The royal family sat around a fire in the Northuldra village. The natives and soldiers conversed with each other. Olaf was talking with Sunna and the Northuldra children, who were dissembling him, much to his annoyance, while Sunna was only giggling at the funny sight. Kristoff was talking with one of the Northuldrans in charge of taking care of the Reindeer, Ryder, is what he had said his name was.

"...I'm sure you two have many questions." Iduna said.

"Very many questions." Elsa replied.

"Where to begin? There's so much to tell you." Agnarr sighed.

"How about the obvious questions: One, Why did you sail here? Two, How did you survive your ship capsizing? And three, Why is mother dressed up like a Northuldra and have her hair all down like that?"

"What, you don't like it?" Iduna said, somewhat disappointed.

Anna gasped as realized what she said and felt awful. "Oh no, mother, I'm sorry! I just... It's... not you."

Iduna sighed with a slight smile. "Oh Anna, my angel. This is me."

Anna's eyes teared up at the name her mother used to call her as a child. "Wait... what?"

"What do you mean, mother?" Elsa asked.

Iduna turned to her husband, who nodded. "Elsa, Anna, I was born a Northuldra. This forest was and still is my home."

The sisters were shocked at the sudden truth.

"What?! But, if that's true, how did manage to get out of the forest before the mist appeared?!" Anna exclaimed.

"Because she saved me." Agnarr replied. "The mysterious siren I mentioned in that story I told you when you two were little, the one who saved my life, was your mother."

Anna gasped. "No way!"

"It's true, Anna. I risked my life to save the crown prince of Arendelle. But my deed did not go unrewarded. The spirits gifted me with the most beautiful thing I could ever ask for."

"And what gift was that?" Anna asked.

Iduna turned to look at her eldest daughter.

"Elsa." She said happily.

"...Me?"

"You, my snowflake."

Elsa's eyes filled with tears. "...But H-how?"

"Elsa, how do you think you got your powers?"

"I... thought I was born with it."

"You were, my darling. But because of my selfless act of saving my enemy, who would later become the man I loved, The spirits gave me a tiny, beautiful baby girl with platinum-blond hair and the power to control ice and snow. When I was pregnant with you I would get massive chills in my belly, even during the summer. I never understood it until I held you in my arms for the first time."

Elsa was at a loss for words.

"Your powers are not a curse, Elsa. They are a gift from nature."

Elsa started sobbing quietly. Anna wrapped her arms around her older sister to comfort her.

"You hear that, sis? You are a gift, just like your powers."

Elsa wiped her tears and smiled at Iduna. "Thank you, Mother, for telling me that."

Iduna smiled back and nodded. "It is the truth, my darling."

"Okay, that's one question down. Next question, why did you two sail here in there first place?"

"We thought the source of Elsa's magic was Ahtohallan."

Elsa gasped. "Ahtohallan? It's real?"

"We don't know, Elsa. Our ship capsized before we even got close." Agnarr replied.

"So how did you two survive?"

"We were saved."

"Saved? By who?" Elsa asked, her eyes wide.

"The spirits. More specifically, the wind and water spirits."

"Why would they do that?"

"We don't know for sure, but I think it's because the recognized us from the day the mist appeared. They remembered that we had no part in the battle, and they saved us from drowning, but they couldn't let us leave because they needed us help create and maintain a fragile truce between the Northuldra and the soldiers." Iduna explained.

"That must've been a difficult peace to do for 6 years." Anna said.

"It wasn't peace, Anna. Even now, with everyone able to look at each other as allies and not enemies, Peace can't be restored until we break the mist." Agnarr sighed.

"How do we do that?" Elsa asked.

"We don't know..." Iduna sighed.

Anna and Elsa looked at each other with concern. To save Arendelle they needed to restore peace and free the forest.

"I suppose you two would like to know more about Sunna?"

"What more is there to know?"

"I named her after my mother."

Elsa's heart squeezed.

"We have a grandmother?"

Iduna's face darkened with sadness. "Not anymore..."

The sisters gasped quietly.

"Your grandmother was a good, but aging woman. I'm just glad I got to see her again. When I told her I was pregnant with her third grandchild, she had only one request: "If it's a girl, name her after me.". She died peacefully the next morning." Iduna finished in tears.

"Oh mother, I'm so sorry..."

"Thank you, darling."

"So, that's everything from your side of the story?"

"I'm so sorry we didn't tell you girls. But I was the only one your mother ever told her past to. I was afraid that if anyone found out, the people wouldn't only resent her, but you two as well."

"Because we're half-Northuldra..." Anna realized.

"We're so sorry we left you two without parents for six years, only to find out we were alive this whole time. But know that no matter the toll these past years had on both of us, we never, for even a single day, forgot about either of you, even after Sunna's birth. You two have made us both so, so proud for what you have done for Arendelle." Iduna's voice cracked on the last sentence.

Tears started forming in the sisters' eyes.

"Together, you two found the key for Elsa to control her magic, something we had failed to do for the thirteen years we had torn you two apart. I should've known better than to do such a horrible thing to you, my daughters." Agnarr choked out.

Elsa covered her mouth to stop her sob from bursting out.

"Could you ever forgive a foolish man like me?"

Elsa stood up and walked over to her father and hugged him with love.

"I forgive you, father."

Anna joined in the hug.

"I forgive you too. We will always love you, father."

Agnarr held his daughters tight. Iduna hugged them as well.

They pulled out of the hug and Anna spoke.

"Mother, I believe this belongs to you."

Iduna gasped as Anna opened her satchel and pulled out something she never thought she'd see again: Her scarf.

Tears filled Iduna's eyes. "After all these years... You still held onto it?"

"It was all we had left of you." Elsa explained.

Anna handed the scarf to her mother, who wrapped it around her shoulders.

"Oh, how I missed this old thing."

(CRASH!)

"What was that?!" Anna exclaimed.

Iduna gasped. "Oh no... The earth giants."