Chapter 2

The next year was, well complicated. After I left Rapunzel behind in Corona I visited the kingdom of Arrendelle Where I made an odd discovery. As I brought the snow around the castle the difference was so bluntly obvious. The town was alive and well but the palace seemed all too quite almost looking dead in its state if near abandonment. The last time I had been in Arrendelle long enough to pay attention to what was going on down below everything seemed a perfect disharmony. The castle's gates were open to the public and it was the main focus of the town, the place where everybody gathered. It looked almost haunted now that it was closed off from the world and my memory of what used to be a beautiful kingdom caused me to wonder why. Why had the royals shut out all of the other people in their kingdom? Why was the palace now closed off?

I had this nagging feeling inside of me that told me it wasn't about keeping the peasants out. The king and queen of this particular kingdom loved their people deeply, and so I was lead to believe that this was less about pushing people away and more about keeping something in.

I had no idea what the Royals were trying to hide, but there are perks to being invisible when you want to know something that you're not supposed to know.

I approached the castle with caution, brisk and searching for a way in. I noticed an open window on the second floor and saw this as an opportunity to find out what had gone wrong in the past year or so. I let myself in, the castle was unsurprisingly vacant. I'd walked down six hallways and opened countless doors before I finally heard a sign of life. A girls voice. Her song was brilliantly echoed through empty halls and spaces of the palace.

"Do you wanna build a snowman? Come on let's go out and play!" I approached the little singing girl. Her strawberry blonde hair was pulled into two tiny ponytails at the back of her head. The kid looked a little bit younger than Rapunzel, maybe five or six.

"I never see you anymore. Come out the door. It's like you've gone away." She sang as she knocked on a large blue and white door. She seemed somewhat desperate in her attempts to get the attention of whoever was hiding behind it.

Who's behind that door? Why are they ignoring this girl?

"We used to be best buddies, and now we're not. I wish you would tell me why." I could her the longing in her little song. "Do you wanna build a snowman?" She pressed her little face closer to the door and put her lips up to the key hole. "It doesn't have to be a snowman." So much hope in this one little girl wishing for whoever dwelled beyond the blue and white door to answer her.

"Go away Anna." Another girls voice called from the other side.

Anna hung her head in disappointment and turned away from the door. "Okay bye." She shuffled her feet and trudged away from the door in disappointment. When she turned I noticed the kid had a streak of white in her hair and was intrigued with the thought of a backstory, though I decided it wasn't important and disregarded it as a birthmark.

"Hey! Kid. Anna. Hey!" I said in hope that maybe there was another child that believed in Jack Frost and his icy magic. She didn't hear me, I was nonexistent to her. "Come on kid give me something. Who's behind the door?" I asked knowing she wouldn't hear. She walked right through me and proceeded to the end of the hall.

"I just don't get it." Anna mumbled to herself and plopped down on a love seat at the end of the hallway. "Why does she shut me out?" Anna sighed as she stared out the window at the snow I'd brought with me.

"Who? Who shuts you out?" I forgave her for not answering my questions, after all she didn't even know that they were being asked. Anna picked up a pillow and groaned into it.

I sat for a few seconds watching the child in her state of frustration. It was torture, seeing a child like this and not having the ability to comfort them. That was when the idea dawned upon me that whoever was behind that door wasn't just shutting out Anna, they were shutting out the entire world. That's was why the castle's gates were closed.

Maybe there's a window. I have to see who's in there. I thought and headed back the way I came leaving Anna alone to watch the shiny white flakes teeter from the winter sky.

I made my way back to the window I had come through and slid myself through and out. Staff in hand I flew around the side of the fortress to about where the mysterious door had been on the inside. A large triangular window covered a portion of the brick wall. I approached it unsure of what I would see when I looked through it. Slowly I made my way closer keeping my guard up as the view became more clear.

My tense muscles relaxed as I realized who was on the other side of the door. This must be that little girl Anna's sister. I thought as I watched the girl that was watching the snow fall. She climbed up on he window sill, this girl seeming a bit older than Anna. A smile spread across her face, the winter outside reflected in her blue eyes as joy and wonder danced into them. She reached one hand up and put it in the window and time seemed to slow as I realized what was happening. Ice shot from her fingers freezing the window on the inside.

"Oh my god!" I screamed and felt my jaw drop wide open. "How- wha- I-" I even couldn't find the words. I had just experienced something I didn't even think could happen. Ice powers, not mine someone else's. somebody else has ice powers. Where did she get them? Did the moon give them to her? How is this possible?

I took a deep breath as I stared at her through the window in cheerless confusion.

"Who are you?" I whispered to the winter air.

Sheer terror was spread across the girls face as she gawked at the cold she'd brought. She looked panicked, almost like she didn't know what was happening to her. Like the way people look after they wake up from a frightening dream and they don't know where they are and they're not sure if what had just happened was real or all in their mind.

The young girl started breathing heavy and fast and then she called, "Dad! Dad! Please, I need you!" She begun to back away from the window shed stricken with the wrath of fear. "Help," the girl whimpered as she mindfully rejected her pale cold hands.

"Elsa, what's wrong?" A man, tall with golden brown hair and a mustache bursted into the girls room.

"Dad!" Elsa cried and ran to her father.

That's her dad? He looks nothing like her.

He pushed a piece of platinum blonde hair out of the little girls face. "Dad I'm scared." Elsa stuttered and fell into her father who caught her in a hug.

"Elsa." The king started. "It's going to be okay. You need to calm down."

"I didn't mean to freeze the window, I don't think I can control it." The girl said to her father.

"Listen to me, everything will be okay. I know it's possible to control, you just have to trust yourself and you have to trust me," said the king.

"I trust you," the light haired girl said with a hopeful grin.

"Here you go." The girls dad said, pulling something from his pocket.

"Gloves?"

The king slid the gloves onto the princess's hands and said, "The gloves will help." He held one of Elsa's now glove covered hands. "See. Conceal it."

"Don't feel it." The both said together. "Don't let it show." A synchronized sentence no doubt practiced countless other times when the girls powers would get out of control.

"Dad, Elsa? What's going on in there?" Anna knocked on the always closed blue and white door.

"Anna, hold on." The king yelled out to his second daughter.

"What's happening?" Anna howled like a lonely wolf.

"Elsa, I need to go talk to your sister. Are you going to be okay?" He asked Elsa.

"Yes. Thank you." Elsa nodded her head to the king as he turned to go. An after the door was shut, "Conceal don't feel. Don't let it show."

I felt bad for Elsa. I could not empathize because the second I was brought into this world I knew how to control the storms inside of me. I was able command the cold weather the way I pleased, I was in complete control.

It was strange meeting two children so alike within such a small period of time. Both Elsa and Rapunzel trapped inside a the walls of their own unique prisons by an abnormality that should be a gift. Their curses are their undoing, holding them captive as though they were criminals. Both trapped by their powers, trying to protect themselves from a world that could never accept them.

And then there was Anna. Anna's life more tragic than the others, left in the dark on why she was shut out. Too obviously lonely and the youngest if the three. I wanted to be her friend, I wanted to explain this to her but of course I couldn't because even if I did she wouldn't hear.

I wished Elsa had a copy of the book Rapunzel had, or at least believed in Jack Frost enough for her to get a glimpse of someone who could truly help her. Her father would never be able to help, winter is an unforgiving madness and the kind that can tear somebody with Elsa's type of power apart from the inside out. Conceal don't feel? Elsa that will be the death of you.

The world is sad enough to ignore you until they find a way to destroy you.

"I'm sorry Elsa," I breathed as the ice on the inside of the window melted into a small puddle.