Anna

It was the beautiful summer morning after the 'Day of Second Spring' – Arendall's very newest annual holiday, in fact this was the first time it was ever celebrated. The castle was decorated in flowers and white and blue glitter. Needless to say, the glitter was unplanned but a certain princess insisted they use glitter to represent the ice and snow that had melted. In fact the entire holiday was her idea, that they should celebrate Elsa's journey and how she discovered the key to controlling her powers, thus becoming the greatest, most epic asset Arendall had ever possessed. Also magic is sooo cool!

Anna woke up early this morning, it was slow, messy and painful especially after a full, long night of partying but she did it none the less. For once she was not completely stricken by amnesia and remembered why she was up. No wonder, really, she had been thinking about this day for weeks. Her handmaiden put her hair up in a simple up-do with a braid coming out of the back of it, like the tongue out of a dog's mouth. She slipped into a beautiful dress of green and gold and a pair of leather boots before running down the stairs into the kitchen.

"Good morning, princess Anna!" The staff greeted her as usual. These days they had plenty of staff tending to their needs as well as maintaining the castle, all to Anna's great delight since now she always had someone around to talk to.
"Good morning, guys! I'm so hungry I could eat a reindeer." She said and eyed the bread one of the chefs where just taking out of the oven. Housewife Martella – the head of the royal kitchen and loyal servant to the royal family since 32 years, lifted her gaze off the great slab of meat she was spicing to give Anna an amused look.

"My princess, you do know we could just serve you your breakfast in your chambers, or at least in the dining hall. There ain't no need fo you to come here to eat, risking to soil your dress at that." Martella said. "It's not exactly considered proper to dine among the kitchen peasants."
"Oh, but I like eating here! There's always so much happening here, and I like you people too." Anna replied with a smile. Martella shook her head.
"It ain't proper I tell you, but for this day I'll surrender. Better eat up your meal quick enough, m'lord Kristoff is leaving in less than an hour, is he not?"
"It's so weird when you call Kristoff 'm'lord', Martella." Anna replied, moving a bit uncomfortably in her chair.
"Well weird or not he practically is a lord now so it's m'lord we gon call him. Though he ain't ever acting nore dressing like one, that's for certain…" Martella said, stern but not ill-meaning whilst she served Anna cold blueberry soup, a basket of freshly baked bread, butter, cheese, tea and a cinnamon roll for her to break her fast on. Anna ate with great apatite as always, and even had enough room left to nom on an apple on her way out.

Today really was going to be a busy day, there was a group of representatives from their neighboring country, Demaria, coming to the castle to meet with Elsa and her counsil. Anna couldn't really remember what they wanted, she didn't listen too closely when Elsa told her about it. Elsa was the one who handled all the political stuff and Anna had never been all that interested in all the constant meetings and negotiations anyway.

More importantly, today was the day Kristoff was going to leave her. Not forever, just for a few days actually, but she had gotten so used to seeing him every day and she was really going to miss him. They had taken Elsa's advice to take it slowly and things were really working out for them. They still weren't even engaged, though Anna wished they were, but they really had a lot of fun together. Man, his going out on this stupid ice-expedition thing was going to suck.

She went out the castle main door. Elsa, Ulf, Sven, Olaf, Kristoff and his whole expedition team of four other men were standing outside. Kristoff was smiling and talking to the team cheerfully, and Anna felt a little bad about not wanting him to go. Ice was his life after all, and his ice business blooming had only made his passion burn even more intense than before. She sighed and decided to be happy for him, she was still going to miss him a lot though. Elsa was the first one to notice she was there.

"Good morning, Anna." She greeted her sister with that gentle and graceful tone of hers. Elsa was always so cool and queen-like, Anna really admired her for that.
"Good morning! Are you all ready to leave?" Anna replied with the best smile she could muster. Kristoff turned to her, him with a real smile on his lips.
"Yeah! I just wanted to say goodbye to you before going." He walked up to her and hugged her. "Take care of Olaf, and yourself." She dug her fingers into his back and pressed her face against his shoulder.
"You too, Kristoff."

Kristoff and the team rode out the castle gates, Kristoff naturally riding Sven, waving back at them. Elsa turned her gaze to Anna before they had even gotten out of sight.
"Anna, are you sure you're alright like this? If you'd like you could be with me today, you're always welcome to attend political meetings." She asked with concern, but Anna just shook her head.
"Thanks Elsa, but I think I'd rather just go to the forest or something." Elsa regarded her response for a second before replying.
"Ulf, go with Anna to the orphanage. I believe they have not had the play-day we promised them for this week yet?"
"No, You Grace, they have not." Ulf, their old butler, answered with a smile. Anna laughed.
"Elsa, you're the best sister ever!" She shouted and wrapped her arms around her. "Thank you!"
"Go, enjoy yourself okay." Elsa smiled back and Anna ran out the gate, waving back and with poor old Ulf chasing after her.

She felt much better now, with her sweet sister Elsa around Kristoff's whole ice-expedition thing might not suck too badly after all.