The Snow Queen

The Snow Queen looks down on her icy kingdom with her icy stare. Her glades looked down over her balcony to where her army stood, standing when word of their departure. After centuries of luring children into an unnatural blizzard of her making. When the child was in her clutches, she would put a mirror-shard where their heart would be. To put them under a spell that would slowly eat away at their humanity until what is left an obedient future soldier's empty shell. With every new soldier she gathered, her army grew

Looking down once more at her army, she smiled in a devilish glee that would send a shiver down anyone's spine. She turned away from her balcony view and into the empty and vast halls of her icy fortress.

There was only just one more thing to do before her army made their attack on the other kingdoms. To kidnap and sacrifice the crown prince Kai and absorb his magical aura. If she were to take over the other kingdoms, she would have to be on top of her game. But she would better act fast since the Prince is planned to wed by the month-end, less than a week. He was marrying a commoner by the name Gerda Anderson. The two were apparently courting in secret for over a year before announcing their engagement six months ago. And what follows the announcement was followed by not just the nobles' uproar. But the most disappointed was Kai's parents, the king and queen of Darkwood. Since they hoped their son would choose someone who was more educated. But they did nothing since Kai was the only heir to the throne. Thanks to her underground network of changeling spies, all of the information that the Snow Queen needed was effortless for her to gather.

But the more important thing she needed was everything that there is to know about the human female, Gerda, since she would be the key to getting in and out of the castle without raising the alarm. There wasn't anything that special about her, just an orphan who grew up as a ward of some noble family that used her as a maid until she met Kai at a three-day festival and fell in love.

Love, just like anything that deals with a human, their life is full of seemingly pointless moments that add up to not making a difference in the world. The Snow Queen has lived a long life to know how pointless love can be. In the end it will end in heartache, one way or another.

The clicking of her heels echoed off the glassy wall as she made her way deep into the castle. She was just outside her chamber, where two troll guards kept looking at any unwelcome visitors. As she approaches, the guards' quickly look down, not wanting to trigger their icy mistress' wrath. Unlike humans, the trolls weren't unpredictable and very obedient. The Snow Queen smiled at that, and once she took over the human kingdoms, they would soon follow. Just like the trolls, it wouldn't take long for humans to fall in line.

All that was keeping her from that reality was nothing more. Making her way into her chamber, the echo of closing the door closed, leaving her alone. In the chamber lie what looks like a source of her success, The Pond of Mirrors. And the source of her dark, icy magic. It was the key to how she made it this far in her plan of an enteral winter kingdom.