Frozen Memories

by Xeir Zith

"It used to be when people spoke about magic we laughed them off, or locked them up, sometimes both, but we never took them seriously. Maybe we should have. But I am getting ahead of myself, let me start at the beginning, with Elsa. The Templars have the upper hand. Who will protect the Heart of the Mountain, it all boils down to them, Elsa & Mark, they have brought us to the end"

6. Seqeunce 2 Memory 3

The Jellicle's Creed

IV

Frozen Memories

Sequence 2

Memory 3: Inside Access

12 July 2050

Arendelle

Assassin Headquarters

Noon

Outside the Headquarters for the Assassins in Arendelle, Mark paced within the expansive training yard, initally run down and piled with trash and in ruin, Blackmane had done well in cleaning it up good and proper. "Let me get this right for once will you Snowfeather ?" He said calmly as he paced. "the Queen sends out a dagger, Blackmanes own hidden blade, and Blackmane gets it through Matthew Michaels, Den Master of the Lansing Den. Am I right so far ?" He said.

"So far." Snowfeather replied "Lansing sent me the dagger as per Blackmanes instruction, he got it from the CIA before they got wind of it."

"Well I got news for you, before we got summoned here I got notice from an old friend in the CIA, they know where it came from, they want Matthew, not the dagger." Mark said.

"Mark, I know of your work with the CIA in America, we stationed you there at the Mentors insistence we do so. But London has no quarrel with Arendelle nor will they ever find means to do so." Snowfeather replied, "Your contacts within the CIA proved useful to us all the time, even now. We have the edge there."

"So why us ?" Mark turned to her. "I do not mean why the Assassins here, but you and I, why did we come ?" Mark had a wild look to him; almost as if he were going through withdrawl. And in a way he was. Elsa was beautiful to look upon. First meeting be damned! He wanted to see her again, hear her voice, get lost in her eyes.

Snowfeather smiled. "So you were staring at the Queen weren't you." her black eyes shone brightly in the noonday sun.

"What does that have to do with anything ?" Mark asked, somewhat angered, then the full realisation of what Snowfeather just said hit him like a cement truck without brakes. Lifting a hand and pointing behind him, as if to the past he said "That was the Queen ? As in the ruler of this kingdom we're now in ?" Snowfeather nodded, "Alright, that's it, I couldn't take my eyes off her face. She's beautiful."

"And she is only twenty eight years of age." Snowfeather said, "Seven years she has had the Crown of Arendelle. But instead she does not wear it; nor does she sit on either of her parents thrones within the castle itself." Snowfeather explained. "However, the dagger hangs over both throne chairs within the throne room. Or it least it had, as the Queen must have sent out the hidden blade to summon my own sister."

"Impossible for her to be that young." Mark said with a shake of his head, "What year did her parents die ?"

"1980" Came the reply. But it was not Snowfeather, but Blackmane who spoke. "Queen Idun and King Christophe perished in the storm they lost their ship in, or so it is told."

"Not from what I hear tell." Said Snowfeather, Mark and Blackmane looked to her, "Queen Idun was captured by pirates during the third night of the voyage, her body was found two nights later, the next day the storm set upon them, they tried to outrun it, All hands were lost save for the King and Lansing, shortly after landfall, in the hospital I might add, King Christophe perished; next morning, Lansing was put on ICE for a month before he managed to escape by creating a blizzard so powerful, the worst that Ukraine had ever seen."

"Queen Idun, slain by pirates... King Christophe dies from the cold within a ICU... Matthew arrested hours later and put on ICE; so then Matthew created a blizzard the likes of which the world had never seen before to get away. A strange tale to be sure," Mark said thoughtfully. He sighed "One thing still does not make sense." He said

"And that is ?" Snowfeather asked.

"Why us ? Why am I here ?" Mark asked.

"That is for all of us to find out" Said a new voice as Matthew arrived on the scene. "Relax Master Wolfe. Tonight at dinner Elsa has requested that you and Snowfeather be present at her table. I said I'd inform you, preperations have been done, and you are expected. Say no and you might do more harm then good."

Snowfeather smiled, "Good then, we shall attend, doubtless you will attend as well or do you have other duties ?" Her gaze went from Matthew to Blackmane, the latter of whom spoke up.

"Matthews only contracts within Arendelle are to librate districts, and protect Queen Elsa and Princess Anna as much as possible. But there is only so much a single man, even if he is Old Man Winter, can do." Blackmane replied.

