Anna, Aiden, Rapunzel and Flynn ran through Arendelle's empty cold streets, trying hard enough not to be seen by anyone, not a hard task, for all Arendelle's citizens were hiding in their homes, afraid of God's rash to be released upon them at any time.
"Where is everyone?" asked Flynn while following the others.
"It doesn't matter, let's just get out of here before anyone sees us," Aiden commanded.
They reached the town's outside barn, where foreign visitors and refugee's horses are kept. They quickly mounted their horses, and galloped out to the forest. All oblivious to the blonde man's eyes on them.
Kristoff was laying behind the barn on a pile of hay, next to his sled and loyal reindeer, Sven. Growing up as an orphan is a harsh life, and definitely if you were raised alone in the streets, life can be tough, but it makes people tougher. Kristoff had no home, no family, all what he has is his ice business and reindeer. He was trying to amuse himself to sleep, singing his own written Reindeer Song, when he heard multiple voices, coming from inside the barn. "What the..?" he quickly stood up, and peeked from the window to see who was inside at such an hour, "Anna?" he whispered to himself.
There, he saw her with the others, and none of them looked happy, or even calm for that matter, none of them showed any sign of their friendly and lovable face from when he met them earlier. They all looked scared and nervous, yet Anna looked horrified, doleful, and absent, and that made him worry more.
"Come on you guys, move it move it!" Aiden motioned for the other's to get inside faster.
"Max, come here boy!.." Flynn called his white loyal horse, before he grabbed Rapunzel's hand gently, "Rapunzel, mount up." he said before mounting behind her.
"Anna come on!" Aiden was having hard times trying to keep Anna focused, her mind was still going back to the hell she saw. He groaned, "Anna, I know what we saw tonight, was….unbearable to you-" he was trying to comfort her, but she snapped at him, cutting him off.
"Unbearable for me!? Do you think what we saw is unbearable to anyone! Do you?!" she yelled at him with fury, "Stop treating me like I'm some sort of a child!"
"Anna, I didn't mean-" Aiden was trying to explain for her that he was only worried about her and the others, but Anna quickly shut him up again.
"Save it!" she held her hand up to his face, "I may have listened to you this time, but I'm not gonna let you tell me what I should and should not do!..."
"I just wanted us to get out of here safely!...i want to protect you!" he reasoned
"I don't need protection! I can take care of myself! You know that! Why are you always like that!? Why do you always treat me like I'm nothing but vulnerable! Like I can't take care of myself! Tell me! WHAT DO YOU WANT!?" she snapped back.
"I DON'T WANT YOU TO END UP LIKE NANCY!" he finally spoke his mind.
Anna quickly stopped, heartbroken, ashamed of what she was saying moments ago, her face quickly softened, and shocked as she saw tears forming on the corner of Aiden's green eyes. Rapunzel and Flynn stayed silent, and lowered their heads. Anna finally realized why Aiden was so protective of her, he was like a brother to her, they were close enough to tell anything to each other, even if it involves grief.
Nancy, Aiden's big sister, was tortured then hanged by the act of theft when she tried to steal a piece of bread for her starving 5 years old brother, Aiden. She was brought to King Ace Of Uloenna, whom sentenced her to her unfortunate death, without even hearing her plead. Aiden watched from behind the crowds, as his sister's body dangled from the gibbet. It's when he decided to take revenge. He snuck inside the king's castle, stole both his crown and sword. The next morning, Uloenna's citizens were shocked to see the king's sword hung from where Nancy's body once dangled. The sword impaled a white pigeon, while its blood dripped on the ground, on the sword's grip was the king's crown. It is a gesture of great humiliation for the monarch. In Uloenna, such an act is meant to explain one thing, Injustice. It was when Aiden met the thieves, they offered him a home, a family and a shelter away from Uloenna, in return for his cunning skills. For a 5 year old with no parents or even a family member anymore, alone in the streets, he had no choice but to accept. It was when Aiden's life as a real thief started.
