Around midnight, the bunk room was dead silent. Hannah painstakingly climbed down the rungs of her bunkbed ladder. Jess stood waiting at the bottom.
The tiniest creak in the floor boards made them tense up and halt in their tracks. The girls made hand and facial gestures at each other to communicate, since even whispers were too risky.
After many careful steps (and missteps), they had reached the door to the bunk room. Hannah looked back at her friends sleeping peacefully one last time. She would most likely never see these people ever again, and it broke her.
She tried not to imagine what Elsa and Anna's reaction would be like when they awoke to find the girls gone, causing them a wave of stress and confusion.
"They have sacrificed so much for us." Hannah thought to herself, "And now we must do the same."
Downstairs, Jess raided the kitchen, taking all sorts of things from bread to turkey legs to pastries. She shoved the items in a sack lying on the counter, while also popping a chocolate in her mouth.
"JESS!" Hannah whispered with a disapproving (but not surprised) tone.
"What?! We need food to stay alive, and the last time I checked, that's what we're trying to do." Jess retorted triumphantly.
"Alright, but let's go now." Hannah said taking her friend by the arm and ripping her away from the food.
Hannah opened the front doors and poked her head out slowly. Her breath caught in her throat when she noticed Sven sleeping next to the sled, not five feet from them.
She locked eyes with Jess, who nodded, understanding their next few steps had to be the quickest and quietest of their lives.
But of course, Hannah's foot happens to crunch down on a stick in the midst of escaping.
Sven grunted and lifted his head up, spotting the girls right away, despite the darkness. He cocked his eyes brows, as he stood up to walk towards the girls.
Jess sighed. "Well, there goes our plan of escape then."
Sven murmured with confusion, wanting to know where they were going.
Hannah stroked his head softly. "Look Sven, it's safer for them this way. We just don't want anything happening to them on account of us. They can go back to Arendelle, and protect their people from the tremors of the imbalance."
The reindeer groaned sadly, blocking they're path.
"We don't want to leave them either. But we'll be fine. We'll make sure to stay on the run so Garth doesn't catch us, and we have plenty of food, trust me." Hannah explained shooting Jess a look.
"And please don't let them follow us. This is really for the best, I promise."
Sven's expression said it all. He gave in at last, and moved out of their path laying back down in his previous spot.
"Thanks mate, you're a dear." Jess said, causing both girls to snicker as Hannah rolled her eyes. "Off we go then."
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Meanwhile in the forest outside of Arendelle...
Garth and his army of magic wielders made their way out of the kingdom on horseback.
He complained constantly in an obnoxious rage to his first officer.
"Can you BELIEVE the nerve of that man? Shunning us from the kingdom, dissolving the mission? Arendellians have always been too proud and bitter for their own good! That's why us Cattarians never bother with trade agreements and such between our monarchies..." He rambled on.
His first officer stared into space blankly, gripping the reins. He was used to his commander's babbling at this point.
"Well, he'll be kissing my boot when I save the universe from complete and utter destruction. I'm going to kill those...those children, those MISTAKES. And not slow deaths either, after what they've put me throu—"
Garth stopped his yammering immediately, listening to the wind as if he knew something the others didn't.
The officer turned his horse around to face his leader. "Sir?! Sir what's the problem?"
"I can sense them. The girls. They've separated from my brother at last. There is no one to protect them now." A ghoulish smile spread across his face.
"COME ON BOYS! WE'VE GOT AN IMBALANCE TO VANQUISH!" He screamed out to his men like a battle cry in a wave of emotion.
The large mass of soldiers on horseback disappeared into thin air, as a teleportation spell was cast.