A/N: Thanks to everyone who's followed/favorited and/or is reading but not reviewing:)
To everyone whose letters haven't been replied to yet...I'm just going in chronological order so it's fair to everyone. Elsa WILL answer eventually.:)
Dear Elsa,
First, I just wanted to say how much I admire you. After everything that happened to you in your short life, you were able to put it all behind you and just (to borrow your words) let it go. Your song is my favorite. It helps me relieve stress at the end of a long, frustrating day at work.
My questions are actually for Anna, so if you could pass this along to her, I would really appreciate it.
I know this is a touchy subject with you and Elsa, but how did you deal with those years of isolation? What activities did you engage in to help pass those long, lonely years by yourself? I like to think that you spent part of each day talking to Elsa through her door, telling her about your day, the things you did, the discoveries you made.
I know you probably hate this phrase (many people do), but I sort of know how you feel. I had a brief estrangement with one of my best friends. She had gotten married without telling me and I went about it the wrong way. I attacked her through FB messages, which prompted a heated argument and left both of us upset. This led her to deleting me as her FB friend. I didn't mean to make her upset, I was just telling her how I felt. But we were able to make up after only a few months and everything is okay again.
I would like to say that I also admire you. You're outgoing and very much a people person. I would like to say that I'm like you in personality, because I also like being around people, but I think I'm more like Elsa. I'm shy and a little withdrawn, and I'm a little awkward and uncomfortable around people I don't know very well. My parents are always trying to get me out of my shell, to go beyond my comfort zone, but I find it hard. I was wondering if you had any advice on this subject.
One last thing before I finally leave you alone. How is your relationship with Kristoff? Judging from your mini-sequel, it seems he loves you already and I was wondering if maybe you felt the same way. If so, do the two of you have any plans to take your relationship further?
Your new friend,
IndyGirl89
P.S. What have Olaf and Sven been up to lately? ;)
Dear IndyGirl89,
Thank you very much for saying you admire me, but that makes me feel rather…nervous? Inadequate? I'm not sure. Anyways…thank you all the same, even though I don't deserve it.
I am so confused! It seems like everyone knows my song, and I know there was no one on the North Mountain when I sang it! I assume it's in that Frozen moving picture I've heard about, but that still doesn't explain where the people that made it got it from. I think Anna had something to do with it…she's the only person I've ever sung it for…
Of course! I shall turn this over to Anna now. :)
Your friend,
Elsa
Dear IndyGirl89,
Hi! Anna here. My wrist is pretty much better now…silly Elsa still won't let me write without it wrapped, though. (And now she's sitting next to me watching me write and saying that that's not either silly because it's not a hundred percent ok yet… Ok, it's, like, 98 percent ok now.)
Moving on…anyways, I made Elsa stop watching me write 'cause I don't want to risk making her upset again. I talked to Elsa a lot through her door after the accident. I'm not happy to remember or admit that right after the accident, five-year-old me was actually pretty mean to Elsa…I didn't understand what was going on and no one would tell me anything and I missed her and I kind of sort of may have yelled at her. Shortly thereafter, Mom and Dad said she was sick, and I remember Gerda telling me later on that Elsa was sad and that Elsa felt like she couldn't talk to me right now. I remember thinking that was just because she was sick and didn't feel good. I remember when I was eight, I wanted Elsa to come on a camping trip with me with Mom and Dad…I thought even if she was sick somehow, she'd still be able to come camping. I'd even planned how she might be able to play with me-I'd pull her around in my wagon so she wouldn't get tired or anything. But Dad said she was being punished 'cause she'd been naughty.
I think I probably caused a lot of trouble for poor Gerda and Kai and the other servants and guards when I was younger! More than once little creatures I'd caught got loose in the castle. I rode Elsa's and my bike down the stairs (bad idea…I broke my arm once doing that); I talked to the paintings in the portrait gallery; I slid around the ballroom in my stocking feet. Once I swiped paint from the stables and tried to paint my room (Kai was not happy because then he had to paint the molding stuff and replace the wallpaper…).
I'm not sure what FB is and neither is Elsa, but Elsa said she thinks it's probably some kind of modern technology thing. Please tell us if that's right! I'm glad you and your friend made up, though. :)
And I don't really have any advice on that subject…if I did, Elsa would enjoy parties and socializing and stuff by now! That being said, I think being an 'extrovert' or an 'introvert' is just a natural personality thing you can't really change. I mean, Elsa has never liked parties and being around tons of people, not even before the accident when she was little. That's just the way she is. I just asked her exactly why she disliked things like that when she was little; and she said they made her tired and gave her a headache and made her a little bit nervous then. I don't understand that, but that's all right. And I know I probably do push Elsa to do things she doesn't like sometimes, but I don't think people should make others feel bad for being shy or withdrawn or whatever else.
Ok, I just went and gave Elsa a hug, because she was sitting across the room looking a bit upset. I think she was worried what I was writing about her.
Kristoff is actually off ice harvesting quite a bit. I don't think he likes Elsa's and my parents much, so he'll probably hang around the castle more once they leave. We're actually engaged, but that was mostly a formality Elsa came up with so no suitors would come around for me and so Dad wouldn't try to find some "more suitable" prince or something. I do love Kristoff, but I want to wait to get married 'til Elsa's more…healed inside. I know she would give me permission to get married (well, maybe not yet…she'd probably say I'm too young or something, but it wouldn't be because she didn't approve of Kristoff), but I feel like doing that would just hurt her further-she'd feel like I was abandoning her or something. And I'm not doing that to her if I can help it.
