A commotion outside interrupted the Chieftain's discussion with his second clone. A braying, donkey-like voice, as if a donkey had learned to speak but at the same time, was trying to keep the volume of it's voice down - and then a woman's scream!
If the commotion outside weren't enough, it was at that moment Tzipora's mother, following behind the Chieftain's every step, decided to give another of her blood-chilling cackles. "Honestly", the Mosestarian Chieftain thought to himself, "I wouldn't be too surprised to learn she was a witch!"
"Tzipora, I do very much appreciate all your efforts for our cause thus far", Moses spoke aloud, "but I must inform you that I do find having your mum following me around all the time and cackling at random intervals somewhat unnerving. Would it be possible to send her to bed, or something?"
Tzipora courtsied before the Chieftain, before gently placing her hands on the older woman's shoulders, and guiding her away to her quarters. The two women were clearly related, and both beautiful in their own ways. But the older was clearly madder than a Danbury hatter, and had a cackle that the Chieftain was yet to be convinced was not some sort of weapon for waging psychological warfare.
The Chieftain gave Mordecai a look as if to say "Why did you dethaw that one?"
Mordecai, understanding from the Chieftain's eyes the unasked question, responded "It's impossible for one to determine the sanity of a subject, or otherwise, whilst the subject is still frozen in ice."
Not wanting to get into a debate with his loyal but nonetheless poor judge-of-character cousin, the Chieftain decided to brave the below-freezing elements, to determine the source of the commotion he had heard outside earlier.
The snow was falling softly, with a bitterly cold breeze cutting through every layer of Antarctic-explorer-clothing the Mosestarian leader was wearing. The freezing temperature would probably have convinced him to give up his investigation as soon as he had taken a step outside, were it not for the footprints leading to his small wooden shed in the garden.
A strange sight met his eyes when he entered the shed. The beautiful Jennymaesian Empress, her red hair as blazing as ever, but her complexion looking very pale, and her garb by no means near suitably-equipped for the Antarctic climate, was tied to a chair. The Empress' incompetent and treasonous Late Chief of Espionage was standing nearby with an unlit cigarette in his hands, overseeing Tzipora's mother tying the Empress's arms and legs to the chair. Also nearby was a strange, donkey-faced creature, looking as if it had been severely kicked, but the Chieftain paid it no heed.
"Come now, Tzipora's mother!" exclaimed the Chieftain (as he did not yet know her name, given they hadn't really been properly introduced). "Is that any way to treat my guests?"
Tzipora's mother gave one of her now infamous insane cackles, while the treasonous Late Chief of Espionage tried to think of excuses as to why the Empress should be kept restrained.
"Nonsense!" exclaimed the Chieftain, magnanimously rejecting all the justifications put forth by the treasonous Late Chief of Espionage. "This Empress will catch her death of cold here in the shed, dressed only in clothes most suited for a Jennymaesian Summer. No, that won't do at all. We need to bring her inside the bunker, and warm her up, and revive her frozen limbs with a large mug of hot chocolate."
As the treasonous Late Chief of Espionage looked on worriedly but helplessly, and the strange, donkey-faced creature tried to stay out of sight in a corner of the shed, and Tzipora's mother wandered off who-knows-where into the frozen Antarctic wasteland, the Great Chieftain untied the tiny, limp body of the Empress and carried her into the Antarctic Fortress, where there was warmth, good company, and hot chocolate - or at least, warmth and hot chocolate.