Elsa didn't know how long she stared at the image in her window at a loss for words. She had absolutely no idea how long she was staring at it, trying to gather her thoughts and form them into words. ...but she had no idea what to say. She felt as though everything was frozen in time, including her own body. She couldn't even feel her own heart beating. She couldn't even think at all!
Whaaaash!
And just like that, time was reactivated. A jet of sea- green light had shot out toward's Loki's chest cavity from an unseen source. Elsa realized what it was, a millisecond too late and she barely had time for the desperate plea of "No!" to escape her lips.
The jet hit her mangled lover square in the chest and with a cry of pain, he slumped to the floor. Elsa barely had time to register the agony of the sight when the shot of it levitate upward, and then to the right.
The next thing she knew, she was gaping into her half-sister's malignant green eyes.
"Now that you've seen my proposition " snickered the enchantress.
"It's time to lay the insurance on the table "
"No" Breathed Elsa, horrorstruck.
"You didn't...you couldn't. He's. A Frost Giant...Their bodies can withstand even the...coldest temperature...how? "
The witch threw back her head and guffawed so loudly that her entire palace could be heard resonating the echo. When she finally stopped, her eyes were excreting tears of acidic mirth.
"Yeah, that's what I thought too. Your little boyfriend here tried to shove that crap down. Your's Truly's throat as well. Actually got me to believe it"
"But they don't call him the God of Lies for nothing dearie. I remembered this title when my guardians were roughing him up and I checked my book of magic...oh yeah I forgot to tell you that I'vea big I'm grimoire of spells. Elemental magic is just so useless "by itself. Nobody will take you seriously for an enchantress if you only have control over one thing. So courtesy of your old friend Grandpabby (Have you gone to pay your respects yet?) I've come into possession of the most fabulous book that can tell me anything I want about magic, as well as all creatures whose veins flow through it. You really must see it when you come here, dearie-"
"Just get too the point already!" Shouted Elsa.
Her sister showed the tips of her teeth.
"Of course, dear. I looked up Frost Freaks in my grimoire and it turns out that it's only their external body temperatures that can withstand freezes. Internal is just fine"
Elsa felt as though she had fallen into a bottomless pit.
"You mean...?"
"That's right, Sissy!" Laughed the horrible monster.
"Prince Frosty here's had his it to heart frozen. And unless you want to save him, you have to come to my domain and do buisness with me"
"If I am satisfied with the outcome of our deal" She continued.
"I will permit you to go to him and revive him"
"After all, you should know by now" She concluded sarcastically.
"Only an act of love can thaw a frozen heart "