Frozen

Chapter 1: Beware the Frozen Heart

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A set of footsteps could be heard walking along a large lake that was thickly frozen over with ice. A figure raised a long saw blade and jammed it into the ice. Several more tall, burly men dressed in winter gear followed, all of them sawing into the frozen lake.

🎵All: "Born of cold and winter air and mountain rain combining. This icy force both foul and fair has a frozen heart worth mining."🎵

Several men holding what looked like small pitchforks jammed them into the ice and broke off several long rectangles of ice that the other workers had cut through.

🎵All: "So cut through the heart, cold and clear, strike for love and strike for fear, see the beauty sharp and sheer, break the ice apart. And break the frozen heart."🎵

A small little boy with blonde hair carrying a set of large tongs stepped off a wagon, while a cute little baby reindeer followed behind him. The boy offered the reindeer a carrot, which took a bite, and then the boy took a bite himself.

The ice workers used their own tongs to pull ice blocks out of the water, while others used pickaxes to split the large blocks into smaller cubes.

🎵All: "Hup! Ho! Watch your step, let it go! Hup! Ho! Watch your step, let it go!"🎵

The little boy watched the other workers yank big blocks of ice out of the water with their tongs, but when he tried to do it, the tongs slipped.

🎵All: "Beautiful, Powerful, Dangerous, Cold. Ice has a magic, can't be controlled. Stronger than one, stronger than ten, stronger than a hundred men! Huh!"🎵

While the boy was still struggling to get his own block of ice out of the water, the other men where sliding the giant ice blocks across what remained of the frozen lake to load them up into several sleds.

🎵All: "Born of cold and winter air and mountain rain combining, this icy froth both foul and fair, has a frozen heart worth mining."🎵

The sun had begun to set now, and several lanterns were lit illuminating the men and the ice in a greenish glow, as the workers continued to hit the ice blocks with their pickaxes, breaking them down into smaller cubes.

🎵All: "Cut through the heart, cold and clear, strike for love and strike for fear."🎵

The little boy finally managed to get his little block out of the water just as the rest of the men finished loading the ice into the carts.

🎵All: "There's beauty and there's danger here, split the ice apart."🎵

As the main carts began to leave, the little boy quickly carried his small block onto his tiny sled, and the little reindeer pulled him and his block along the snow.

🎵All: "Beware the frozen heart..."🎵

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The Northern lights shined brightly down onto a large magnificent castle. Inside one of the rooms, a little boy with short white hair was sound asleep in his bed.