Elsa wasn't allowed to care about others, not if her powers had anything to say about it. Sometimes it was hard to remember that they were apart of herself and not a separate entity housed inside of her, a parasite that froze its host.
She had cared for Anna, she truly had. She still did, in this strange new place with talking black boxes and metal horses and shops full of useless trinkets.
Ice surrounded her. Her head was foggy, and Elsa couldn't help but wonder if it was closing in on her and Emma.
"Tell me more," Elsa said, shaking the woman below her. Before she had looked so strong and determined. That was before the cold set in, before Emma closed in on herself in a struggle to warm herself once more. "Tell me whatever you want, Emma."
The only reply was the chattering of her teeth.
"Tell me, please!"
The cold that ripped through Emma barely registered through Elsa herself. The cold was the cold, she supposed, but that wasn't the same for Anna.
"You promised to help me!" Her voice rose, and for a moment she sounded like a child. A careless child who would do anything to get what they want, no matter who they hurt. "Emma!"
For a moment, her vision blurred. For a moment the woman below her morphed and changed.
For a moment it was just her and Anna again, alone in the cold and with no one able to rescue them.
Elsa tried to care.
Maybe if she just tried harder then she wouldn't ruin everything in the process.