Chapter 4: Seat

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ANNA SCREAMED as she awoke, looking around fearfully as she realized that she was only dreaming. She clung to her blankets and tears rolled down her cheeks.

Since she burned the assassin alive by accident, she has been unable to sleep without constant nightmares. Absolutely nothing was working to stop the onslaught and it was driving her insane. She needed to pull herself together. The last thing she needed on top of the stress of being queen was for her to be suffering from another internal conflict.

Since her talk with Grand Pabbie a few days ago, she had been wondering what he meant by an 'internal struggle'. What other conflict did she have to deal with? What else could be plaguing her mind? She had no answers for those questions and it was beginning to worry her.

"My Queen, are you alright?" A voice called.

Anna turned and had not realized that her maid, Alina, had entered the room. She was a very loyal servant and was as close as a sister was to Anna. She did not want her to worry for her any more than she already did.

"No, it's nothing," Anna said, "Just a bad dream,"

"Okay then," Alina said, "Is there anything you need, my Queen?"

"Uh, yeah, run a bath for me," Anna said.

Alina nodded and left the room. She slowly got out of bed and sighed. She had to pretend that everything was all right. Balder and Kristoff were right; she needed to pull herself together for the sake of her people. She was the Queen of Arrendelle and it was a duty she could not relinquish.

KRISTOFF WALKED down the streets of Arrendelle with Sven. With winter nearing its end, his free time from working as 'Ice Master and Deliverer' of Arrendelle was nearing its end as well.

Even though he had free time, Kristoff never actually spent it relaxing. Sure, playing around with Anna and Elsa, when she was alive, was relaxing, but he never spent time relaxing while doing the things he wanted. He was always preparing for his next working season as 'Ice Master' that his free time went by without him really spending time doing relaxing things by himself.

Since there were only a few weeks before winter would come to an end, Kristoff decided to spend some time doing what he wanted. Today, he was going to visit the Trolls, work on his songs and spend time with Sven.

He was on his way to buy Sven some carrots when he heard a commotion.

"What's that?" Kristoff asked as he looked around.

He followed the source of the noise to a corner of the street and saw a crowd of people. He approached the crowd and saw a man standing atop a box, speaking to them.

"How long? How long will those who call themselves royalty hide behind stone walls and guards while we are left prey to those criminals?" The man said, "Well, I say, no more!"

"No!" The people responded.

"We will no longer stand by while the Queen shirks her duties and hides up in her castle," The man said, "We are the people of Arrendelle and we are tired of being pushed around by those marauders and our cries being ignored by the Queen,"

The man continued his ranting and Kristoff saw that he was riling up the people.

"Come on, Sven," Kristoff said.

Kristoff walked away from the crowd, leading Sven.

ANNA SAT back in her chair, looking at Kristoff in disbelief.

"You sure?" Anna asked.

"I'm worried," Kristoff said, "The people are getting upset and how long before they become violent towards you and anyone connected to you?"

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