That night Honeymaren woke up feeling anxious again, at the same time than before, when the moonlight entered through the window of her room at the house she and Elsa built in their small, private place in the enchanted forest, covering in its soft gleam the bed where the young couple slept.

"What happened?" Asked Elsa when she woke up, a little bit scared by the abrupt movement her loved one did.

"I'm sorry sweetie, I didn't want to wake you up."

"Don't worry about it, what happened?" Asked Elsa, removing some hair strands from Honeymaren's forehead.

"I don't know," said the Northuldra girl, taking her partner's hand and putting it against her cheek. "I had some kind of dream, it felt so real, there were... spirits, evil spirits, they surrounded me and I didn't know what to do, I just hid," she added nervously.

"Your dreams with spirits are becoming recurring..." Said Elsa, thoughtful, wondering what could be the cause behind those dreams that started to seem like more than a mere coincidence. The spirit world was still largely unknown to her, but in her little interactions with spiritual beings she had realized their power wasn't something that should be taken lightly.

"I think it's time to talk with Yelana about this." Said Honeymaren, who had been trying to avoid taking the matter to the Northuldra Leader, hoping they were just nightmares.

"I think it's for the best, tomorrow morning we can go to the camp, for now just try to rest a little, I'm here for you, I would never let anything happen to you." Said Elsa, while she snuggled closer to Honeymaren, trying to calm her with the comfort only the heat of her body could give her.

"Thank you, those words mean everything to me." Said Honeymaren, turning her body slightly to plant a quick kiss on her girlfriend's lips. Elsa smiled and then curled up on Honeymaren's chest, the dark-haired girl surrounded her with her arms and minutes later she managed to fall asleep again.

The following morning both girls got up early, had something light for breakfast and started the trip to the Northuldra camp. Every walk that the young couple had alone through the forest was usually special, sometimes it was romantic, others entertaining and others they simply enjoyed in silence the company of their loved one, a kind and comfortable silence, in which both were privately thinking how happy they were for finding each other; they scarcely had a few months living under the same roof, but both were already wishing to share the rest of their lives together.

"Wait." Honeymaren said abruptly, suddenly interrupting the enjoyable vibe their walk had while they were walking through a dense part of the forest where the treetops obstructed the majority of the light, preventing it from touching the ground.

"What is it?" Elsa asked, stopping like her partner.

"I felt something again, something bad, a negative energy as in my sleep, only that now I am not sleeping." Honeymaren said, disconcerted, walking around to inspect her surroundings.

When she listened those words a chill ran through Elsa's back, making her feel nervous, it was like a foreign, uncomfortable, unknown kind of cold. Honeymaren began to walk instinctively around the area where they stopped, as if something was calling her; Elsa began to do the same, as if both knew that something was observing them from the shadows.

"Honey, I think I found something." Elsa said when she suddenly felt more of the foreign coldness in her soles.

Honeymaren approached her, standing at her side and observing the forest in front of them; there was something in that direction, something foreign to the forest, both of them could feel that, but, should they approach it? Should they look for help? Both were wondering what the least dangerous course of action would be.

"Honey... I can feel it in the ground," Elsa said giving a pair of steps forward, feeling the changes in the coldness under her feet. "There is something there, something with a strong magical presence that grows slowly but constantly."

"Elsa, I feel that it would be dangerous to approach it... we should go for Yelana, she will know that to do." Honeymaren said, taking Elsa by the arm and pulling gently, like trying to stop her from paying attention to the strange phenomenon they had in front of them.

"I think you're right, we should go, there's no time to lose." Elsa said, turning around to continue towards the camp.

Honeymaren felt relieved when she saw that Elsa shook off the calling from that mysterious presence... but her relief wouldn't last. The young couple had advanced barely some meters when an unexpected called stopped them.

"Elsa! Elsa are you there?! Elsa!"

Honeymaren, holding hands with the girl whose name they were shouting felt how a strong anxiety spark electrified the body of the Snow Queen when she listened to that voice; the voice of her sister, Anna.

Elsa answered nervously to Anna's voice, quickly releasing the hand of Honeymaren and running towards the place where they had just agreed not to approach.

"Elsa no!" Said Honeymaren while she, having reached her partner, hugged her hard from behind, containing her while she struggled to free herself.

"Let me go! Anna sounded worried, she needs me!" The girl said while she struggled to release herself from Honeymaren's hug.

"Please, please listen to me! That isn't your sister" a worried Honeymaren said.

