"Estelle, what are you doing here?" Elsa and Kristoff heard Lord Derek say from across the way. When Elsa looked over at him she found that the quivering wreck they'd brought to Grand Pabbie was gone and had been replaced by the proud noble from Weselton they'd come to know. He was holding his daughter in his arms like a piece of fine china and she lay there in perfect happiness.

"I flew with mommy," Estelle said in a sleepy voice.

"Mommy? Estelle, mommy has gone away, you know that as well as I," said Lord Derek and Elsa could hear the pain in his voice.

Estelle just shook her head. "No, mommy is over with the nice queen and the smelly man."

Lord Derek looked over at them for the first time. "Oh. Yes, there she is," and rage filled his face. He set down Estelle and thundered over to Anna. "I don't care what you are now, highness, but know this," he started until he felt Estelle, who'd followed her father over to them, pulling on his pant leg.

"She doesn't look good, daddy. I don't want mommy to go away again," said Estelle as looked down at Anna.

The scowl drained away from Lord Derek's face and was replaced by a hesitant smile. "And she won't, I promise. Now step back for a moment, flower. Mommy needs some space before we can heal her."

Lord Derek knelt down next to Anna and felt her pulse. "They must hit her with a whole armory of sunbursts." He looked around for a moment, then called out. "You, shadow thing! If you wish your mistress to survive the night then come over here."

The servitor scowled but leapt over to Lord Derek in an instant and gave him a look that said 'I'm here, now what?'

Lord Derek ignored it and turned to Anna. "Anna, you have to turn to mist now."

Anna shook her head. "No, fu … fu … you …" she said, trailing off.

Lord Derek looked up at Elsa. "Your Majesty, your sister has to turn to mist again. If she turns to mist while touching her shadow creature, she can absorb it and heal herself with its strength, you must trust me."

Elsa narrowed her eyes. "And if she dies instead? How do I know this isn't a ploy?"

"It isn't, I swear on my honor," said Lord Derek, not looking away.

Elsa nodded and turned back to Anna. "Anna, you have to turn to mist, please."

Anna shook her head again. "It hurts," she whispered and squeezed Elsa's hand.

Elsa squeezed back, then pulled her hand out of Anna's grasp and put Shadow's hand in her place. "I know, Anna, but you have to try. For me."

Anna sighed, but closed her eyes and focused like she did before. It was slow going, but Elsa could see Anna shift inch by inch back into mist form. Shadow, meanwhile, began to come apart and flow back into Anna. As it did so, Anna's form became more solid and seemed and looked to be more together.

Only after Anna had absorbed all of Shadow did she return to physical form and the change was astounding. Her broken bones were reset and many of the gashes and scrapes were gone. The bruises remained, but she didn't look as critical as she had. She fell asleep right away, but this was a true sleep, not the sleep of the dying.

"Thank you," said Elsa with tears in her eyes. Kristoff said nothing, content to hold his healthy, living Anna in his arms.

Lord Derek shook his head. "Thank Estelle."

Upon hearing her name, Estelle raced over to them. "Is mommy ok? Is she better?"

"Mommy is fine, Estelle, she just needs to sleep," said Lord Derek with a smile.

"Not. Possible," said the mirror in a dark, angry voice.

"What's wrong, brother? Things not going according to plan?" Said Grand Pabbie with a smile.

"There is still time to make it right," snarled the mirror and a dark mist began to pour out of it. "They do not have to survive this night for it to come to fruition, after all."

The mist took shape and form, becoming a massive, bearlike thing with a gaping maw filled with fangs. It began to charge at them when a burst of light flashed across the clearing and the shadow beast was no more.

Grand Pabbie lowered his hand and glared at the mirror. "Enough. You are finished, Fallen, and your plan has failed. Elsa, if you would be so kind as to restore what you had in place before."

Elsa nodded and with a wave of her hand the mirror was once again cover in ice. There were a few surges of dark energy against her barrier but they did no good and the sheet of ice held. With another flick of her wrist a small flurry appeared above the mirror and the ice sheet strengthened. "Let's see it scheme its way out of that," Elsa said with a smirk and Grand Pabbie smiled.

"Couldn't you have just left it in there if you weren't going to let it out?" Mused Kristoff as a few other trolls carefully maneuvered it into a hidden spot in the clearing.

Grand Pabbie smirked. "I could have, but then he wouldn't have gone into his prison with the full knowledge that his carefully laid plans had fallen to pieces with nary a hope of something ever coming by to let him lay them down again."

"What is it, anyway?" asked Kristoff as it vanished into the hillside.

"An artifact crafted by demons," said Lord Derek as he walked to fetch Estelle from the trolls she'd been playing with. "It was made to show God the true, ugly face of humanity so that he might reject us. They dropped it while they were carrying it up to him and it's been causing havoc here ever since. Or so the lore says," said Lord Derek with a bow to Grand Pabbie.

Grand Pabbie nodded at him. "That is not the whole truth, but it is the basic core of what happened," and he said nothing more after that.

Kristoff knew better than to push him, so he let the matter drop. "Well it's stuck now, so no sense in worrying about it I guess."

Lord Derek picked up Estelle and smiled at her. "Indeed. Now, if you don't mind, I think we should head back to Arendelle before too late. We have two very sleepy young ladies and I think that they would do better in a bed than not."

"Agreed," said Elsa as she stood up to bow to Grand Pabbie. "Thank you so much for your aid, Grand Pabbie. I hope the next time we meet it will be under less dire circumstances."

Grand Pabbie smiled. "Of course. Please return with Anna once she's healed. We would like to get to know you both a little better, after all."