I rebranded to astaralys now that I'm shifting into original projects but I'm very much still the same snow sisters supporter. I've just levelled up with an interest in game dev and picked up pixel art as well, so you'll be seeing less frozen content and more me content
you can find me on these places:
twitter (listen I am not calling it X): https://twitter.com/astaralys
bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/astaralys.bsky.social
ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/astaralys
I'm part of a studio! have you read our webcomic oneshot, Midnight Hour?: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/midnight-hour/list?title_no=872088
But what's happening with TNU, you ask? I admit I have much less time for fic now but still very much enjoy TNU and hope to see it to completion. It's something that sporadically crosses my mind, and when I reread what I've written, I fall in love with the story all over again. So I pick at it during my commute and lunch breaks. We'll get there slowly!
in the meantime, please enjoy this wip chapter 23 scene join me in my struggle to remember what happened in ch 22, it's been 84 years
As always, thank you so much for following my journey and reading my stories. I really want to finish writing TNU for us, and hope you wouldn't mind sticking around for my foray into original stories beyond that. I've been writing fanfic for over a decade (oof my back ached typing that) and knowing every word I've written has been read and enjoyed by at least one person has made me the writer I am today. Thank you for finding my words!
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There was nothing quite like the slipperiness of blood. A slickness that smeared and clung to everything and anything, as if it already knew there was no way to return to the veins from which it had gushed. Its new purpose was to stain and horrify. If it could, with its sheer, crimson volume, petrify those that had evicted it from its rightful body, then its existence had purpose. A river, it would become.Â
âYour Highness! Are you hurt?â Ronny. A familiar face. An anchor.
âI⊠y-yes. I mean, no. The⊠the bloodâs not mine.â Kristoff made to get up and slipped. Instead of hitting the marble floor, though, his knee crunched into unmoving flesh. It was a small blessing he hadnât speared himself on one of the dozen crossbow bolts protruding from the manâs torso like a pincushion.Â
Herman dragged him upwards and back, none too gently. âWeâll guard the prince! Make sure these bastards are really dead.â
âWaitââ Bile overtook words. Kristoff dropped to all fours and retched.Â
Scattered words swirled around him as his guards waded through the bodies. ââthat big talk about their military. These idiots fought like lumps of wood!â
âAny news from the general? Did we manage to intercept their fleet?â
âStill canât see a thing out there; the fjordâs completely covered in mist after the wall fell. How did they break Princess Elsaâs magicââ
âForget that! The queen and princess are missingâwe need a search partyââ
âWith what men? Weâre already stretched thin as iceââ
Ice. If heâd kept his head down and continued hacking at the frozen tundra and going home to his family of trolls, he wouldnât be here, crouched in a lake of dark red. Staring at a canopy of death spattered across the hallway like the reaper itself had danced with a conductorâs wand. How easily could he have been one of those bodies splayed out across the same floor Anna always slid down in her socks, laughing and crashing into his arms? Where was Anna? What if she was lying in a ditch somewhere, just likeâ
âOi! Got a live one here!â
âYou telling me this runt was the commander of this freak show? What, did you use your own soldiers as meat shields? You cowardly littleââ
Kristoff looked up to see his men crowded around a huddled figure. If these southerners hadnât brought swords and bloodlust to Arendelle⊠if they hadnât spilled mortality in these sunny hallsâŠÂ
Donât be pathetic, Bjorgman.Â
âLet me talk to him,â Kristoff rasped.Â
âSir, this scum tried to kill youââ
âTrust me, Iâve noticed.âÂ
The soldiers quietened. A few stepped away from their quarry, blinking like they had snapped out of a trance. Kristoff knew them all by name, but when they had come to his rescue in a flurry of unforgiving steel, he momentarily couldnât recognise them. But he recognised himself in their sudden cruelty. They werenât baying for bloodâ they were afraid for themselves, their families, their homes. They needed a leader, and Mattias was out the fjord.Â
Come on, Lord Regent, he could hear Anna teasing. Youâre in charge when Iâm gone, remember?
But youâre not gone, Kristoff thought. Youâre safe with Elsa somewhere, and youâll come back to me.Â
He rose to his feet. Heâd kept his balance on cliffsides and frozen lakes; he could stomach standing on solid ground, nauseatingly slippery as it was. He stopped before the only survivor of the Islesâ ambush party.
âLetâs hear what the crown prince of the Southern Isles has to say. Thatâs you, right? Jesper Westergaard?â
Spindly shoulders jerked. Bitter memories of another sneering, auburn-haired prince made Kristoffâs fists and jaw tighten.Â
âYour father sent you into our tunnels to secure the castle, didnât he? Bet he didnât expect us to be waiting for you. Heâs probably sitting on the fjord in his big ship, waiting for you to open the gates for him.â
The princeâs sword tinkered on the floor. Herman pushed Kristoff behind him, but Jesper made no move to attack. He only kept his head bowed and rocked slightly on his heels, clenching and unclenching his hand on his sword. Staring down at him, Kristoff realised their adversary was more boy than man.
What would Anna do?
Giving Herman the standby signal, Kristoff knelt down in front of Jesper. âCalm down. Work with us, and no one else needs to get hurt.â
Jesperâs glazed stare remained unerringly fixed on his shoes. Kristoff saw pale lips moving, though. He cautiously leaned in.
âHurry up hurry up hurry upâŠâ
Kristoff waved a hand in front of the princeâs face. âHey. Can you hear me?â
â⊠up hurry up hurryââ The frenetic whispering halted abruptly as Jesperâs head snapped up. Dilated pupils locked on Kristoffâs, swimming in fear and adrenaline and⊠triumph?
A shiver slithered up Kristoffâs spine.Â
Freshly spilled blood could melt snow. Yet it only struck him now, as his soldiers let out shocked cries and whipped out their swords for the second time, that the blood he had been kneeling in was icy enough to chill him to the bone.
Jesper finally met Kristoffâs eyes. He wiped his nose on his sleeve, a wicked smile spreading on his face. âBe a good sport and remember to scream, yeah?â
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