"Elsa! Elsa where are you?! Come soon! Time is running out!" The voice shouted, sounding even more desperate than earlier.

After listening that Elsa felt a lot of anxiety accumulating in her body, stomped Honeymaren's foot and used the small distraction to escloak her grasp and continue towards the place from which the voice seemed to come.

"Elsa, listen to me!" Honeymaren said rubbing her toes over her boot a few seconds to relieve the pain before running again behind Elsa, but the girl from Arendelle wasn't listening; for the advantage of the young Northuldra the girl of Royal ancestry never had to train too much in physically demanding activities, for which, having trained in the forest since her childhood, she was clearly more capable.

"Anna where are you? I'm here, speak to me!" Elsa shouted, stopping at a considerable distance inside the forest, where everything was strangely darker the more they advanced.

"Elsa!" Honeymaren shouted, stopping in front of the anxious blonde girl who was looking all over the place trying to decipher from where the voice of her sister came. "Elsa come with me, please! This is a trick, it must be." The Northuldra girl was saying, trying to meet her eyes with those of the young Queen without success, since in her anxiety she was only trying to see behind her.

Suddenly, between the shrubs they had in front of them a sound came, something was moving, and suddenly Anna's figure, with a tired look and dirty and battered clothes appeared in front of them.

"Anna!" Elsa shouted, quickly going around Honeymaren and running towards her sister when behind her a big shade with the shape of an arm of an octopus or squid appeared and surrounded Arendelle's Queen, taking her back to the darkness with it, in the middle of screams and struggle.

"Anna, no!" Elsa shouted while she ran after her sister when Honeymaren appeared in front of her again, blocking her way.

"No! I'm not going to let you to go there! Your eyes deceive you, trust me!" Honeymaren said. Elsa looked directly at her eyes and for a split second the Northuldra girl felt that she had managed to make her understand.

"Elsa!" Another scream, with tints of pain and sobbing was heard in the distance; after that Honeymaren knew what would happen looking at the worried gaze her beloved had. Almost instantly Elsa reunited her strength and pushed Honeymaren, and once she was in the floor created an ice shackle around her ankle, connected to a big block of ice so that the girl would remain in place after she went for her sister.

The Northuldra girl didn't lose a second and taking a knife she was keeping in her boot she gave the ice chain multiple blows until it broke, and once free she began to run again, going after the Snow Queen; she was faster, but Elsa had begun to leave frozen spots as she ran, preventing her from getting close enough to stop her.

"No! No! I can't lose her! All this is my fault for bringing her here!" Honeymaren was saying to herself while she thought that that evil spirit could capture the only girl who made her feel something special in all her life.

"Hope is the last thing you should lose child." Said a feminine voice with a demeanor that irradiated calmness and wisdom and suddenly long bands of a brilliant crimson color and some material that Honeymaren had never seen materialized after Elsa, taking her by her ankles to make her fall down and later spreading over all her body, wrapping her from her feet to her lips with a technique worthy of the most skillful embalmer.

Honeymaren didn't understand what happened, but seeing Elsa in the floor, struggling against the crimson bands that were paralyzing her, made her feel a certain relief, knowing that she could not advance to the point where there would be no comeback.

"They are called 'The Crimson Bands of Cyttorak,' they are a spell that allow to catch almost anything, especially effective against magic." Said the female voice, to which seemingly Honeymaren alone was listening.

"Who are you? Why do you help me? And what was that thing?" Honeymaren asked to that mysterious voice to which she owed the safety of her girlfriend.

"Who I am and my motives you will know later; as for this malign presence, I suspect that you already know the answer," the voice said, always maintaining calmness and composure. "Take your partner to your camp, her mind has been played with and it will continue under that dark power until she moves far enough from its evil influence, until you get away from this place, meanwhile the bands will contain her magic and will keep her suppressed until there aren't any traces of this dark energy in her body, then they will release her.

"I... thank you." Honeymaren said, understanding that that benign presence would not answer her questions at the moment, and decided to move away as soon as possible, she approached her girlfriend, took her in her arms with gentleness worthy of a Queen and went quickly towards the way that would take them to the Northuldra camp.

Sometime after moving away from the point of the forest plunged in darkness Elsa stopped struggling and fell gently in a placid sleep, as if all that anxiety had made her exhausted.

"Sleep well." Honeymaren said, planting a kiss on her forehead while taking her gently in arms towards the Northuldra camp.

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