After a very long ride by horse, Princess April arrives at Snowfall Kingdom. As she walks through the market square, townspeople will stop in awe at what looks like a younger version of the long dead Queen Snow White. Once she reaches the palace gate, she stops her horse and dismounts.
"I'm Princess April," she announces to the guards. "I am passing though and wish to see my brother, King Gwen." One of the guards runs inside.
A moment later the guard runs back, with a royal stable hand following behind him.
"King Gwen and Queen Gerda will receive you in the family room," says the guard as the stable hand leads Princess April's horse away. "There is a servant waiting by the front door to lead you there, and fetch you any refreshment you desire." Princess April walks towards the double doors into the castle and opens them. She is greeted by a maid. She follows her to a big room with half of it containing two chairs, a couch, and a coffee table. The second half has a grand piano in it and shelves of music book from around the world. Princess April orders a pot of peppermint tea and a cucumber sandwich. As the maid leaves, the faces of the two people the princess longed to see enters the room, Princess April's half-brother and his wife. All three of them embraces in a joyous greeting between family members.
"It's good to see you again," says Queen Gerda.
"Congratulations on completing your training," adds King Gwen.
"Thank you," replies Princess April. "It's great to be back. Unfortunately it's going to be for a while."
"Well sit and tell us everything," exclaims Queen Gerda.
An hour later Princess April drunk her tea, ate her cucumber sandwich, and told King Gwen and Queen Gerda everything about her mission.
"I understand," says King Gwen as he stands up. "You better get going if you want to complete your mission as soon as possible."
A half hour later the three of them are standing in the gateway, with Princess April mounting the horse she rode to get there.
"Come back once you are done," exclaims King Gwen. "I have something I want to send back to Floralia with you."
"I will," replies Princess April. "I'll be back by nighttime." Giving her horse the signal to go she heads for where the man who killed her mother was banished to.
An hour later she reaches the edge of what looks like a desert. The area is just a patch of dried dirt. There isn't a sign of life anywhere, not even a blade of grass. All Princess April sees is a hut a ways off in the distance.
"So this is the fate my father suffers," sighs Princess April. "According to the story about my mother being The Snow Queen, The False Mirror casts a curse on the land to reflect its owner's feelings. If the owner is sad, then the land is covered in eternal snow, but with anger in the heart, fire plagues the land." She dismounts from her horse and walks across the border into the cursed area. She is hit by scorching heat, so she creates a snow cloud above her and cools down immediately with it. She continues walking towards the hut.
A moment later Princess April is in front of the door to the hut.
"The door's not locked!" calls a voice from inside, before she knocks on the door. Princess April opens the door and enters the hut. She sees what looks like an old man in the middle of the hut, but she knows better. This is the man whose brother was taken during The Snow Queen era. Then as he traveled the world looking for a way to bring down The Snow Queen, he fell in love with the person who once was the one he wanted to kill. Then he killed her before she gave birth to Princess April.
"Snow Queen, how did you survive?" gasps the old man, before he starts throwing whatever is nearby. Princess April quickly forms a wall of ice in front of her to block the projectiles. She then grabs her shield by the handles she made on her side of the wall and snaps it from the floor of the hut. She creates a blizzard in between her and the old man to block his vision and charges at him. She then creates a block of ice behind the man's feet. When Princess April tackles him he trips on the block of ice and she pins him to the floor with their faces close to each other's.
"Wait a minute, your eyes are different," exclaims the man.
"That is because I'm not Snow White, nor am I The Snow Queen," answers Princess April. "You killed Snow White. I am the child you had with her. My name is April."
"You're… my daughter," gasps the man. "I faintly remember her telling me that I'm going to be a father."
"That's what happens when you focus too much on a bad thing that happened in the past," explains Princess April. "You stop paying attention to anything else that you forget what's most important, in your case it was that The Snow Queen is no more."
"Mother was an innocent victim during that era," continues Princess April. "After The False Mirror was broken, mother returned to herself and her first-born son was healed. It should have ended there. However, what you've done is bring those times back, this time you are the cause of it. You had been wrapped up in the past that you've become like The Snow Queen."
"I have?" asks the man.
"Yes Father," replies Princess April as she climbs off the man. "Come with me outside your door to see what Flora is reflecting upon you to show you that I'm right." The man and Princess April only take one step outside the man's hut. Once the man sets his eyes on the wasteland in front of him he falls to his knees.
"I can't believe how blind I've been," says the man. "And I even took a life. I never seen my brother when he returned from captivity. He is probably dead by now."
"Father, he is not dead," exclaims Princess April. "After he was freed and mother returned back to herself, she made sure all of her victims were taken care of. Your brother now has a wife and kids. He told them that you were a good brother, you tried to save him as he was being taken away."
"I'm glad for that," smiles the man as he glows. "Will you tell him that I'm off to another adventure, and that I'll see him when it's his turn to do the same. Make sure to tell him that I wish the best for him and his new family."
"Of course I will," nods Princess April.
"Thank you," says the man before disappearing in a puff of glowing dust, leaving behind a stone. Once he is gone the land around the hut suddenly springs up grass, trees, and flowers. Princess April picks up the stone left behind as she stands up. She rides back to her half-brother's kingdom, she stops by the man's brother's house to relay her father's dying words.
Princess April spends the night in King Gwen and Queen Gerda's castle. The next morning, as she is walking towards her horse, King Gwen comes up to her and hands her a small bottle with clear liquid inside it.
"What is this?" asks Princess April.
"Gerda's Golden Child tears," responds King Gwen. "I have heard of what happened with Ross years ago. However, I couldn't send this sooner because of the risk of it getting stolen. Back when Hansel became the first Golden Child, people started hunting his descendants down to use their gift for their own gain. Our great-uncle hunted them to kill them. So to protect Gerda, I'm keeping her safe here. Only to send a bottle of tears out using delivery people I know will get it to those that need these tears safely. I can think of no one better than one of Flora's guardians, you."
"I am honored you think of me that way," replies Princess April. She then mounts her horse and rides off back to Floralia, fighting off roadway bandits.