Loud banging shocked Elsa awake.
"Shit!"
BANG! BANG!
"Elsa! It's me Anna! Can I come in?" Anna's voice yelled through her thick white painted door.
"Y-yeah!" Elsa croaked flinging back her covers and gracefully jumped to her feet. The door creaked open and Anna peeked her head sheepishly in through the crack in the door, her hair was in a braid, much to Elsa's surprise.
"What's the matter Anna?" Elsa asked regally, she had woken up this morning much better than a couple of weeks ago, she moved over to her ensuite bathroom as she spoke.
"Um, well…" Anna mumbled playing with her fingers as she hesitantly followed her sister over to her bathroom and leaned on the doorframe.
"Princess Cameron is here. A Kala Heimili ship's been spotted coming in to port. Kai and the other aides are going crazy downstairs trying to get everything ready."
"What?!" Cried Elsa dropping her flannel in the basin splashing herself with warm water in the process. Picking it back up Elsa hastily washed herself before bustling passed Anna back into her bedroom creating her ice dress as she went, discarding her powder blue silk nightie as she went backing Anna blush and look away. The Queen made her way to her vanity desk and quickly ran a brush through her platinum blonde hair and threw it up in her usual braid that gave her an air of regal youth.
"I'm going to go meet her." Elsa told her sister putting the final touches to her hair as they made their way through the castle giving servants quick but warm smiles that they gratefully reciprocated. They had greatly changed their minds about their Queen over the few weeks of her rule; she wasn't so bad after all.
Elsa met Kristoff and Sven all hooked up to their new sled, Kristoff told Elsa that they were going to test it out.
"Did you want a lift somewhere Queen Elsa?" Kristoff asked, his hazel eyes flicking quickly over to Anna who had a small loving smile on her freckly face.
"If-if your offering Kristoff." Elsa smiled. Kristoff helped her into the back of his new sled before nudging Sven to trot towards the fjord. Elsa couldn't help but admire the interior of the sled, seems she had chosen the right one, Elsa smiled to herself as she stroked the blue leather seat fondly. Her eyes found their way up to the back of Kristoff's head as he hummed to himself quietly.
"So…Kristoff." Drawled Elsa shifting to the seat behind Kristoff so she could speak to him easier. Kristoff grunted in acknowledgement, turning his head a tad to listen to Elsa but keeping his eyes in front of him.
"I was wondering when you're going to propose to my little sister." Elsa said a sly grin creeping across her face as she saw the blonde mountain man's blush appear on his ears and the visible bits of his neck.
"Ah…um… Y-y-y-y'see, Your-Your High-Highness…"
"Elsa." Interrupted Elsa, her grin widening with glee.
"E-E-Els-sa. Um… er… Gee, ha… wow, that-that was un-unexpected." Said Kristoff coughing awkwardly, "wow, uh, y'do know it's only been three weeks right?" He asked flashing his eyes to look momentarily at the blonde behind him. He found she must have been very comfortable in the back of his sled as she was slouched slightly with her legs crossed and her right thigh showing through her split which now started halfway up her thigh rather than starting at her knee. He gulped nervously and looked quickly away, the Queen must have noticed him ogling as her thin eyebrows raised as she looked at him, an amused smile playing on her lips. The mountain man knew this was all in jest, that the Queen took pleasure in teasing him and Anna about their relationship but he still didn't know how to handle the situation yet. I mean, she is the Queen and all. Usually when Elsa teased him about it Anna was there to back him up but now… the Queen had ambushed him all alone! And now he was panicking, though thankfully they reached the harbour before he had to reply. Dismounting the sled the mountain man helped his girlfriend's sister from the back, smiling regally at him she pecked him on the cheek as thanks and made her way over to the harbour master to converse with him about the incoming ship. His large slightly rough hand came up to lightly touch the spot where Elsa had kissed him; to say he was shocked would be an understatement. He stood watching her with wide eyes as his fingers traced the slight frosty imprint of her lip of his stubbly chin. He smiled fondly at the young Queen, she was now laughing with the harbour master, he knew how petrifying for her it must be to have spent thirteen years cooped up in her castle to then suddenly thrown out into the real world with her subjects expecting her to be a great and gracious ruler as her parents were. And she was; better even. Kristoff smiled before climbing back onto the sled and urging Sven on giving Elsa a wave as he moved on.
Elsa was a little saddened by Kristoff's decision to leave as she gave him a small wave goodbye, but she couldn't use her friends as a safety net all her life, she knew that. And he was busy anyway, the hottest weather of the Arendellian summer was due so he needed to get his ice harvested ready for his flood of orders. Kristoff hadn't bothered with asking if the castle wanted to place an order as he knew Elsa had already offered to sort her castle out herself. He had gratefully thanked her for that as most of his ice had gone to the castle beforehand so he barely had enough to give to his other customers.
"It's a fine ship." The harbour master said absently as he admired the large ship as it sailed elegantly towards the port. It was made of the finest mango wood with intricate lacy looking snowflake patterns adorned the front and the hull of the ship. The jib was long and carved with snowflakes and lacy patterns. The powder blue sails had snowflakes of dark blue bordering the sails; silver threads had been woven into the sails and shone brightly in the sunlight making it look like solid water. Elsa couldn't help but drop her jaw as she stared up at the magnificently decorated ship as it sailed into the port her eyes were wide with awe.
Elsa heard the most amazing voice from the ship laugh. It was like listening to bells to Elsa, a woman that looked no older than she was jumped onto the rigging. Her dress that she was wearing looked similar to Elsa's except her sleeves were short and off the shoulders and its color was a light powder purple with an even lighter purple cape. Elsa's eye widened even more when her eyes met the woman's on the ship.
Wow.
