Anna walked down the richly decorated hall, humming to herself and wondering how she'd never seen the immense beauty of the palace. Oh that's right, every window in this place was shut! She stopped to glance up at a particularly large painting of a desert with the remnants of a village in the middle. A gold frame encased the picture of the village, Rocks and cactus littered the small town that stood before her, with only support beams and a singular well in the middle of it all. I wonder where they all went, why they left, Anna thought as she stared.
A single word was engraved at the bottom of the frame on a gilded plaque. Fire.Anna felt the cold seep back into her, forgotten while looking at the painting, she took her eyes away and started off down the hall towards the library, hoping there would be a fire in there. Since Elsa came back from her escapade, Anna had taken to spending as much time with her as possible, building more snowmen, named Jaximus, Peter and Sam, Ice skating nearly every day and had moved her bed into Elsa's room as soon as she could. Elsa was a queen however, so Anna enjoyed the little time she spent with her sister as much as she could.
Kristoff, on the other hand, was often out living up to his name as the royal ice deliverer, not staying in the castle longer than two days at a time, he was often out gathering ice, leaving Anna alone in the castle with nothing else to do but be bored, again.
I wonder what Elsa's up to? Anna continued her journey through the massive palace until she came to her sister's chambers. The door was decorated with intricate carvings of snowflakes and a pattern of ice cracking. The door reminded Anna of Elsa's ice castle, up on the north mountain.
Anna knocked on the door with quick, staccato bursts, a tune like rhythm.
"Elsa?" Anna said tentatively.
"Anna? Come in!" came Elsa's voice, calm and sisterly.
Anna opened the door to find her sister sitting at her desk reading a book. For once, she wasn't hunched over some paperwork, or treating with some foreign emissary. The office was large, even for the palace, one wall was covered with books, another with more paintings, a hearth below them, Anna's desk was at the back, with a window behind her piled high with books of different colours, ink pots and many loose papers, Anna wondered how she knew where everything was. Anna's eyes immediately went to the roaring fire in Elsa's hearth, crackling with a faint 'pop' every few seconds. She strode over to it, stretching her hands towards it with an eagerness to get them warm.
Elsa was wearing a green woollen dress with her hair in her signature braid that fell easily over her shoulder onto her chest. Anna always liked her braid, even when they were children. It was her favourite thing about her. Anna's eyes wandered down to Elsa's chest and noticed how exposed it was in that dress, a relatively new fashion that Anna wasn't sure she liked. Elsa is actually really …nice looking? I wonder if she thinks I'm nice looking, should I ask -
"Anna?" Elsa said, interrupting Anna's train of thought.
"Hm? Oh, yeah, sorry, I was thinking about how nice you look today. Not to imply that you don't look nice all the time, you just look especially nice today, but you do look nice all the time-"
"Anna, relax, I understand" Elsa said with a smile.
"Okay, good." Anna said. "Sorry, I'm just really bored, with you always doing some 'queen' business, and Kristoff always getting Ice for you, it just feels like it's going back to the way it was before"
Elsa sighed. "I'm sorry Anna, it's just I'm a queen now! I need to see different countries, treat with them, learn about them, deal with petitioners, I can't be a little girl anymore."
"Could you take a break, maybe?" Anna said, sitting down in the chair across from her sister. "You know, do something fun for once, with Kristoff and me? I can convince him to take a break"
"Well I did have an idea, for later on, once everything is settled with new trade routes and Alliances with new kingdoms." Elsa said with a sly smile on her face.
"Oh really?!" Anna jumped in her chair, "What is it, is it fun? Will we all enjoy it? Where is it? Is it far? Tellmetellmetellme!"
Elsa closed the book she was reading and handed it to Anna.
Anna took the book and looked at the cover. There were words that Anna couldn't work out due to the runic language they were written in.
"I don't understand, what is this?" Anna asked in wonder.
Elsa smiled and took the book back, opening to a page with a picture of a silhouetted lizard with fire surrounding it to show Anna.
"We're going to go see Dragons"
