37- Elsa's Dream
The Queen of Arendelle just did not know what to think about her personal encounter with Anna in the darkest of that cold and eerie night.
It was true that Anna had already taken her most lethal creation back to the relative safety of her chemical lab upstairs, and even though nobody else knew about the weapon there was no way to guarantee that it would remain a government secret after all...
Elsa did not want to even think of what could happen if the existence of the awful bomb was eventually discovered, and for her it was even worse to think that a simple fuse could actually detonate the Thing.
Anna had been crystal-clear to her when she hinted that AV-137 was a threat of unknown and unspeakable danger, this was far worse than the dreadful Annalyte and now perhaps the entire world was in danger...
Elsa walked into her personal bedroom some twelve minutes after having said her final words to Anna, she quickly closed all of those white and violet curtains and her wide and blue bed looked quite friendly that night.
The silent Queen crawled into her welcoming bed knowing that the damage had already been done, at this point there was no way to send AV-137 back to the shadows and the fate of Arendelle and the world now depended on sheer fortune and luck.
All that Elsa could do was to wish that Anna would remain loyal to her promise about developing the weapon into a far safer and less lethal design, the Northern winds continued to cry and howl outside and the shaky Queen fell asleep at last...
Elsa would often dream about the happiest times that she had enjoyed beside her sister Anna all those years ago, Arendelle Castle would always look so clear and peaceful in the distance and yet something very different happened that night.
In her dreams, a sad and confused Elsa saw herself dashing so fast through the eerily empty streets, gardens and squares of Arendelle Town like she was trying to find something...
Instead of people Elsa would find just crows and ravens that looked down at her from the highest branches of the trees, most of the shops, houses and pubs seemed to have been forsaken a long time ago and soon after that the shaky Queen departed from Arendelle Town at last.
At first it seemed that everything would be normal once again, but it did not take long for the friendly fjord and nearby hills to be replaced by the most lonely and eeriest forest that Elsa had ever seen...
The once bright and happy sky transformed into a cold shade of amethyst and violet, and the Queen would look all around her as she tried to find a trace of Anna somewhere just to be greeted by solitude and silence.
What was happening here? What place was this? Why it was that the happy world of Arendelle had transformed into a ghastly and lonely forest at the middle of nowhere?
Elsa continued to walk and explore that place alone for what seemed like a very long time to her, Anna was nowhere to be seen and all of a sudden the Queen found herself standing beside a calm and sleepy lake somewhere in the forest...
At first the lonely Queen could do nothing but to admire in silence the quite magical beauty of that lake, since the surface was almost like a mirror and a thin layer of ghostly fog would float above the water... it was a cold and mystical experience, the lake would reflect the amethyst sky and cirrus clouds so high above that forest and then a sound like that of a breaking twig came from somewhere to her right.
Elsa turned around quite slowly in great fear of what she would discover at that place, the crows and ravens cawed somewhere in the distance and that was the moment when the Queen came to discover that she was not alone at the forest anymore...
"Father!" Elsa cried out, now dashing towards a solitary man that stood between the fog not so far from the water and her- "Father! Dad! Dad, it's me! It's me, Elsa!"
This was just unbelievable, this was exactly what Elsa had been hoping to experience and enjoy once again ever since her parents had died in a dark and terrible storm somewhere in the sea...
The once great and beloved King Agnarr of Arendelle turned around as his daughter cried out those high and happy words, those cheerful green eyes flashed with excitement for a moment and there was nothing but love and acceptance emanating from him.
Elsa was surprised to see that her father was wearing exactly the same royal suit that she had seen on him that fatal day all those years ago, the former King beamed at her and after that they hugged each other right beside the cold and ghastly lake...
"My sweet little Elsa" Agnarr whispered, now staring down into the happy and yet tearful eyes of his daughter- "We are proud of you, and we have missed you and your little sister Anna so much..."
"All these years have been so hard without you and mother beside us" Elsa replied, and the Queen was calm at this supernatural encounter since she was not quite aware that she was dreaming- "I have been strong, and Anna has been even stronger and far more courageous than I could ever be... Father, we do everything for you and mother! We have never forgotten you, and you both shall always stay alive in our hearts..."
"We know, my sweet Elsa! We have always watched over your lives, guarded your sleep every night and guided your steps and actions in that world so far below."
"Father" Elsa asked, now taking a look all around them at the silent forest, the amethyst sky and that cold and foggy lake- "What place is this? Where are we?"
Elsa was a little surprised to witness how her father just looked around at the mystical forest for some time after those questions, a few crows cawed in amusement as they flew together somewhere in the distance, that eerie fog advanced between the trees and plenty of gray and orange leaves were flying with the wind.
Everything was so silent and cold between those trees, and after all it seemed that King Agnarr was not quite sure of what to answer to his daughter...
"This place is not Life, and yet it's not the Afterlife either" the King replied, now looking down into Elsa's eyes as a clear note of grief and despair appeared in his voice all of a sudden- "They say that dreams are death's sister, after all! Elsa, I have come here tonight... to guide your path, my sweet daughter, since very soon the four of us shall be together again..."
"What do you mean?" Elsa asked, a little confused at the intriguing and dark meaning of what her father had just said- "I shall take care of Anna! We have to look after Arendelle together... Father, there are still so many things that we have to do in our lives!"
Elsa knew that what her father had told her just could not be true at all, since everything was fine at Arendelle and at this point after the war there was no way on Earth that anything too dangerous could ever happen to them.
Anna and her inventions had saved everything from disaster and death, all danger and threats were gone forever, no country on Earth would ever dare to attack Arendelle again and now Elsa would be free to enjoy a very long and happy life beside her sister...
"Elsa, your sister should not be alive as we speak in this dream" King Agnarr explained, and finally the first tears started to flow from those green eyes as the somber man retreated slowly a few steps- "Anna was supposed to die that day at Styllgren Line, you were never supposed to save her from the water!"
"Anna is my sister!"
"In saving her, you have murdered us all..."
Elsa dashed in a desperate attempt to grab her father as the late King vanished like a ghost into the cold and eerie fog, the dream forest started to disappear as well all around her and finally the Queen came to wake up back in her personal room...