Chapter Three
Elsa POV
In Which Elsa makes her decision.
Elsa was sitting against her door. She'd been sitting there since Anna had left.
Elsa didn't want to leave the palace. She loved her mother. She loved her father. She didn't want to hurt anyone on accident.
But Anna was leaving. Elsa figured that Anna would leave with or without her. Elsa needed to make a decision.
She covered her face in her gloved hands. What was she gonna do?
The next morning, at exactly 9:00, Elsa heard screaming and running beneath her room. She figured that that was the servants, discovering that Anna was missing. She went to her bed, and switched clothing. Her parents usually didn't go to her room unless she called for them, but this was big- this was a missing princess.
Around 1:00, Elsa heard two people come up the stairs. She braced herself for the news that her sister was missing.
Her parents came to the door. She could almost hear them about to knock. She walked towards the door to meet them.
Then she heard a sigh. "We can't do this." said her mother.
"She deserves to know." her father responded.
"It'll only make her more terrified." her mother groaned. "We can't scare her. It'll make her powers worse. We'll let her know if she asks."
Elsa paused, waiting for her father to come in anyway.
He didn't.
She waited for another half-hour, until she realized that her parents had left. She collapsed on her bed.
She knew what she was going to tell Anna.
That night, at 10:00, Anna knocked on Elsa's window.
Elsa climbed out of her bed, fully dressed. She had her hair in the ceremonial coronation hairstyle... she wanted something to remind her that she was still part of Arendelle. She pulled a knapsack out from under her bed and placed a note on her made bed. She looked at her sister for the first time in months.
Anna gasped in delight when she saw her sister. Elsa grinned and opened the window. Anna reached out and touched her sister's arm. "Elsa..."
"Anna..."
The two sisters hugged. Anna looked down at Elsa's knapsack. "You're coming, then?"
"Yes." Elsa admitted. "It'll be at least a month before someone notices that I'm gone. The maid who brings my food isn't very intelligent, and she won't mention that my food goes uneaten. Mother and Father usually only come when I call. We'll be safe."
Anna smiled. "Let's go, then." She slid down the roof slowly, landing on her feet towards the bottom.
Elsa climbed through the window, then tried to move. She turned around and saw her glove snagged on a small tack on the window.
"Elsa, come on!" Anna called.
Elsa pulled, but her glove came off. She tried to pull it off the tack, but it stayed put.
"Elsa!"
Elsa abandoned her glove and followed Anna. Anna squealed with excitement. "Come on, then! We're going to the North Mountain!"
