"Interlude: Ring-the-tower-bell gets interesting"
by jami
A _Frozen_ yuri fan drabble. Most of the characters and settings are property of Disney. This story features an incestuous lesbian relationship; please don't read it if it will offend you.

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It had been a fairly boring day for the residents of Arendelle's palace. The royal sisters had been at their desks in the official study, working on tax legislation, reviewing and taking notes about existing trade agreements, and studying a proposal for a controversial expansion of logging activities. They took afternoon tea at about 1600. After the break, to Anna's surprise, Elsa approached her and suggested a game of ring-the-Hethyr-Tower-bell. She suggested a twist to the game as well. "I'll take the bell-pull and you'll have to tag me to get it back; but you'll get a reward for ringing the bell if you can do it in 10 minutes," she said.

Elsa's eyes twinkled eagerly, so the princess decided to play along. "You're not going to hide, are you?" Elsa shook her head. "I know you have some trick up your sleeve," Anna said impishly. "Still, I accept your challenge."

Elsa stuck out tongue and crossed her eyes. Anna snickered-but her snicker changed to a sigh of wonder as the sleeves of Elsa's practical under-dress blouse sublimated into the air and disappeared. "I don't even have any sleeves, so there!" She took her sister's hands and gave them a fond squeeze. "Give me a few seconds to get a head start, okay?"

Anna knew the queen was up to something, but she was very curious. If she played, she was sure to find out. She waited for about half a minute. When she opened the study door, Elsa was no longer in the connecting corridor.

Thinking back to her earliest memories, back before Elsa's magic had accidentally struck her, Anna remembered that Elsa and she used to play together in Hethyr Tower. Did Elsa remember that? She probably did: that was probably why this game had occurred to her.

Through the narrow corridor. Elsa wouldn't be there. This wasn't hide-and-seek, after all. Elsa had gone to the tower. Into the ballroom-

Elsa was there. A better way to say it would be, "Many Elsas were there." The huge, high-ceilinged hall was so full of life-sized copies of Elsa that there was hardly space to walk between them.

"This is cheating, you know!" Anna said loudly to the room.

There was a high, lilting laugh from somewhere toward the far end of the ballroom. "Oh dear, Anna! You think this is cheating?"

A ring of lavender-blue energy slowly swept through the room, touching every Elsa statue. They blinked their clear blue eyes and slowly began to move. "Oh, hi, Anna!" or "What's up, Anna?" or "Anna, do you think I'm the real Elsa?" came from the lips of the many statues. When they came closer, Anna realized that they could block her against the door just with force of numbers.

From somewhere near the other end of the ballroom, the voice of the real Elsa rose above the others. "Hethyr Tower is just on the other side of this door," said the talented queen. "I have the bell-pull. I've tied it around my left upper thigh; that's how you'll know it's the real me. Eight minutes to go, unless you'd like to admit defeat now."

Anna addressed the first row of figures-four or five Elsas. None of them was the real Elsa, but if she didn't eliminate them, the real one could mingle with the crowd and escape detection. Anna put her hand on the arm of the nearest Elsa. "Tag! Now, please make your skirt vanish," the turquoise-eyed princess said.

"Oh, my!" and "I didn't think you'd do that," and "That's kinky," and "Because our legs are so sexy?" came from the mouths of the assembled Elsas.

Anna blushed, realizing what she'd just ordered. "I'm checking for the bell-pull," she huffed. "Make the skirt disappear, and keep it gone until I've got the bell-pull."

The Elsa figure smiled and closed her eyes. The long, light blue skirt scattered into tiny crystals, revealing long, smooth, bare legs. There was no scarlet cord tied around the sleek left thigh. "Like what you see?" the Elsa-copy asked.

"Trying to embarrass me to death?" Anna said, making her voice carry. "It won't work; I hate losing!"

"That's why this is fun!" and "You always did," and "Not 'to death,' just to submission!" were Elsa's most common replies.

Anna touched another Elsa. "Tag-lose your skirt," she ordered.

"Wouldn't you rather take it off me?" teased the figure, but she did as she was told. The skirt melted instantly, leaving the figure's shapely legs gleaming under a film of water. The scarlet bell-pull wasn't on this left thigh either. "You aren't going to leave me like this, are you? I'll catch cold! Anna, at least use your cape to dry off my legs."

"Tempting, but I'm running out of time," Anna said with a wry grin. She took the arm of the next Elsa...

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Anna's face grew redder and redder as she worked her way through the ballroom. Each Elsa tantalized the freckled princess and flirted shamelessly with her.

The young princess tagged the next-probably the twelfth or thirteenth-tall, silver-blonde woman. "Your turn: skirt off, please," Anna said, unable to meet the eyes of the figure. This Elsa twirled and her skirt peeled away from her like a platinum ribbon, exposing her well-formed feet, then calves, then thighs.

There was a sturdy braid of scarlet thread high on her left thigh, a couple of cm beneath Elsa's lacy, low-cut, blood-red panties.

Anna looked up, making eye contact with the queen. "Found you!" she sang triumphantly.

"So take the bell-pull, go attach it, and ring the bell; you have less than a minute," Elsa replied with a naughty smile. She gracefully placed her left foot on a divan, presenting her leg to Anna.

Anna grabbed Elsa firmly around the waist with one arm. With her free hand, she tugged the running end of the knot in the bell-pull. The scarlet cord fell to the tiled floor. Anna leaned forward and kissed Elsa tenderly. Elsa's arms clasped Anna's shoulders and the two young women deepened their kiss, silently expressing their love to each other. A thick vortex of icy fog blew through the room as the queen's clever duplicates vanished.

"I win," Anna whispered, rubbing Elsa's lower back.

"You never rang the bell," said the powerful young queen. She and Anna kissed again, gently but passionately.

"I understood the game," Anna said after a long series of kisses. "You were reminding me how beautiful you are. The problem is, your game backfired, my love."

"Oh, did it?" Elsa asked, kissing Anna's cheek and running her hand along one of Anna's braids.

"I like your legs best when I can't see them," said Anna.

"Wh-!" Elsa tried to protest, but Anna squeezed her more deeply into their embrace.

Putting her lips next to Elsa's ear, Anna said softly, "-I can't see your legs when they're wrapped around me."

A thrill ran along Elsa's body, making her shiver from her toes to her nose. "Yes, you do win!" she whispered.

The next kiss might have lasted forever, if it hadn't been for Anna's shirt rising over her head.

Quick note: I have lemon versions of these little episodes. If you're interested in reading them, please PM me and I'll share them.