"Which is why we came I assume ? To help not just reclaim the city, but also protect the Queen and the Princess ?" Mark said. Matthew nodded, "So where do I come in ?"

"Your abilites with your voice, you can impersonate others well, and also call and use the birds and informers and helpers to protect and defend areas and zones. Ontop of that you also were planted within the CIA in Langley for a few years as well." Matthew said, rattling off a good long list of skills that Mark possessed.

"Yes, that is true, I was in the CIA for five years on your recommendation, and with my skillset and completion percentage. I was given heavy tasks, and wetwork tasks, but all of them I sent to the Assassins to take care of; hence the completion percentage being almost always one hundred percent out of the other agents. Most of them had a raito of one out of every five or one out of every ten missions or contracts ended up a failure or cold case, As far as I am aware, I was the only one with a solid record." Mark replied to Matthew with a nod.

"No doubt now the CIA wonder where you went off to when you sent your notice, or did you ?" Snowfeather said, Blackmane turned and opened the door to the den, allowing the other three to join her inside the expansive recently remodeled building.

Upon entering the foursome found some low chairs and sat down, Mark explained how the CIA managed to track whjere the dagger came from as well as its design, they also had a bead on Matthew as well, "Thanks to my mole still within the CIA, I found out they're going with a well known motorhome company called Tiffon Motorhomes and Entegra Coach; both of those motorhome companies working to make state of the art roaming vans for the advance scoutt teams of CIA operatives. My guess is that a few of them will come here to Arendelle, or to Oslo as the nearest actual city with roads large and strong enough to hold such craft."

Matthew smiled "The CIA had me on ICE for a month, a blizzard took me from their grasp. And yet now they want me back. Most interesting. And they also have seen the hidden blade I picked up, Taku swore the static field devices would keep me from being seeing on any of their camera networks. Of course I did not activate the thing until I was almost to the postal serivce counter to begin with." Matthew said thoughtfully.

"So you drew them here ?" Snowfeather said turning to Matthew.

"No, I allowed myself to be seen because I wanted to show the CIA that I was still alive. Not to where I had gone. How they figured we'd be here is behond me." Matthew replied.

"I might have an answer to that." Blackmane spoke up. Everyone turned to look to her as she held up a envelope. Pointing out the adress mark on it she said "The postal service in Oslo marks this location by these bars here. It locks down the location of destination, and in this case, where it came from. The dagger was sent out from the Castle of the Kingdom of Arendelle, as far as I am aware, it had been tracked as far as Oslo Postal Services."

"So the post office gave us away ?" Mark said

"Something like that. Another thing to remember is there are Templars here, Templars we need to eliminate in order to help Elsa retake her kingdom." Blackmane said "Between Matthew and myself we were able to only librate two districts in the last two weeks. We need to at least gain the mainland and have a focus point from there." She stood and went to the map of the city, Arendelle was devided into 71 districts, two of which. Docks and Arendelle Port districts, were librated already. Those two districts actually counted as but one district on the map, with two spereate areas.

Blackmane pointed out two districts, Arko, and across the bridge from it, Antiqutias District. The Arko district was critcal to maintaining proper Arendelle Guardsmen that were loyal to Elsa by all means. Which meant eliminating the templar influence in that area. Which was going to be quite troulbesome in and of itself. Mark pointed out several weak points. To which Blackmane pointed out several ways they planned to overcome such weaknesses.

Finally Snowfeather spoke up; "When we first met the Queen, there was something about the woman that made her appear on edge to me. I easily picked it up you understand, being skilled as I am" Most all of the Brotherhood knew of the various feline members, Snowfeather and Blackmane among them.

Blackmane nodded as did Mark, it was Mark however that spoke up; "I noticed nothing amiss when we met her previously, however, she did seem... tired; or saddened by something. Something from long ago perhaps ?"

"Possible, what day is today ?" Snowfeather said.

"According to those living here, its been ten years to the day since Queen Idun's body was found by myself and King Christophe on the Agean Sea. Seven years ago Elsa took the crown five days later, it was only two days later, two days from now in fact, when her father passed away in my arms". Matthew explained the entire doomed voyage to the three, Blackmane had heard it before. Mark however, had not.

When Matthew finished it was nearing dinner time. Mark spoke. "So that was why you were put on ICE in Ukraine seventy years ago. Well before my birth that is for sure. How its been seven years for these people is beyond me" Mark said, making it clear that time zones had been crossed sure, but missing nearly sixty goddamned years ?! That was something he planned to look in to.

