Got It and Ran? ( ? )?

Our clever, adorable, well-behaved, and quick-witted little princess Annie of the Gray Order had spent several days playing in the icy, frozen wastelands of Freljord alongside a certain blue-skinned, bald-headed, bearded Archmage with explosive magic. They'd gotten along pretty well.

At least, they had at first. As for how things turned out...

At first, she'd spent several days traveling through the frozen wilderness with that bald Archmage, old man Ryze, as part of a caravan made up of Avarosan merchants and a few Winter's Claw traders... Then she'd personally stepped in and frozen a good number of those enormous bugs that were native to the snowy tundra and supposedly immune to the cold, killing them with her Frostfire.

Then, later that very same day, she'd gotten into a serious fight with a demigod, a giant ice phoenix named Anivia. She'd nearly beaten her to death, and beaten her very, very, very badly... but in the end, that reborn bird had still been forced to thank her profusely?

She'd even had her Little Bear Tibbers burn a huge horde of man-eating trolls to death on a stormy, snowy night??(エ)??ノ? That included the Troll King, a fellow supposedly named Trundle. Not one of them had escaped. They were all now buried beneath the thick snow near the ruins of that possibly collapsed ice castle.

In short,

Although she hadn't found the snowman that ate children—The one her bad-mom Amoline had mentioned so many times—in that frozen, icy world, all in all, Annie had still had a wonderful time in Freljord.

However...

In the end, when she and that weird old man Ryze reached the little village where the World Rune was located, she'd still snuck off and run away all by herself, without a shred of loyalty...

It wasn't because the great,