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He knew it was against the rules but he flitted to stand in front of her, "Arra." She looked anywhere but his eyes. "Look at me." But she didn't. He put his hand under her chin to make her look at him.

"I know you do not want to hear it. But please just listen." He said.

"What, what is it that you want to say? After 13 years! What have you got to say?" She said clearly annoyed that she was restricted from moving.

"I apologize for leaving, I apologize for the pain I must have caused you."

"Why did you go?"

"I was losing control."

"On what me? Because quite frankly you never controlled me."

"Not control on you, control of my life."

"What, after 37 years of us being together? Was it all moving too fast for you or something?" She asked.

"I just, I guess I was..."

"What?" She snapped.

"...homesick..." The words he would never admit came from his mouth and he dropped her chin. He walked off and he kept walking until he came across an ice lake. He kept going, just more carefully. He was homesick, that wasn't bull shit. But he would never admit it too anyone.

He didn't notice she was behind him until he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Larten, everyone gets homesick. I just thought you could have told me. I thought you could tell me anything."

"I did not know I was homesick, it just felt like everything was slipping away."

She stepped closer and put her arms around his waist, he turned around and hugged her back.

"Guess what?" She asked.

"What?"

She smiled broadly. He remembered that smile, it was either she had pulled a prank on one of the princes, or she was really excited.

"IT'S CHRISTMAS!" She exclaimed, of course how could he forget, Arra loved human holidays.

"Greeeeaaaaat" He said as enthusiastically as he could. But she didn't seem convinced.

"Come on" She said and ran across the ice, dragging him along.

"What?"

"Let's skate!" This scared him, he couldn't skate. Arra knew this. Why is she making him do this?

"Yeah, I know you can't skate but I will teach you." She said as if answering his silent question.

"Just walk normally but kind of drag your feet instead of picking them up and stepping."

He tried it and he wasn't half bad. They skated for about half an hour until they noticed the sky turning from black to dark gray.

"We better get going and find a coffin or a cave."

"Yeah, there is one up there, but let me just try something first." She skated all the way to the other side of the lake and then came back but half way she jumped and landed well but he heard a crack in the ice. He ran over to her but it was too late the lake swallowed her up. He looked down the hole she had created and saw her drowning, fast. Without thinking he dived into the freezing water and swam down as fast as he could. He grabbed her hand and swan upwards towards the hole. Once there he climbed out with her over his shoulder. From there he looked for the cave, she was right it was only a short distance from the lake. He ran in there and took his cape off, laid it on the floor and put Arra's motionless body on it.

For all he knew she might be dead...

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