Chapter 12
Kristoff and Sven meet Morgana
"Is that...?" Belle asked. Morgana nodded.
"What are you doing here, Sven? If you're trying to tell me about my mother- I already know." Morgana complained, hands on hips as she looked down at the sprawled figure of the reindeer in the centre of Rumple's shop. Sven grunted and made a few other intelligible sounds. Morgana nodded, understanding.
"And where is Kristoff?" She asked as a bedraggled man stuck his head around the door, slowing to a stop- he had evidently been running.
"Someone call?" He gasped, breathlessly.
"Hello, Kristoff." Morgana waved. Kristoff gulped.
"My lady Morgana, good day to you." He bowed awkwardly still clinging to the doorframe.
"Where is my daughter, Kristoff?" Morgana asked airily- Kristoff was worried- he'd seen that look in her eyes before, long ago.
"Your mother has her. I do not know where. Honest."
"So why are you two buffoons here?" Morgana asked now, hands still on her hips.
"You're aunt Anna is missing, she headed for the enchanted forest and never returned. We are due to marry and you're mother was worried for her. I just accompanied her here- I had no idea she had taken your daughter until I saw her, Ravenna, playing with Sven." Kristoff explained calmly. Sven grunted a few times, Morgana's eyes flashing to him. Kristoff looked at him too. "I know she was pulling your antlers, Sven, but she is a toddler, its what she does- what any toddler would do."
Belle smiled, imagining a younger version of Morgana pulling the reindeer's antlers. It was certainly amusing, but she could tell the reindeer hadn't been pleased.
"Very well, you are forgiven, Kristoff. You too Sven. Don't let my mother think you have disobeyed her- stay loyal to her, but if she takes my daughter away from Storybrooke, you have to tell me. Understood?" Morgana relented.
"Yes, my lady." Kristoff bowed and sighed with relief.
"Right, get gone then before she notices you missing." With that Kristoff helped Sven up and the pair left together in a hurry.
Morgana hugged Belle goodbye and walked to the door, pausing as she did by a cabinet spotting what Blair had seen- a carved coconut shell with a small name written in the corner- 'Baelfire'. Belle looked at her curiously as she stood up again, Morgana's face pale.
"I'll see you later, Belle. There is something I have to do." With that Morgana left before Belle could say anything, but she noticed Morgana had the same determined look on her face that Rumple did when he was planning something. She debated whether to tell Rumple or not and decided she probably should, just in case.