"Well, well, well," said an icy voice. "Let's see what the garbage man brought me today."

With large black boots and a blue uniform, Warden Else marched into the room, inspecting each new prisoner as though it were a piece of merchandise. Anna felt her heartbeat increase as she did her best to hide her face, hoping against odds that her sister wouldn't recognize her.

"Hello, Warden Elsa," said Olaf, saluting her. "I trust that the inmates arriving at this hour didn't interfere with your sleep?"

"Olaf, it's five in the morning," said Elsa coldly. "Of course it interfered with my sleep. And why aren't you wearing your hat?"

"I...uh...wanted to be naked," said Olaf, sounding a bit confused by the question.

"Well, put it back on," said Elsa. "All officers at Frozen Heart must remain in their uniforms when they're around inmates. This is the last time I'm going to tell you this."

"Yes, Warden Elsa," said Olaf, quickly picking his officer's hat off the floor and placing it back on his head.

"You'll have to forgive Olaf, girls," said Elsa, turning her attention back to the naked women. "I'm afraid he has a bit of a...soft heart for this job. But he does do what he's told, which is why I like having him around."

The prisoners said nothing. Anna was staring down at the floor, refusing to look up for even a moment.

"You will quickly find, however, that I am nothing like Olaf," Elsa continued. "Olaf, bless his heart, is eager to please everybody. Well, I don't give a crap if I please you, nor do I give a crap if you girls like me. You are all trash. You are all the bottom of society. You are all prisoners. Never forget your place, always do what you're told, and we should all be able to get along just fine."

There was something about the way that Elsa said the word "fine" that made the hair on her neck crawl a bit.

"However, we should get one thing out of the way right now," said Elsa. "As jailbirds, I expect for you all to dream about your freedom. I won't punish you for that. But that is all you will be able to do here: dream about it. If any of you were thinking about escaping, well..."

Anna heard a loud buzzing sound, and for the first time, she looked up at her sister. Elsa was pushing buttons on a remote control device of some sort. Suddenly, a doorway slowly swung open...revealing the terrified face of a young woman, frozen in a large block of ice.

"This is Blondie," said Elsa. "Or, at least, that's what we called her. Honestly, I don't remember what her actual name was. But it doesn't matter. All that matters is that she tried to escape...with the key word in that sentence being 'tried.'"

Anna opened her mouth to say something, but quickly thought better of it.

"She is the only woman in the history of Frozen Heart to ever try something so stupid," said Elsa. "Let's see that it stays that way, okay?"

"What did she do?"

Anna looked around, wondering who had asked that question. Then she realized to her horror that the question had come out of her own mouth without her even realizing it.

Elsa slowly marched over to her.

"Excuse me?" she said.

"Nothing, " said Anna quickly. "It was nothing."

Elsa smiled.

"Olaf, have the other prisoners thrown in the shower and processed," she said. "This one...this one I need to have a private word with."

Anna began to shake a bit. She had really blown things for herself now!