"For the amount of time it took to get here, compared to how you got here, time still moves at the same speed, yet for here, somehow, Arendelle, and the nieghbouring kingdoms are all somehow slowed in terms of time. Years literally have no effect here" Matthew said, "I myself came here at first in the late sevenites, for three years I taught Elsa to control her powers, on how to do so mosly. And what she could do with her powers as well." All of the Assassins knew of Matthew's powers over ice and snow and wintry weather. "I spent three years here until going with the King and Queen on that doomed voyage. A month later and I'm walking into a plane for America, like nothing ever happened, like it was a bad dream."

"Was it ?" Mark asked.

"No, it was real, it was a memory I held onto for as long as I could remember, until a few weeks ago when Blackmanes hidden blade attachment came in the mail, that is what then got me back here. Back where I belong." Matthew said

"And so with us here, to help regain control of the kingdom, reopen shops and stalls scattered around, I saw a few still closed." Mark said.

"We have four banks now, plus we also have the backing and support of the Queen herself as well, so as long as we do our dirty work behind the scenes to keep the streets cleaned, and out the guards hair; we should be alright." Blackmane said.

"So what's the plan ?" Mark asked, setting his fists, knuckles down, on the table and looking at the layout of the city proper.

"At this moment the plan is for you two to get ready for dinner, it is within an hour from now when you have present yourselves to the Queen at the Castle Ice Rink Courtyard." Blackmane said, taking a brief look at the clock.

"I'm sorry" Mark said, raising a hand, "Ice Rink Courtyard ?"

After trading looks between themselves, Matthew rolled his eyes as Blackmane explained. "Queen Elsa made a ice rink courtyard in the original castle couryard after it was damaged during a deadly snowstorm. It was the same snowstorm that sent Prince Hans and the Duke away empty handed."

"So the Queen can create and use ice ?" Mark said, he pointed first to Matthew then at Snowfeather, "like you two ?" Both nodded "This just gets better and better." Mark said, he set his elbows on the table and ran a hand through his dark hair. "And let me guess, it was the face of the Queen that I was unable to take my eyes off ?" and Snowfeathers nod, Mark wolf whistled, "Yeah this day just got fun."

"Then you have your contract, which at this moment is to meet with the Queen for dinner, now get going. Both of you." Matthew said, he was Head assassin while within Arendelle, and that meant even Snowfeather listened to him.

Arendelle Ice Rink Courtyard

Late afternoon

Sven skidded on the ice trying to keep his balance as Olaf once again lost his carrot nose, the two of them were trying to get it back from a brightly colored parrot of some form. Occasionally scooping up parts of himself and chucking them at the bird to get it to drop the carrot soon Olaf's head went flying. Almost getting the carrot before plopping back onto his body. Olaf sighed.

"Its no use, that bird wont give back my nose!" Olaf said He shook his stick thin arm at the bird! "That's the last warm hug I'll give you!" Olaf said shaking his fist at the bird an angry expression on his face which lasted only seconds as the carrot landed dead backwards, on his forehead. "Comeon Sven lets get outta here! To the dining room!" Sven bellowed something and the two bolted off as Anna arrived with Kristoff.

"Are you sure you want to tell your sister this soon ?" Kirstoff was worried about something, seeing Olaf and Sven happy however was a good thing. Even though it had been seven years since the Great Thaw, Kristoff was nervous until that morning, Anna however was overjoyed. But she wanted to do something for her sister as well, as seven years ago, aside from saving both their lives from Prince Hans, Kristoff had just proposed to Anna. And Anna wanted to tell Elsa.

"Why are you so worried ?" Anna asked. "Its just us, not Hans or the Duke or any other dork trying to take us out and never come back." She said, Anna had a point, Kristoff nodded. After all, Elsa had saved his own life two months before as it was.

"I'm just worried about what might happen, after all you said it was bcause of you and Prince Hans were wanting to be married that Elsa took off. So I don't think if the two of us were to tie the knot, so to speak, that it'd be a good plan. If at all." Kirstoff said.

"Relax, I'll tell her." Anna said. She stepped up to the door as Elsa stepped out. She did however hear her sister speak; though Elsa did not look good, her eyes were oddly bloodshot red. It was a long time since that occurred.

"Tell me what ?" Elsa asked, her sister stoped dead in her tracks, like a deer in the lanterns so to speak, as Elsa zeroed in on her sister as she asked her question. But it was Kristoff that came to the rescue with his own question.

"Are you alright, Elsa ? Your eyes are a bit red. Is everything OK ?" It was clear that something had made Elsa cry, but Kristoff had no idea what it was. If at all for that matter.

