South. But since inns competed with each other, every inn tried to install small windows in their rooms which require only a small amount of expensive glass. The worn out carpet also supported the fact that she was in an inn, since the houses of the commoners would not be able to afford carpets and those in the royal castle would always be new.
Even though her eyes were open, Elsa remained motionless. She did not want to turn around because that would cause her to make a rustling noise. If there was anyone else in the room, that might tell them that she had woken up. Her first and foremost priority now was to get herself back to the royal castle where her word was law.
"I know you're awake, you know," a voice sounded from behind her.
Elsa froze. She knew this voice. This voice was Flynn Rider. The last voice she heard before a cloth covered her face and she fell unconscious.
"The way a person breathes changes when they are awake," Flynn Rider said. "Queen Elsa, you can freeze fire, but even you can't control your breathing the moment you wake up."
Scowling, Elsa sat up on the bed. Even though he was Rapunzel's husband, outside the Kingdom of Corona, it appeared as if he had reverted to the personality of a thief, daring to address the Queen of Arendelle in such a casual manner.
"And you are not scared that I will freeze you?" Elsa asked.
With a smile, Flynn walked up from behind the bed she was sleeping on, placing himself into her line of sight.
A smart man, Elsa thought. To avoid her ice magic, Flynn purposefully avoided being in her line of sight when she woke up, so that he would have the upper hand when it came to the balance of information in the room.
"Believe me your majesty, I have seen my fair share of magic," Flynn smiled with a raised eyebrow.
Elsa glanced left and right. Rainer was nowhere to be seen, with only her and Flynn Rider in the room. The door was ten steps to her right and Flynn was standing four steps away from her. Elsa thought it was reasonable to assume that Flynn had never seen her use her ice magic. Even if he had seen magic before, this way he would be caught by surprise. Assuming that Flynn had the door locked and was carrying the key somewhere on the body, she could easily freeze Flynn to the ground and search him.
"The door is locked from the outside and I don't have the keys on me," Flynn Rider said, as if reading her thoughts.
Elsa cursed herself internally, wondering if her eyes were making her thoughts that obvious.
"And the one you're looking for, the one with the fancy title, he is going to come back any minute now," Flynn Rider said, as if he was predicting her train of thought.
Elsa assumed that the 'one with the fancy title' was referring to the Duke of Weselton.
Little did Elsa know that as a former thief, Flynn always had to think exactly what his opponents were thinking so that he could stay three steps ahead of them.
"Who's the one with the fancy title?" Rainer's voice sounded on the other side of the door.
There was the sound of keys entering the lock.
Anna wandered around the castle, searching for Count Fidenza. She thought that he had gone to the other side of the castle, but he was nowhere to be seen. She walked into the part of the castle where the Count was supposed to be staying at, but she still couldn't find him.
When the Count's servants saw her, they immediately got down onto their knees. Even after all these years, Anna felt that it was a little odd for people from foreign countries to bow down to her. She accepted it on coronation day when she was standing next to Elsa, but when she was alone, she wasn't used to this kind of treatment.
So often had she gone into town by herself that most of the townsfolk had become nice and familiar with her while the kids treated as a big sister. However Queen Elsa still inspired respect and, perhaps, a little bit of fear.
As Anna continued her search throughout the castle, she couldn't help but think about the the enormous threat the Count posed to Arendelle. He had half an army parked inside the Arendelle harbor, essentially taking the kingdom hostage. Of course they couldn't reveal to the Count that they knew of the contents of his ship, as officially they were only holding friendly trade talks. If the Count knew that they knew, he might immediately launch an attack.
In such a situation, Anna wished that Arendelle had more allies. Rainer, the Duke of Weselton, seemed to want to betray them, and so does the Count. It felt as if there were secret deals left and right, so many that it was impossible to keep track of them all. It seemed that Rainer was acting as a decoy, with the Count informing Elsa of his plans so that he could gain her trust, causing her to sign a major ice export deal to the Count rather than Rainer, when in fact those two had been working together all along.
Yet Anna felt that there was something else going on. She felt that the mysterious third royal passenger would probably add another layer of complexity to the entire situation. Another secret under-the-table deal that no one in Arendelle knew of.
It was quite frightening really, to think about how all the other kingdoms were dividing up Arendelle among themselves while Elsa was in hiding.
A young and experienced Queen made an easy target.
And if Rainer and Count failed to convince Elsa to sign the contract, then there was still the army in their harbor acting as insurance.
Now that Anna thought about it, the situation was rather desperate. Ever since Coronation Day, the greedy desires of the other kingdoms had been set in full motion and were ready to devour Arendelle.
In deep contemplation, Anna found herself back at the library.
"Get it together!" she told herself and entered the library. She wanted to check if Anja was alright.
She found Anja sitting in the large leather chair, pretending to read a book because most maids had never gone to school and thus had never learned to read and write.
"I couldn't find the Count," Anna said and sat down on a large leather sofa. "Did anything happen while I was away?"
With a smile, Anja shook her head. "No, your highness. Nothing at all."