Anna walked up to the giant icy doors and took a deep breath. *knock, knock, knock-knock, knock*
The doors swung open, revealing an enormous empty castle. It was elegant and beautiful, with frozen fountains and walls of ice that made the entire structure glow blue.
"Elsa?" Anna called out. Her voice echoed hollowly around her. She shivered.
A voice called out from somewhere up the icy staircase. "Anna? Is that you?" Not just any voice. Elsa's voice.
Anna half-ran, half-slid to the bottom of the stairs just in time to see her sister. Beautiful, elegant, free. "Wow," she whispered under her breath.
"Anna, it's great to see you again. You know, I really missed you a lot."
"No, no, it's great to see you. I mean, the new you. I mean, it's still you, but you're different. Not different bad, good different-"
"Thank you. I'm glad you like it here. I was thinking. Maybe we should just forget the past. Make up. Be sisters again. I'd love it if you'd live here with me."
Anna was hardly paying attention. She had her neck craned backward, staring up through the crystal-clear ceiling. If she looked close enough, she could see a huge crystallized chandelier, made entirely of ice. Beautiful. Without thinking, she looked back at Elsa and nodded eagerly.
"Fantastic! Come on, let me show you around."
Elsa took Anna's hand and dragged her up the staircase. Desperate for conversation, Anna began talking mindlessly.
"You know, it's really nice to get to talk to you. All these years, I always thought you hated me."
"Oh Anna. I could never hate you. You're my sister. This is all my fault. If I'd just let it all out, we could've made up ages ago."
Anna smiled. This was going way better than she'd hoped. "So you'll come back home then?"
Elsa snorted. "Back? Why would I go back?"
Now Anna was confused. Did she really not know? "Uh, to thaw the fjord. It's frozen over."
Elsa stopped walking. "Oh."
"So…" Anna held out the gloves to Elsa. One she had taken at the coronation, one she found blowing in the wind on her way up here.
Elsa looked at the gloves with disgust. "I don't believe this."
"What? I just figured you would-"
"I'd put the gloves back on and come home? Like none of this never happened? Like this-" She gestured wildly to the castle around her "-Never happened?"
"Well… Yes?"
"So this entire time, you were just going to force me back in a cage?" Elsa snatched the gloves from her sister and threw them on the ground.
"Whoa, calm down sis, don't get upset."
"Too late for that, now, isn't it?" Elsa's face was starting to turn pink. "Why don't you just go home, show off your mastery of tact somewhere else?"
Elsa's anger was starting to rub off. "You know, I really thought you'd changed, but here we go again, you slamming the door in my face, just like you always do. Fine. I'll leave you alone. But just remember, I'm the only one who still doesn't think you're the prophecy."
"I could care less what you think. You're just an idiot who married a man she just met."
"Oh, that is so unfair! I'd have left by now, but I can't let you shut out Arendelle like you don't even care about them. I know all too well what that feels like."
"I don't want to hear it! I don't need my foolish little sister telling me what to do."
"I have been so wrong about you. You know what? I think you are the prophecy."
"I AM NOT THE PROPHECY!"