"I'm fine, just, some stuff I didn't want to think about came up. I just needed some time to myself to sort through it." Elsa replied. It was in fact, the honest truth. Elsa was reminded by Brun of her parents; somehow, unless it was Tunis actions at the window that reminded Elsa of her mother, and of the legend when her mother told it to her as a child. Which was why she needed time alone.

Elsa had gone up to her mothers bedroom attic closet and found her mothers journal. Though it felt as if she were sneaking in a read, with her mother and father dead for seven years, it felt about right to read her mothers journal. She flickered through it a few pages until she came to the only entry concerning her powers. "Our daughters are safe together, they love each other, I do not feel as if it is right to keep them apart. I do not want to see any pain brother to them. But Christophe says it is for the best. My love, my all, I too want the best for our girls. They love each other as sisters. Let them be together like they should be." Elsa had read the entire entry, it was a good six or seven pages long.

At the very end of it though she had found a line in her mothers writing and it was adressed to her directly. "My dearest Elsa. If you are reading this, it means I have either given you the book to read, or you came by it after my death. I wanted to tell you it all, How it happened, my love for you and your father. Our love for you and your sister Anna. Our fears were unfounded, all that there is, is love. Remember; when your eyes see what your heart fears, remember only this one thing; LOVE WILL THAW. I love you Elsa. Please protect your sister. My love always. Your mother Idun." Elsa had placed the journal on her mothers throne chair.

Of course Elsa had sat in her room alone for six hours after reading that entry, as it was almost dinner time by then. She repeated her question "Tell me what ?" This time looking to Kristoff for answers. Thankfully Anna saved his skin at that moment with a rather surprising question.

"Can you bless our wedding ?" Anna asked, not exactly bluntly, but getting directly to the point in a cheerful, yet dignified manner.

Elsa at first was shocked, then confused, and then her face brightened into a smile. Grabbing Anna into a hug she said simply "Of course, but not just yet." She could tell that they had just proposed, even though they'd know each other for seven years. "There are still things to worry about as it is. I'll tell you what. I'll bless your wedding as Queen, but first I want us to reclaim Arendelle from the Templars, remember the jerk in the dining room that I spiked with my ice ?" Anna and Kristoff both nodded, how could they forget that Honkin' Dork ?

Elsa explained what she had learned from Matthew the night before and also from Blackmane about the various Templar Influence Towers across the kingdom. "The sooner we're rid of the Templars in our kingdom, the sooner you two can get married. It will give you time to plan it properly. After all, Can't be too careful. And besides. With our kingdom reclaimed from the Templars, we wont have to worry about them crashing the wedding!"

At first dispondent, but then overjoyed at her sisters words, Anna agreed almost instantly. Her sister was right, there were too many dangers around at that moment to worry of getting married right away. So Anna agreed to her sisters thought; mostly because Elsa was right, it was true that Anna and Kristoff were in love, Elsa saw it every day. And even though they were sisters, Elsa wanted only the very best for Anna, even if it meant she had to wait another year or more before she could get married. The threesome then did not speak of it for the rest of the day.

Arendelle Castle

Dining Room

Evening

Little before the seven o'clock hour did dinner finally be served. Well before it however did Snowfeather and Mark arrive at the Ice Rink Courtyard. Snowfeather marveled at the craftsmanship in the construction of the ice courtyard. The beauty of it all, the structure of it alone she marvelled that Elsa was able to make it just with pure thought. And the fact that every one in the kingdom acted as if it were normal.

Which in a sense for everyone living in the kingdom seeing Snowfeather and her technology, identity discs, energy blade of the same matrials, a car from nothing from code and light. All in all, it was quite interesting to see in motion. Or in use for that matter. But what Snowfeather was focused on at that moment was the ice, the sheer beauty of the glasslike surface, to the intricate detailing around all the doors and walls. Even the gates had beautiful ice sculptures embossed on them.

Mark just stood and stared at the door to the castle as Elsa stepped out, not in assassin robes this time, no, not for formal events for sure. Heck not even in her battle dress was the Queen that drop dead gorgeous. Dressed in a shade of bleached blue, to almost metallic bluish green, with a shining corset of almost glass greenish blue. Elsa was in her queenly garb for dinner that evening with new guests. Thankfully his hood covered his face and kept his staring eyes from being seen. A small scar on his left cheek however was just barely decernable as he had not brought along his mask at Snowfeathers insistence.

