Frozen Untold:The Ice Protector. Beginnings

Chapter 25

Nevertheless, we had come to the point where an expansion had become necessary. Elsa was becoming more and more at ease with normality every day. She was keeping close to her promise that she had made on day one. I had started to occupy my spare time with a more substantial amount of trade work from John. We had by this stage created an informal partnership where I did the maths and he did all the talking. I couldn't have done the talking even if I wanted to as I would have been useless due to being isolated for most of the time. John still had all the authority and if I declared that something didn't add up in my opinion and I advised John to reject the offer, he could choose to ignore me and go on ahead and do his own thing by making the deal anyway. However, he did this ever so rarely and the only time that comes to mind is with the contract with Weselton which I didn't like but he loved. The numbers that I dealt with showed that they would be taking more than they could give us , but John ignored me saying that he knew the duke personally and that I must have made a mistake. He then signed a long-term deal with them. Despite this, we had started to together represent Arendelle as one of the highest powers in the queue of smaller kingdoms of the land. Elsa on the other hand was also speeding up her tailoring to a business level. She had begun creating wonderful pieces of artwork in the form of dresses in next to no time at all. The usual time was about one every five days to design, and then make about four a day for a week of a similar style and design. After one month since finishing my uniform, she had made enough full and nearly unique outfits to be able to fill an entire rail of clothing. Once this rail was filled, she didn't slow down either. She just continued to make more and more on top of still completing all duties and a little spare time just to sit and tone it all down. Both of us did this for about half an hour each day. With the outfits that she couldn't squeeze onto the rail, she began a pile of them which soon filled halfway up the wall out of arms reach for us both (this was not too big a factor as I was only one inch taller than Elsa). After two months had gone past, the garments started to cover the entire wall over so that the wallpaper and paint couldn't be seen anymore. Wondering what we were going to do with all this clothing, I came up with a master plan. I knew that the servants were getting tired of trotting about and getting all this material with no rewards, so, to get rid of some of it, both of us agreed that we should give every servant one of the dresses as a thank you for their labour. So we did this and got rid of twenty of them. We even gave the male staff some too as they would be able to give it to their wives or girlfriends on a special occasion to make themselves look good for free. This was phase one of the plan. Phases two was to get rid of the rest of the dresses like anyone else who made dresses would have to. We sold them off. The plan was genius as it gave Elsa the chance to make some money of her own instead of relying on the riches of her parents. But, when it started to roll in, she said to me that she had no need for it as she already had plenty of her own that she rarely used anyway. I tried to tell her that it was the fact that she had earned it that counted not the money itself. In my head I thought she was going to just stop it altogether. But what she did was far nobler than that deed. The agreement was that we priced all the dresses at twenty currencies and gave them to Martha to take and sell at the daily market on the streets of Arendelle. Once sold the twenty was split up. Five went to Martha for her trouble, five to the cost of manufacturing the dress, and the rest was supposed to go to Elsa. This was a huge success and after three months the wall had been cleared of dresses. Martha was over the moon as she had made a complete killing out of it. I had paid off the debt in full that had been lingering over the cost of the materials and Elsa had made her first true earnings. Thinking about that, she had done before I had. But the nobility was that she bypassed all the money and put every penny into the Arendelle fund that would go to help to poor in the town with the basic resources that were needed. When counted she had made four hundred and fifty dresses in total so hereby putting four and a half grand into the fund. And yet they still thought little of her for not coming out in public as the fun loving Anna did from the castle walls where she shouted hello from most mornings. Despite the fact that all the money went into the fund she still asked me to keep a record of the amount that she had actually earned. I took this as her way on complementing me on my mad maths skills even though she probably had no intentions of that.