Lady Tremaine was sitting in her room while Rebecca busily unpacked her things, finding a proper place for everything. The carriage with the rest of their belongings had finally arrived when she and Sir Richard were at the chapel. She sat in a faded green velvet chair near a window that overlooked the courtyard. It was lightly dusted with snow, and Lady Tremaine wondered if her journey to the Many Kingdoms had been longer than she had thought. Surely it hadn’t taken more than two months to make their journey. Could it truly be winter already? She found herself musing at how lovely it would be for Anastasia and Drizella to have snow on Christmas, like they might have in London, and with that she felt a little bit more at home. Her things didn’t look quite right in her new room. It was cavernous, and rather sparse with furnishings that looked as though they had been chosen many years before, and they weren’t at all to her taste. She sighed and decided to look out the window again, losing herself in the snow-covered garden. She felt very thankful the holiday season was already upon them and hoped it would bring all of them together as a family.

“Rebecca, have you had any luck finding the book of fairy tales now that our things have arrived?” asked Lady Tremaine.

“Not yet, my lady. I’ll be sure to give it to you the moment I find it,” Rebecca said as Nanny Pinch came into the room with Anastasia and Drizella.

“Ah, my lovely girls,” Lady Tremaine said, reaching out her arms so they could come in for hugs. “How are you, my darlings? I presume Nanny Pinch is helping you get settled in your new rooms?”

“Yes, Mama, but we hate it here. Cinderella is rude, the house is empty, and we hate Sir Richard!” said Anastasia.

“It’s true, Mama, we hate it. We thought you were bringing us to a magical place, not some old stone house in the middle of nowhere. We can’t even see the castle from here,” added Drizella.

Cinderella came into the room just then, in time to hear Drizella’s complaint.

“That’s not true, Drizella, you can see a view of the castle from the attic tower.”

Drizella just scoffed in response.

“Now, now, Drizella, be sweet to your new sister,” said Lady Tremaine.

“She’s not our sister!” said Anastasia.

Nanny Pinch was about to scold both of the girls when Lady Tremaine did her best to create a diversion to appease all of them.