Reincarnated Ice Warmer (GxG)

Chapter 26

~ Art preparations, part 1 ~

Narrator POV:

Elsa and Diana are standing in one of the several halls that the castle has available, in silence, waiting for Kai to bring in the person that Rosa hired for this 'job'.

Of course, the silence is shortly broken by the Queen and her out loud thoughts to herself "How did it come to this?" Which the maid heard.

Ah, Diana can remember as if it happened just yesterday, well it did happen in six 'yesterdays'. So she gets Elsa's attention by speaking to her "Cheer up, Queen, this isn't so bad"

"Standing still in one place for hours doesn't sound so appealing or anything to be 'cheerful' about, even if it's far less than it'd be normally," Elsa says back.

"I suppose so, but it's going to be fun" Diana says back with a smile.

"How exactly?"

"Well, normally this would be a hassle, but with your help, this will be done quite effortlessly"

Elsa hums at that while making a few snowflakes and ice particles come out of her hand "This idea of yours, it's quite efficient, to say the least, I am still trying to wrap my head around your... plans in all of this"

"Is it that odd to see me do this?" Diana asks Elsa interested in knowing.

"Mhm, it's a surprise, a pleasant one"

"Well, I am just full of surprises" The maid can't help but boast.

"That, you are, that, you are..." Elsa trails off to her mind again to think about what went down, yet again, she can't get over how different Diana seemed while strategizing with Rosa.

Almost a week ago, in the meeting between the three women.

"So, Diana, could you explain to me about this 'posing'?" The Queen asks her maid.

"Certainly, these dolls of me, they are on the smaller scale... We are going to go BIG and how do we do that? Well obviously, paintings, works of art, masterpieces and we'll be posing for them"

"Paintings? Won't it take too long to make them? And why am I posing for them with you exactly?"

"No, timewise, it will be just perfect for what I have in mind, and why pose with the Queen? Well to show everybody that Scarlet Angel is taken and is working as the Queen's Maid, not only destroying the various rumors of what I am doing in the process, but it will get most of the men to back off away from me, not wanting to incur the Queen's wrath. Oh and before you think that I'm 'using' the Queen's name for my own benefits... Well, okay, it is for me, but it's also for Rosa, our plans and there is one thing you get out of it, Queen"

"Well, I'm glad that you're at least self-aware about what you're doing... What's this 'one' thing?"

"Well, of cour-"

"You'd better not say that I get to show the people of Arendelle that I 'own' you or something, is that 'one' thing" Elsa interrupts the Maid.

"Oh... No, that intention is an added bonus and hopefully a fact in the future, those same people of Arendelle, really like you, Queen Elsa, you're a hit with them especially with the younger folk, so these paintings, that they could get, could increase your... 'Populiarity', that's not the best word to describe it, but it's more or less the truth... Imagine, how happy little Timmy would be if he were to get a portrait of a Queen he already admires and it just so happens to have me in there too"

"Well... It's not the worst thing in the world... Who's little Timmy though?"

"A nobody, he doesn't exist... I mean, I am sure there are children named Timmys out there, but this particular one? Just a metaphor"