Brinjarry's younger brother stayed for a week. Anna, Rahel, Brynjarr, Olaf, and Kristoff avoided him expertly. Elsa was hardly ever seen; she was either in her study or couldn't be found; Guide had not seen whatsoever. When her family asked if Elsa had found the little companion Elsa told them Guide was disturbed by the marriage and was staying at her ice castle.

Since then Elsa had displayed some concerning behavior such as talking to herself, hiding in her office, submerging herself in old scripts, and disappearing at night and not return until morning.

Anna decided to discuss it with her. The princess checked the library but didn't find the blonde. She went to Elsa's study and found the queen mumbling to herself pacing back and forth holding a little brown journal.

"Umm, hey Elsa" Anna greeted sheepishly. Elsa looked at her and offered a weak smile.

"Anna what is it you need?" Elsa sat down at her desk and Anna like always sat atop it.

"Elsa I wanted to talk to you about your behavior lately." Anna looked at her sister who was signing a unknown document.

"What about it?"

"Well are you okay?"

"I'm fine Anna. How's the baby?" Elsa finally raised her eyes to her baby sister. Anna smiled and put a hand on her stomach.

"I've gained weight and I am super happy about that." Elsa creased her eyebrows.

"And why are you happy about that if I may ask?"

"Because I can eat whatever I want when I want and blame it on the baby." Anna smiled mischievously.

"Uhuh. I'm glad that this arrangement is working out for you." Anna grasped Elsa's hand and made eye contact.

"Elsa are you and Guide truly okay?" Elsa's heart quickened.

"Yes Anna. Guide and I are okay. We're just dealing with…what's happened is all." Anna was satisfied and left.

Rahel was residing in the castle lounge when a courier brought her a letter addressed to her from the Southern Isles. She opened it and paled at its contents.

My dearest Rahel,

My suspicions have been confirmed that you have been accomplishing absolutely nothing. I gave you a simple task to complete and more than enough to time to do such. I did not want it to come to this but you leave me no choice. If you fail to comply with my terms in the next week a member of the Arendelle house will die. You will not know when. You will not know where. You will not know how. You will not know who. I will be suspecting results immediately.

Signed: PT of the South

It was getting serious and Rahel knew she would have to report this to Elsa. When Tollak left her it cut a gash deep in her heart, but it also opened her eyes to the fact that the Westguards did not truly love her. The Arendelle house welcomed her as if she wasn't a stranger they welcomed her as a member of their little family. They were a strange, little family but they still valued love above all else; above power, above strength they valued each other. That is what Rahel wanted and now it was her responsibility to protect them from the mad man that she always strived to please. She wasn't shown a lot of love growing up so when Tollak did display any type of affection it always felt like a reward and Rahel would hold on to it tightly. She went to Elsa's study and knocked on the door.

"Come in." Came a muffled voice from behind the thick wooden door.

Rahel entered, Elsa's face darkened at the sight of her, the brunette didn't notice. She set the offensive letter on Elsa's desk. Elsa looked at the girl then went over it. Before she could question the girl Rahel spoke up.

"I know that the addressing in that letter is questionable and you have every right to think so but before you place judgment on me I would like to confess everything."

Elsa silently signaled for her to continue.

"As Tollak told you he found me when I was alone and lost and took me in and raised me. He studied me committed…..test and experiments on me over the years. H-he-he…sometimes they were completely safe like taking a hair, blood, or skin sample. Others however weren't so innocent." Rahel gulped and Elsa sympathized with her. The monarch stood up and led Rahel to the couch and sat next to her so she could be more comfortable with the upsetting subject.

"He would…test my body and mind to seek out their limits. He would place me in scolding, boiled, water that was far too hot for any human, or freezing water. I would be forced to stay awake for weeks to see how long I could last. The experiments varied from stretching my skin to learning how much blood I could lose without dying." Horrid images of the tests ran through Elsa's head. Those weren't experiments, they weren't even torture methods.

"The physiological tests were always the worst. Tollak would be so sweet and kind one day then the next he was abusive and aggressive. It took me a few years to learn that it was a test, He would expose me to…nightmarish things and make fears for me then see how quick I could get rid of them." Elsa was mortified. She knew something wasn't right with the prince but she didn't know it was that bad.

"Prince Tollak was impressed with the results and saw me as something powerful. He saw me as a weapon."

It made sense to the queen, the examination that was taken on Guide showed how powerful her mind and body truly were and Guide herself didn't even know it.

"He made military plans to use me in battle, but King Fridtjof refused the offer. He said "You fool how could you even think of sending a little girl into battles and still call yourself a human being?" To appease his older brother's conscious he planned to….make more of what I am"

Elsa knew what she meant. A sickening feel sunk in to Elsa's stomach. Rahel faced the blonde with tears in her eyes. "That's why he brought me here…to populate the south with what we are. Guide and I…together for military advantage, because he sensed a great threat from the west." She began sobbing in her hands.

That was strange Elsa was married to the west and now she was angry. Not at Rahel, but she was furious at the idea of that monstrous man regarding Rahel and Guide, her guide, as nothing but mere animals. Not even an animal should be treated with such disrespect and inhumanity.

He was trying to breed Rahel and Guide together like dogs. Elsa took a deep breath and pulled the girl into her embrace.

"I don't want to, I promise I don't wanna." She sobbed into Elsa's shoulder.

"I know. I know." Elsa mumbled. But one thing didn't still make sense.

"Rahel, how did Tollak know of Guide in the first place?" Rahel calmed her crying and Elsa's waited patiently.

"Councilman Akí has been working with him." Elsa's hate for the man increased.

"Glad I killed him." Elsa mumbled.

"What?" Rahel asked not hearing her.

"Why was he working with Tollak?" Elsa was now relieved that Rahel was brought away from that hell that she used to live in and was now here where she belonged.

"Tollak kept me mostly in the dark but that doesn't mean I never tried to figure out what they wanted. Tollak wants an army and Akí wants to stop some crazy prophesy that some mountain trolls predicted." Rahel prattled off.

"Wait, wait what prophesy?" Elsa asked confused.

Rahel raked her memory for the information. "The moon and winter…will conjoin together and create a blizzard that will freeze the land that was once encased in ice."

Elsa scrunched her face in concentration thinking of the puzzling words.

"It started at first with King Adgar, Queen Iduna, and Nanette."

Elsa whipped her head to the girl. There was more going on right under her nose in her very own castle than she actually knew.

"Akí killed Nanette by putting a poison mixture in her medicine that she received to relieve labor pains, it causes stress in its victims it made her baby freeze her from the inside killing her. He was hoping to kill the baby as well stopping the prophecy. He thought she was the one in the prophecy but he learned soon it was Guide… and now that I think about it…you." Rahel looked to Elsa.

The queen understood everything now. She was very relieved that the man responsible for all her pain and affliction, her isolation was dead.

Rahel hugged Elsa who thanked her for the clarity. Rahel left feeling much happier…and lighter.

As always since Guide's disappearance Elsa stayed in her study until sunset. She tried to slip away but Brynjarr cut her off in the main hallway. She inhaled sharply as they made eye contact.

"Elsa" He greeted sharply.

"Brynjarr" she replied in the same tone of voice.

He looked at her riding wear, since Guide's disappearance the king had sensed that something wasn't quite right and he grew suspicious.

"I thought we could go up to your ice castle, maybe I could visit Guide as well."

Elsa's heart skipped a beat. "A-no-no no I have to- not tonight Brynjarr I'm sorry."

She slipped past Brynjarr and ran out the castle he looked after her, eyes narrowed.

The king's suspicions were confirmed. Arendelle's Queen was hiding a very dark secret.