Cold Hearted

Curious Thoughts

Elena POV

"Well.... that's odd...."

Harry muttered under his breath as he carefully put the false bottom of the drawer onto the desk. We both looked down into the drawer with the utmost curiosity and both seemed equally as confused... inside was a compass which laid neatly on top of.... a map of sorts. It's... strange that out of all of dad's precious things he'd put a simple map and compass in the false bottom on his desk,

".... why not just put this one with the others on the wall?"

Harry pondered, and that was a really good question, why was this map under a false bottom instead of on the wall where the other maps were? I slowly took the compass out of the drawer so I could carefully take out the map, due to its safekeeping there wasn't much dust on it but I lightly blew on the surface to get rid of any regardless. The map looked old for sure, its corners and edges were tattered and worn, the colors were faded but still visible,

"There must be something special about it"

I muttered as we both looked down at the map, it had Arendelle in it, Northuldra in it, and..... the Dark Sea? I've never heard of a Dark Sea before... I followed the black dashed line that had woven from Arendelle, through the fjord and out, into the mysterious Dark Sea, and saw it lead to-

Wait.... What?!

I gasped and immediately knew why this map was hidden... I stared at it in awe for a moment as I swore I was seeing things, but no... I could barely believe that I was looking at this right now! I knew it existed, but I had no clue where it was or that there was a map to it! Goodness! Let alone that it's so close to home!

"What? What is it darlin'?"

Harry asked. I stared at the map and swept my hand over the spot I was looking at, just to make sure it was real and all! I pointed to the place on the map and looked up at Harry for a moment to allow myself to be excited!

"Ahtohallan.... that's why this map has been hidden Harry.... it leads to Ahtohallan"

I said in absolute shock, I had no clue there was a MAP leading to that place! This is crazy! I was still in absolute disbelief when Harry spoke,

"Ahtohallan... I've heard that before haven't I?"

I looked up at him for a moment with a smile of disbelief and nodded profusely,

"Where the north wind meets the sea, there's a river full of memory! That lullaby is about Ahtohallan! I knew it was a real place... but I never knew there was a way to be lead there! No wonder it's been hidden, Ahtohallan is a sacred place!"

I excitedly spoke, Harry was hit with the realization and suddenly looked rather surprised. He ran his hand through his hair and took it all in for a moment as I stared at the map some more... I noticed a piece of paper underneath where the map had laid and pulled it out too. It looked like some... code of sorts? I carefully gave the map to Harry for a moment to pick up the codes of sorts to examine them further. It had all these symbols on it all in either light blue or dark blue beside the yellow sun symbol, but there was a note on the corner of the paper that was in English so read it out loud,

" "The end of the ice age, the river found but lost... magic source? Elsa's source?" What.... what could that mean?"

I asked no one in particular, Harry looked at the note and slowly took the paper from me to look at further as I carefully took the map from him and began putting things back in the drawer. Harry paused for a moment before looking at the symbols more in-depth, he let his finger trail underneath the symbols he seemed to be reading to a point and brought the paper in front of me to look at,