"Welcome to Arendelle." Elsa said stepping down a set of steps to the ice rink surface. "I trust you found what you sought ?" She said

Snowfeather nodded, "We did indeed your majesty." She said in reply.

"Please, call me Elsa, only people from other kingdoms call me majesty or highness. Between us its best off you not do that. Trust me it gets annoying very quickly." She had a hard time as it was trying to keep her own people from referring to her as highness or my queen, but it was habit that none could really break.

"Very well, whatever you wish we shall do." Snowfeather said, now formally introducing herself, "I am Snowfeather; this you know, I am Blackmanes elder twin sister. Even though we do not fully look alike, we are indeed sisters. This lug with me is Mark Wolfe, a second rank Assassin assigned to my den. When Blackmane summoned us to here to you mostly, he came with me." Snowfeather said, once again clouting Mark in the stomach to get his attention.

With his attention taken from the obviously way too hard to take his eyes from beauty before him, Mark turned briefly to Snowfeather before nodding and replying. "Yes, madam." It was hard for him to speak her name that first time, "A pleasure to meet you formally as it may seem." He was mostly in shock, and confusion of how one could be so brightly dressed and yet everyone else constantly forced to work or look elsewhere. "You will have to forgive me I am not too good with first names on a first meet basis."

"You'll have to forgive him. He's raised to respect those in power. That also means you." Snowfeather explained to Elsa's raised eyebrow. "and me" Snowfeather clouted Mark in the stomach again while saying to Elsa. "I'll explain later." To Mark she said in Arabic "Remove your hood when you speak to the Queen alright, try and remember that."

Mark did as instructed, his deep brown eyes shone off the ice on the rink. It was not every day when a man as handsome as he was present to the Queen. Elsa felt her heart briefly skip a beat befeore speaking "It is alright, but I insist, call me Elsa, unless in public when you feel you must refer to me as the queen, which I am." Elsa said, Mark nodded, he liked that idea

"I must admit, Elsa, that I think I can work with that." Speaking her name in private like they were now, with a few guards around he could do, but in public, even if she were as an assassin in training, he'd still refer to her as royalty, which there was no denying such thing.

Elsa smiled, she somehow liked how he pronounced her name. A very strong ls there, very strong. And yet, it sounded beautiful as well when he said it. "Good, so can I. Unless I am with Matthew in training, even then you refer to me as Elsa, not as queen or anything, after all Matthew pretty much drilled into me the fact that I am the Queen of Arendelle yes, but I am also an Assassin, and the truth of my being who I am must remain hidden when in training with Matthew. We clear ?"

Mark and Snowfeather both nodded, Snowfeather however had a bright smile on her face as she asked "With that out of the way, Elsa, how was it that you made this beautiful ice rink ? Only scant few do I know that have similar skill such as yours." She said, that was high praise indeed.

Elsa visibly blushed, "I just did it myself, even made the iceskates for some of the people, they set up the rest." She admitted only so much, she had also used her ice and snow to properly rebuild the castle good and proper as well. It needed the repairs since the Great Blizzard and the Great Thaw as everyone called it. The blizzard had damaged parts of the castle, and those parts where replaced with ice sheets so clear and presitine and never to melt. Elsa noticed as Mark bent down to inspect the ice surface, so amazingly smooth to the touch, cool as well, yet not freezing. "Walk with me a moment, both of you. Please." Elsa said at long last. She wanted their thoughts on something.

Gerda stood nearby, with a nod from Elsa, the head housemaid stepped forwards and handed the queen something, a book of some form. Thankfully Snowfeather coul read norse runes, which to the Assassins was one form of their writings, in fact they refered to the writing in norse as Angarthas Asassini. The three then walked from the ice rink courtyard up onto the paraphets and from there along the wall. Elsa spoke all the while.

"I found this eariler, and I want your honest thoughts." Her eyes looked at least up close, just slightly bloodshot. But she had moved on, or had she ? She handed Snowfeather the book, it was her mothers journal. She had it open to a page towards the point when the Templars first started to appear. "My mother wrote about the first incursions of the Templars, she wrote of them as men with swarthy looks and keen eyes, able to take down their targets without worry of retribution. According to what my mother wrote, the dagger was never thought of to send out for help. They overran my homeland." Elsa said.

Snowfeather read the entry, it was six pages long, all of it was about possible ways to get rid of the new men and women that soon flocked into the kingdom, they built towers, saying it'd help spread news and keep an eye on things. Christophe was against the towers as they marred the landscape around them. But the Templars insisted. Which much to Iduns dismay, allowed them to build more towers across the kingdom.