Your friend,
Anna
P.S. Sven ate ALL of the carrots that were supposed to be for a whole week yesterday…and Olaf teased him by not letting him have his carrot nose!
To Her Majesty Queen Elsa of Arendelle:
I appreciate you taking time out of your (conjecturally) very busy schedule to answer these letters. I hope you don't mind the *ahem* rudeness factor of a few of them. Rest assured that I will display respect appropriate to your royal status in this and future letters I may send.
How are you receiving these letters? Can I safely assume that Manta has time-traveling capabilities? It's fairly confusing to me, as (we think) the Eternal Winter and Great Thaw were at least a century ago for us.
What would you say is your favorite thing you can do with your powers? I personally admire your ice-sculpting abilities. The detail is so exquisite!
Do you and Anna have a favorite activity you partake in together?
If you could be any animal in the world for a day, which would it be? (I have a feeling Anna would also like to answer this question.)
How would you react if I told you I am in close communication with four people with "elemental" powers? They live in my time, but I'm sure I could arrange a meeting or something, provided it's okay with you.
Lastly, would you mind at all if I paired you with a man with storm powers in a story I'm writing?
With all due respect,
Erin Milne
P.S. I'd like to send Olaf my warm regards and a virtual hug.
Dear Erin Milne,
Firstly, thank you for the politeness, but there's no need for the formality. :)
All right…I am receiving these letters by normal mail service. Kai delivers them to me and then Anna and I answer them. To my knowledge, they are all arriving on ships, just like any other letter from outside Arendelle would. Where they go or how they are moved before that I'm not sure, but I would assume one of your country's flying machines delivers to some sort of mail center in the United States before it comes to us.
Also, while Arendelle is definitely 'behind the times' and a bit old-fashioned compared to other nations, we are definitely not in a different time! Time travel is not possible, at least not yet, and I rather hope it never will be (too many disturbing paradoxical implications, in my opinion). Manta sent me a letter herself, and she does not have time-traveling capabilities. I think the moving picture I learned of recently must be at least a bit inaccurate if it says I existed a century ago!
My signature snowflake. I know it's simple and small and it's not complicated like my ice palace, but it's just…me. I don't remember not being able to make my snowflake. When I rediscovered it by accident as a sixteen-year-old, it actually made me feel a bit better because it was one thing that hadn't changed. It was the same pattern I'd seen when I was six. Besides that, I'd have to say my ice palace itself. It's one of the very few things about me that I'm actually proud of. I know that sounds silly, and I'm sorry.
There are lots of things Anna and I like doing together, so I don't have a favorite, although I really enjoy playing chess and…yes, building snowmen.
After a bit of thought, I think I'd say…a falcon. One of Papa's guests brought one once when I was little before the accident and I loved that bird very much. It fascinated me because it was so big and I liked how it could dive-bomb from so high in the sky. I saw it once more a few years later from my window…I heard that same guest ask Papa out in the courtyard where 'that smart, pale daughter of yours' was because he thought I'd like holding the falcon by myself because I was older by then. I remember trying so hard not to cry about it. It was stupid, but I wanted to hold that falcon so much and I knew I couldn't, even if Papa let me come downstairs, which he didn't, of course. Anyways, I think falcons are beautiful…they're graceful and strong and I'd love to feel like that for once, even if it was just for a day. Falcons are birds of prey, for goodness sakes…they're not…not weak and messed up like me.
And Anna says she wants to be a falcon too, but I know she's just being a copycat!
I would first ask you if these other individuals with elemental powers were nice. Then if you said yes, I would be very, very excited and ask if you would please arrange a meeting because I would love to meet someone else with magic like me.
About pairing me with someone in your story…I wouldn't like it, but I wouldn't hate it or be mad, and I'd also tell you that you have the right to write whatever you want about me because it's your story. :)
Your friend,
Elsa
P.S. Olaf says thank you.
Dear Elsa,
I have just a few questions for you, that might be a little personal. Please don't answer them if you don't feel comfortable. How were you able to forgive your father when he first came back? How's your leg doing? Are you going to create more life forms anytime soon? Do you like being Queen? What's your favorite memory?
~raven678
Dear raven678,
I don't know…I just did. I still think Papa tried to do the best thing and it just…wasn't. It still hurts that he likes Anna more than me, but I can't change that. I'm still trying to remember that's not my fault, but sometimes it's hard.
Thank you for asking. :) Gerda is still trying to help me get it stronger and heal it so I don't have to wear that brace anymore, but I'm starting to think it's not really going to get much better. All we've managed to do is get that leg more flexible (it was really, really stiff) and I can move it a little bit better by myself. But it still won't hold any weight whatsoever and I still can't really move it very well. I know I'm supposed to be able to walk on my own without my brace eventually, even if I'd still limp, but right now I'm finding that hard to believe. The good news is that being around little Eliot has made me feel a lot better about it.
I have no intentions of creating any more life forms anytime soon. I do wish I could bring back Marshmallow and Rania, but I don't know how or even if it would be possible, and I'm not even sure that would be right since they sacrificed themselves to save my life and bring me back last Christmas when I was so sick. I mean…they literally sent their magic-life back into me so I could live. Would it even be morally right to cancel that? I don't know…
Being queen is my job, and I think there are both pluses and minuses. I think mostly I just like being able to help people, even though I know that sounds cliché.
My favorite memory…I think that would either be the very first snowman Anna and I made together when we were two and five, or when Anna hugged me right after I thawed everything. I wanted that hug so much, but I was too scared to initiate it because I was still worried Anna wouldn't want anything to do with me after what I'd done. And she hugged me anyway.
Your friend,
Elsa
A/N: Next chapter coming soon:)