"Does anyone have any idea how to stop this weather?" Penny asked as we went through some hostile terrain.
"Don't worry, Penny." said Anna. "Elsa and I will straighten this out."
"Let me get this straight." said Kristoff. "My ice business is riding on you talking to your sister?"
"Yup." said Anna.
Sherman was so stunned by her casual plan, that he didn't look where he was going and ended up with an ice-spike to the nose.
"So you're not scared of her?" he asked.
"Of course not." said Anna. "I mean, why would I be?"
"Yeah." agreed Olaf. "I bet she's the nicest, gentlest, warmest person ever."
As he was talking, Olaf backed right into an icicle, which ran through his torso. "Oh, look at that. I've been impaled."
Sherman and Penny laughed.
"Good one." said Sherman.
"Moving along." I said, having grown minorly jealous of Olaf's joke.
We came across what looked like a dead end.
"Now what?" said Penny.
We looked around to face a stone wall.
"It's too steep." Kristoff said while looking inside his runsack. "I've only got one rope, and I'm sure one of you don't know how to climb mountains."
"Says who?" asked Anna.
Sven nudged Kristoff, who looked up to see Anna trying to climb up the wall.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"I'm going to see my sister." said Anna.
"Yes, well, I wouldn't put my foot there if I were you." I said, for a piece of the wall fell off while Anna held on.
"Mr. Peabody, please. I'm trying to concentrate." she said.
"Should we help her, Mr. Peabody?" whispered Sherman.
"I'd give her thirty seconds, tops." I whispered back.
"Better make it a minute." added Kristoff, who then said to Anna. "You know, most people who disappear into the mountains want to be alone."
"Nobody wants to be alone." said Anna as she kept climbing. "Except maybe you."
"I'm not alone." said Kristoff. "I have friends, remember?"
"You mean the love experts?"
"Yes, the love experts."
Anna placed her left leg on a nearby ledge. "Please tell me I'm almost there."
"Well," I said upon examining Anna's progress. "You are seven feet off the ground, that's for sure."
Anna groaned as I said to Kristoff. "Pay up."
But before Kristoff could hand over the money, Olaf called out, "Uh, fellas? Not sure if this is gonna solve the problem, but I found a staircase that leads exactly where you want it to go."
"Ha ha! Thank goodness." exclaimed Anna. "Catch!"
Kristoff did as she descended off the wall.
"Thanks! That was like a crazy trust exercise."
As he watched Anna go, Kristoff held his hand out to me, saying. "Pay up."
We walked past the wall and found ourselves gazing at Elsa's palace.
"Wow!" exclaimed Sherman
"It's like a dollhouse..." said Penny.
"...but made of ice." added Kristoff, who looked as if he could cry. "It's so beautiful."
"We'll just give you a moment." said Anna as she followed Sherman, Penny, Olaf and I up the staircase.
Sven tried to follow us, but his hooves slipped out.
As he scrambled to get up, Kristoff came to his aide.
"All right, take it easy, boy. Come here. I gotcha."
He settled Sven back down the stairs and patted him. "OK, you stay right here, buddy."
Sven sat down and watched as Kristoff climbed up the stairs, admiring its details, letting out an impressed whistle. "Flawless."
Once we arrived at the doors, Anna just stood there.
"Go on." said Penny. "Knock already!"
"Why isn't she knocking, Mr. Peabody?" whispered Sherman.
"Just give her a moment, Sherman." I whispered back.
"Do you think she knows how to knock?" Olaf whispered as well.
Finally, Anna knocked on the doors, which began to move by themselves.
Anna gasped in surprise. "It opened."
"That's a first." I said.
"You guys wait out here." said Anna. "Especially you, Kristoff."
"What?"
"When I introduced Elsa to Hans," explained Anna. "She froze everything."
Kristoff began to stammer in disbelief. "But...but...Oh, come on. It's a palace made of ice. Ice is my life!"
"Yes, we know that." I said. "But let's give the girls a minute to talk this over, shall we?"
Kristoff let out a sad sigh. "Fine."
"Well, here it goes." Anna said as she walked inside the palace.
"Good luck, Anna." Sherman called out as the doors began to close while Olaf started to count...in song. "One...two...three...four..."
Author's Note:
That last part where Olaf counted in song was actually based on Madame Mim from "The Sword in the Stone," who sang count while competing against Merlin in the Wizard's Duel.
Just thought I mentioned it.