Stores soon closed, Snowfeather read on, Within each district the stores that managed to remain open were levied a havy tax by the district overseers. Long have they totured and took what was not theirs. Long have our streets filled with the dead, but no more, no, not when our daughters are ready to take over, I fear I will never see the day when our kingdom was as bright as it was when Elsa was born. Her first snowflake she made brightened our hearts.

Snowfeather closed the book with a thunk. "The Templars came against your fathers wishes, they were supplied by the south, and also those of the town of ... Weselton." Snowfeather handed the journal back. "Forgive me, but I cannot read any further, this is your mothers journal, It does not feel right to me to read it." She said

Elsa took back the journal "I understand your worry and yours thoughts Snowfeather, but my mother has been dead ten years, I am sure that she would not mind it if you read her thoughts concerning our unwanted guests. The Templars." Elsa said in reply.

"Be that as it may, Elsa, but no, I simply cannot read your mothers journal; it does not feel right for me to do so, honor her memory today, please. Do not make me read her journal. If you must want me to learn her thoughts of the Templars and the stain they had brought her to this beautiful kingdom, please, speak it to me from the book, but do not make me read it." Snowfeather was speaking partly of experience and mostly from fears. The last time she had read something not for her to read ended in disaster.

The three walked on. Elsa then asked after a long moment of quiet. "What do you suggest; aside from me learning from Matthew, and in a way, yourselves. I do to get rid of the Templars once and for all ?" She looked first to Snowfeather than to Mark, who, by then once more had his hood up, but his eyes were sadly focused to a certain part of Elsa's body, after all he was three paces behind her anyhow, it was hard not to look at that beautiful body in motion. Even just walkiing he could get distracted by this woman.

Mark suddenly found himself thinking I hope she is not engaged Little did he know that he had just found his future. He was about to speak his mind, which at that moment was completely a mess but thankfully Snowfeather saved him a screwing up.

Snowfeather spoke up. "I suggest collecting resources, let Blackmane and Matthew rebuild what they have so far librated to get some money coming in, as money will also be needed to renovate newly librated zones to begin with. And also soldiers to be properly trained to patrol daily in each librated district as well. If you like I think Mark here can oversee their training."

"Or we could devide and coqure" Mark said, speaking his mind right then and there and earning himself a solid whack to the stomach, Snowfeather looks frail and thin, yet she packed one hell of a suckerpunch when one least expected it. She had caught him staring.

"Eyes on the prize boy." Snowfeather said in Arabic, a langauge that Elsa did not hope to understand if at all. Already Snowfeather was regretting saying those words.

"I thought my eyes were on the prize ?" He raised a hand before Snowfeather struck again "Oh you mean you, I see. Well, I said my mind carefully, I think we should devide and conqure" He made the mistake then of lowering his hands. Only to have Snowfeather easily slug him; Elsa stared, an eyebrow raised, Snowfeather moved faster than anything she had ever seen, Not even Matthew moved as fast as this woman.

From where he lay, flat on his back, Mark asked "Is it too hard to speak ones mind ?" Of course he still spoke Arabic, which Elsa needed a translator for. Snowfeather knelt down to him.

"As soon as you figure out who is in charge and where you stand, maybe I will consider that option. Until then, you're an Assassin, that comes first, you are to protect the Queen by any means, understood ?" Snowfeather said in Arabic. Mark nodded.

"Help me up will you ?" Mark held up a hand, Snowfeather effortlessly pulled him to his feet. To Elsa Mark said simply, "I think I will need to speak with Matthew on thoughts. From what I hear tell, the Arko district is the next one to the mainland. Am I correct ?" Elsa nodded, "Yes, I will talk to Matthew, we'll come up with something. In the mean time, you mind if I ask what is keeping dinner ?"

Ten minutes later and they were in the dining room, lead in there by Elsa; the long table housed nine chairs per side, and each space was taken by someone in the castle, Two of them were Brun and Tuni, who sat to Elsa's left, the others, Anna sat next to her sister, who sat at the head of the table, whereas Kristoff sat next to Anna, and Snowfeather and Mark sat beside Tuni and Brun. Both men seemed ready to travel as soon as they were done eating.

Snowfeather however enjoyed Tuni's company and actually understood his motions. Going so far as dancing with him on the ballroom dance floor. Thanfully, Mark found himself never asked to dance by anyone present. Unless it was a dance of a battle of some kind, then he'd easily take part. But a foxtrot ? No, he was more of a rhumba type of dancer.