The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway

by AubriFalls

"Conceal. Don't feel." I can barely hear his whisper. He chants it several times, his breathing gradually becoming calmer and steadier. The trails of smoke dissolve. He shifts his weight from the tree back to his own feet, and swivels around to face me. "My name is Ember."

2. Chapter 2

What is the only thing strong enough to melt a raging ice storm?

I do believe we all know the answer.

It's love.

Love saved both my kingdom and my sister.
If there were no love, my kingdom would be doomed to the infinite cold and my sister would still be frozen.

That being said, I feel as though I am expected to tell you that love was the answer to all of our problems and that there on after we were all set free.
After all, this is a fairytale and fairytales always have happy endings. How can it be a fairytale if it does not have a happy ending? Is it still a fairytale if there is no happy ending?
With just a few words, I will shatter all of the magic that you might've seen in this story that you know of. In this story where love came out as the victor and we all lived happily ever after.

Love wasn't strong enough.

At this moment you are probably now very disappointed in me, because as a princess in a fairytale, I should never have said a thing like that.

But I did, and I meant it.

You see, I have a secret.
I haven't told a single soul yet, so I am placing my utmost trust in you.
I fear that Anna might find out and I do not want her to.
She's so excited for her wedding, and I do not wish to dampen her spirits until she and Kristoff are wed.

The cold is now bothering me... and it is making me ill.

Having powers of any sort is an unnatural thing. Humans were just not meant to be in control of anything that big.
Whether it be wind or water or ice, it will always eventually overcome the individual.
Wind will always seek to blow, water to drown, ice to freeze, and so on and so forth. No one is strong enough to fight the will of nature.

I am not strong enough to fight the will of nature.

Love is not strong enough to fight the will of nature.

Because love can thaw the world around me.
It can melt my kingdom and rescue my sister, but love cannot save me.
Because the ice will always be within me.
The ice will always seek to freeze. If I will not let it consume the outside world, then it will consume me.

I am dying. I am going to be frozen.