A/N: This is a really short segment, but it'll hopefully make everyone happy that I've updated. Feel free to comment on this or This Calling, though please realize that the other story is finished.

The Slipshod Collection

Elsanna Week 2014, Prompt 2: First Kiss

Kindness in the summer sun

Is no match for winter's fun

Elsa stared perplexedly at the couplet, its meaning lost on her. Who would have…? And why? The scrap of parchment was subject to further intense scrutiny, icy veins flaking across its thin, fragile surface, blurring the words with frost.

She shook her head and deposited the slip onto her desk, making a note to ask Kai and Gerda about the paper and to screen her incoming mail better.

Symphonies sing their joyous song

Striking melodies, beautiful and long

This time, the note was on her supper platter. She frowned.

"Kai."

He approached, stilty legs carrying his rotund body with ease. "Your highness?"

"What is the meaning of these notes?"

Kai squinted. "It would seem someone has left you some food for thought, as it were."

The queen snorted. "My initial impression of the dining hall was that it would serve food for eating, not food for thought. Perhaps I've grown distant from more recent tradition in my monarchy."

Kai laughed. "Certainly not. We merely await your sister's arrival before the meal begins."

And several terse moments later, Anna flounced through the doors and plopped into her seat with a flourish, gorging herself on the delicious meal under the mirthful gaze of her elder sister.

A touch of joy and mild surprise

No lack of sparkle in bright blue eyes

This one again in her chambers, resting as a bookmark in her ledger. She growled.

"Gerda."

The nursemaid immediately flew into the room. "M'lady?"

"Who has been leaving these notes around the castle for me?"

"Notes?"

Elsa plucked the second from her bodice and held the three for the elder woman to see. Careful scrutiny burned its way down the pieces.

"They seem to have been torn from the same sheet of parchment."

"And what's more, the jagged tail edge tells me there's at least one more to follow."

"But if you've been getting these all day, then it must be someone close-by."

"Sanction the guards and servants away from my chambers. Only those with the highest privilege are permitted near my door this evening."

"Of course, your highness."

"Never once has your beauty been missed by me

And I'd harken to kiss you, endlessly."

Elsa rolled over, colliding with something solid but malleable that should not have been in her bed so late at night. Her eyes flew open and she lunged backward, nearly tumbling from the bed in her haste. The intruder giggled.

"The sky's awake, Elsa."

The queen relaxed, slumping back into her pillow. "For the love of Valhalla, Anna, you gave me such a fright."

"Sorry."

The queen waved her arm, popping an eye open as she attempted to quiet her thrumming heart. "No matter. You're here, and the only time you come to my chambers at night is when you have something you want or need."

Anna blinked, then cleared her throat, drawing four small slips of parchment before her face.

Kindness in the summer sun

Is no match for winter's fun

Symphonies sing their joyous song

Striking melodies, beautiful and long

A touch of joy and mild surprise

No lack of sparkle in bright blue eyes

Never once has your beauty been missed by me

And I'd harken to kiss you, endlessly

The redhead was blushing profusely, even by the lack of visibility in the darkened room. Elsa blinked.

"You've been writing these couplets for me."

Her sister nodded, chewing a lip. "There's one more…it's a bit unrelated…"

She cleared her throat.

The message you seek to try and define

Is hidden for you at the start of each line.

Elsa blinked again, her brain fogged by fatigue and her previous scare. "What?"

Anna held all four slips out for her sister to grasp. Elsa reread the entire list of couplets six times before looking up at her sister.

"It took me all week to figure out how to write this stuff down," Anna admitted sheepishly.

"That would explain the time spent harassing the library's maids," Elsa mused. "But what does it mean?"

The message you seek to try and define

Is hidden for you at the start of each line.

Elsa gave pause, rereading the first word of each couplet. Kindness is symphony string a no never and? "I don't understand…"

Then it clicked. Her eyes widened. She looked up, only to have the papers crumple in her fist as a pair of soft, pleading lips graced her own.

Yay riddles. Hopefully everyone got it. If not, go back and reread: the first letters say "KISS ANNA". Comment if you'd like. I love you all, my gentle snowflakes, and I've just sat down to write the Nightmare fic for Elsanna week. Be prepared: it's not gonna be pretty. ~Kyttin