"HE'S KRISTOFF!" She whispered as only a child can whisper... really loudly... her eyes wide with some sort of baccanalic delight.

"Yeah... He said that..." I replied back softly... still not getting it...

"FROZEN! He's KRISTOFF! He has a sled and a reindeer named SVEN?!" She said with the "Duh" too heavily implied in her voice to be needed to be spoken... My eyes widened as I got her point... that was weird... but maybe the guy who was named Kristoff had just saw the movie and changed his reindeer's name to Sven for kicks... "Could be coincidence... Let's get more data before we make any assumptions Munchkin..." I whispered back... "Better to be sure." and not get her heart broken by reality.

"We're going to ARENDELLE! I don't know WHY people say college makes you smart... you're dumber than I remember..." She muttered but still didn't let me rain on her Disney parade as she turned towards Kristoff with the look of adoration. I sighed, trying to come up with a rational explanation... but you know the simplest explanation would be that we somehow got stuck in a Disney movie...

I finally whispered back

"Be CAREFUL Rosa... this is a very dangerous and odd situation... if we ARE in Frozen you can't tell anyone because they don't know... and you have to just play along and keep quiet until we find a way back home... be careful and stay close." I warned... it would serve as good advice anyway I figured. She nodded seriously. Kristoff for his part seemed to take the weirdness in stride but kept looking at our clothes... I thought at first he was just checking me out... but that was not the case. I took a closer look at him and noted his clothes seemed handmade... and... I can't be sure but he did kind of look like the animated Kristoff if he were real... my forehead which had been furrowing worriedly this whole day deepened as I told myself I was not in a disney movie... God that would be like the worst punishment for a lesbian... I ran my fingers through my short messy black hair that was getting in my eyes with all the wind rushing by. I remembered I had planned to get a haircut at Mario's barbershop today... God how in the hell did we end up here?! Kristoff looked at the kid and gave her some bread and cheese he had packed which she gave me some of and which we both quickly devoured... giving him our thanks. After about 45 minutes of the munchkin trying to be subtle questioning Kristoff about Arendelle and getting all answers that pointed t E... I was beginning to believe the kid might be on to something... I gulped as we pulled up to a medieval town with medieval peasants and buildings and I was still grasping for a solution... ANY solution that did not involve being stuck in a Disney movie... I thanked Kristoff for the ride back and helped him unload his stock and stable up Sven while Rosa ran around trying to take everything in.

"So if you need any help let me know... I owe you." I told him and he nodded stoically. "So... You were telling Rosa about a coronation? When is that happening?"

"Tomorrow! You won't want to miss it!" He smiled. I pondered my next question... The kid had already asked him about if he knew what a phone was... he didn't... so I figured that asking him how to get to a phone or computer or airport was pointless.

"Do you know of any place I can get some work?" I said finally.

"The tavern could always use another hand." He pointed me in a direction... Well that sounded just fine... different dimension... same goddamn crappy job... I thanked him and motioned to Rosa who seemed very disinclined to leave Kristoff but followed me anyway. We went to the Tavern and sure enough it was a smelly, crude, preindustrial tavern." The clientele looked harmless enough and I went up to the guy who seemed to run it.

"Hi... I was told that I might be able to find work here. Are you in charge?" I asked. He nodded.

"I was thinking of hiring another hand now that Nikolas is leaving..." He said looking me over. "I'm Derik. Over there is my son Johan."

"I'm Aim and this is Rosa. We just got into town so we don't have a place or a job yet, but I'm young and strong and willing to work hard." I told him, Rosa standing beside me still ogling everything.

