The Rift

Chapter 7

              She was softer than Marie expected. The young woman found her hands trembling at the thought. Mattias rubbed his eyes and eyed her. "You alright?"

Marie jumped. "Y-yeah! Sorry." She and Mattias were in the library, the morning sun casting rays upon the piles of books through the lightly dusty area. "I think I found something else. Right here." The dark-skinned man rose from his wooden chair and leaned over the table to peer at the book in her hands. "It's another name. In my world, the man who "discovered" North America was named Christopher Columbus. This book says his name is Christopher Columebus." She withdrew it. "I kind of like that better, actually..."

"Morning!" They looked up to see a cheery redhead prancing towards them, her arm waving in the air. "Want some pancakes? Kristoff got carried away with them again."

"Good morning, Your Highness." Mattias bowed. "There is nothing of concern to report from last night's patrols or this morning. There was a sighting of an ice slide coming down from one of the castle balconies in the middle of the night again, however. Also, the position you asked about is open and ready." Anna crossed her arms when Marie let out a nervous chuckle.

"Did she at least thaw the fjord this time?" The queen asked. Marie nodded. The ginger looked around before asking, "Where is Elsa?"

"Sleeping," Marie said. The general and royal grew silent. The young woman blew out air from her mouth. "We've been doing some research that I think you should hear about!"

"Yes!" The General responded quickly, noticing Marie's change of topics. "I think that as well!" Anna raised her eyebrow but settled half her bottom on the table, adjusting her simple grey dress. "Lady Marie has been in the library since four this morning. I found her at six and have been helping her research for the past three hours. We've taken breaks to work on her combat skills like you requested."

"Since four?" Anna asked. "Why so early?"

Marie bit her lip as she carefully plucked a book from a small pile in front of her. "Couldn't sleep. So, I started in a general history book," she stated, turning the thick brown book towards Anna. "In the movies, Frozen was set around 1840, and my world was in the year 2020, so I thought that I had simply jumped back in time. But when I started looking in here, I noticed that there are little differences between our worlds that are too common to be grammar mistakes. For one, Britain's most famous author is named Willam Shakespeare in this world, but I've always known him as William Shakespeare. Here!" Anna jumped as Marie dropped another book on top of the history book. She flicked it open to a page that was being kept by another book. Anna noticed that most books on the table were sandwiched in this manner. "George Washington damaged an apple tree, not a cherry tree." She side-stepped and opened a yellow book. "Hans Christian Anderson, the man who wrote the book that the Frozen movies are based off, doesn't exist." A blue book was thrown open. "Dinosaurs have already been documented versus just starting to be discovered." She pointed to another brown history book. "Mona Lisa's name was Delilah when we don't even know her name, Chris Columbus has a different name, some of the United States' battles have slightly different dates, and this is the biggest one." Marie placed a Christian bible in front of Anna. "Thomas wasn't depicted as such an asshole for doubting Jesus, it rained for forty-one days during Noah's ark, and this version of the bible is just way more literal in its translation than any that I've ever known!"

Anna shut her mouth that was hanging open. "Wait, what?"

"It's a different dimension, Your Highness," Mattias said.