They were riding for an hour now. The chilly winds rushed to meet their faces and the only thing they could hear was the sound of the wind blowing the trees as they rode half the way back in silence. Robin, why are you late?! Aphrodite thought, concerned. She was then the first to break the silence after remembering the day Elsa was born. "It's not her fault." She said sternly. The king was already sleepy himself, and his mind was drown in his own thoughts. Her voice snapped him to attention and he replied with a distracted, "Hmm?"
Aphrodite took a deep breath, trying hard to stop herself from just to run at him and start strangling him. "I said… It wasn't. Elsa's. Fault." She repeated slowly in determination, so that her husband could hear her clearly.
"I don't want to hear anything about it, now." He replied with a groan before he turned his head to face the road ahead of them.
"YES!" She laughed sarcastically and agreed mockingly, "You don't want to hear anything about it, now!... In fact, you never wanted to hear anything about her! You're always thinking about your god damn role as a king that you forgot about your own daughters!" She said angrily in a low volume, trying not to wake her daughters. Anger started to grow in her with every word she said.
"Should I remind you why we are here!?" He replied with a frown, "It's because of my daughter-" He spelled the words my daughter in a mocking way before he continued, "-that Anna was this close to die and that the troll froze into a god damn ICE SCULPTURE!...Andmy daughter's fault that you nearly died bringing her to life… MY DAUGHTER's fault that Arendelle might get trapped in an unending winter at any second!... MYYY DAUGHTER'S FAULT ARENDELLE WON'T HAVE AN HEIR!" He yelled the last sentence and sent echoes in the mountains. The two young girls shifted but luckily they were too tired and sleep defeated them.
"If you don't want Elsa to take the throne that much, at least there's Ann-" She tried to argue but was cut off by him.
"I WANT A KING!... Arendelle needs a KING!" He couldn't help but to yell, now. He was furious. "So tell me, Queen Aphrodite of Arendelle… How is it not her fault after she did all those sins?!" He said with a clear mocking, disturbing voice while pointing at Elsa with his chin.
"Sins?! She's just a child!" Aphrodite couldn't understand how could someone rule a kingdom and be cruel to a little girl. Not just that… But also his little girl.
"The prophecy clearly showed that she's capable of doing horrible things none normal child can! And all what happened tonight proves it! I won't stand there, arms crossed while I wait for my own kingdom to be buried in snow by a monster in front of my eyes. I cannot allow it! My duty as The King of Arendelle is to protect it at any cost, even if it means locking her away. You are lucky I didn't cut her head off the day she was born! The prophe-" He tried to continue but was cut of by Aphrodite.
"The prophecy, the prophecy, the GOD DAMN prophecy!" She said mockingly, "That's all what you listen to." She scoffed then, "Well how about I tell you a .! The Troll's prophecy actually!-" she taunted with a smirk, "You see, it says that Arendelle will be trapped in an unending winter because of a ruler with a frozen heart! " She laughed this time, "Ironically, you were afraid all this time of a 6 years old girl! Just imagine it in the history book of the rulers of Arendelle. 'King Jamie Of Arendelle afraid of his six year old daughter.'" She teased while gesturing with her open hand an imaginary horizontal line in front of her as if she was conjuring a vision. "Now that will be a nice laugh for the reader, don't you think?"
"Shut up." The king whispered. His anger started to creep out again.
"Nonono, really!" She said with a laugh, "It's just that... The fact that you thought that she was the ruler with-"