He looked over at Rosa and sighed "Well you can stay in the barn out front for now until you find a place and you can start work right now if you want because as you can see we are packed with all the people flocking into town for the coronation tomorrow." He explained motioning at the growing crowd. "you would be handing out food and drinks... I mean I would prefer a woman but you'll have to do." He motioned with his hands... "Why are you dressed so strange though... you can borrow some clothes from my son until you find some better ones..." He shook his head and called his harried teenage son over. It was getting quite the crowd... As he explained to his son about our situation I thought over my predicament... I decided not to correct the assumption that I was a boy... it was an easy mistake and it would definitely serve me better if we were where I thought we were. Rosa and I followed the boy out back to their rooms... he gave me a shirt and pair of pants and then left us saying we could leave our things in his room for now until it was time for bed. I changed into the homemade plain shirt and heavy work pants and Rosa turned smugly to me.

"Believe me NOW?"

"Yes... Rosa I think something is seriously off and we are quite possibly in a Disney movie... that doesn't mean it isn't a bad situation or that it isn't dangerous... I mean if coronation is tomorrow we're going to be in the middle of a terrible BLIZZARD!" I pointed out.

"But we can change it! We can bring the sisters together earlier!" She lighted up excitedly.

"Changing things is always dangerous. What if we make them worse? what if because of us something good that is supposed to happen accidentally doesn't happen? What if Anna marries Hans?" I tried to think of another bad thing. "Or the Duke of Weseltown gets his stupid contract that will be bad for Arendelle...or everybody DIES in the blizzard. This is serious stuff. It's not a cartoon anymore. All we need to concentrate on is finding shelter, food, and a way home." I tried to reason. Screwing with happy endings isn't my line of business.

"You're just being a coward." She huffed.

"Rosa think about it... what would you change? Say we punch Hanz and tie him up or scare him off... and Anna doesn't meet him... Her and Elsa will still blow up over something else because Elsa's nerves will be frayed to their last straw and Anna will bug her until she blows up and starts the snowstorm... then all we will have done is deprive Arendelle of a good leader while Anna goes to chase Elsa up the mountain... I mean I hate the guy but he did good work helping the people and organizing things until he tried to kill the sisters. Everything has consequences and it is dangerous to screw around with them. We need to figure out how we got here and how we can get home. I say we keep our heads down until the whole drama plays out and then go to the castle and try to look at the library or ask Kristoff if we can see his troll family and ask them for advice."

"I guess... but I still want to punch Hanz!" She muttered sullenly... and I have to admit I understood... I mean being stuck in a Disney movie and NOT taking part in the action or drama? But like Mom always said 'better safe than sorry', and losing Rosa to a blizzard or an asshole Disney villain was NOT happening on my watch.

"Maybe you'll get the chance... now let's go back to the tavern. We've wasted enough time." I breathed in a big breath and tried to get my macho on.

Serving drinks and food is pretty much the same anywhere. There were no brand names to keep track of there was only Ale, a vodka type liquor, and Mead, and the meal was mutton. People were friendly and it was actually more pleasant than my regular job. Rosa sat in the corner with some other children playing some game I couldn't see. After a few hours the tavern started to thin out a bit. The son quit early and said he would leave our clothes and other things in the barn for us. After another hour or so only a few stragglers remained and most of the tavern was cleaned up and Derik told us to get some rest which we happily did. It was pitch black outside... the kind of darkness I had never experienced before and we made our way to the barn... and curled up on some hay.

"Aim I'm scared." Rosa said finally...

"Me too." I sighed... still having trouble accepting this strange, new reality. "but it'll be okay... I mean it's a Disney movie... we'll be okay." I said trying to sound sure and strong and comforting. She turned over towards me and curled up on my shoulder and I hoped that I wouldn't let her down in anyway... I had little experience taking care of this new sister I got when Dad remarried... I was already in my last year of high school when they started getting serious and I met her. So I was only just getting used to the idea of being a new family when I went off to college. Visiting home once every few months for four years I had grown to love Rosa and her mother but I didn't know how to take care of Rosa in this situation as a sibling much less a parent... but I would just have to find a way to be both. Eventually her breathing evened out and I tried to force myself to sleep, knowing tomorrow would be a busy day to say the least.