The queen led the foreigners to the castle, insisting they be housed at the castle and not one of the local inns, wanting to keep her eyes on the visitors. With the princess and her crew there was around 20 people both men and women. They stood out against the town's people of Arendelle, with their dark hair and strange men's clothing. The visitors drew stares with every step they took but it did not seem to bother most of them. The visiting princess stuck close to the tall man who seemed to be the leader of the group as they walked. They neared the castle and the queen pretended not to hear the princess when she tried to strike up a conversation about its architecture. The second the group walked through the doors the staff took the majority of the visitors to the guest rooms to get settled in but left the princess and the tall man behind to talk with the queen.
"While you are here you will be able to go where you please around both the town and grounds of the castle. You will be staying in our finest guest rooms and..." the queen was cut off by Princess Anna running down the stairs.
"Elsa! Have you heard about…?" Anna said a little too loudly as she ran. The princess screeched to a halt at the bottom of the stairs realizing the queen was not alone. She blushed and smiled at their guests.
"Oh, Hi, I am Princess Anna of Arendelle. You are?" The princess asked while extending her hand to the guests.
"Princess Emily of Torandale. Your sister was kind enough to offer to house me and my crew. We have come a long way to meet the famous "Ice Queen"." Emily finished looking at Elsa.
"Oh you have why?" Anna pressed
"Anna!" The queen shushed her sister.
"No its fine really. I have come looking for your sister because I too have powers like she does. Only my power is the power of fire." Emily explained to a wide eyed Anna.
"Well my sister and I must be off; we have some things to discuss. The staff will show you to your room." Elsa said as she swept her sister away down the hall before she could embarrass the queen any further.
As soon as they stepped into the queens study Anna wouldn't let the queen get a word in. Ranting on about how amazing a situation they were in and how happy and yet scared she was that there were other people like Elsa out there. The queen finally placed a hand on her sister mouth to quiet her.
"You are not to pester them with questions and they are too be left alone while they are here." Elsa said before removing her hand from Anna's mouth.
"Why are you not freaking out like I am Els! This is amazing, you are not alone"
"I wasn't alone before, I had you."
"You know what I mean Els." Anna protested as she pulled the door open to leave.
"I meant what I said before Anna, don't pester them"
"Oh I am sure she won't." The foreigner spoke from beyond the door that Anna had opened. There the visiting princess stood with a smile on her face, inevitably from what she had overheard. Looking between the two flustered girls the princess decided to continue speaking as no one else was going to. "Me and some of the crew were going to start a game of football out in the back garden and thought it rude not to invite our hosts to play. Oh ah, football is a game played…" she was cut off by the queen
"We know what football is." The queen said rather rudely before being shot a look by her sister.
"Yes we have heard tell of the game, it's played by some of the nearby kingdoms, but not so much here. I have never played but I will certainly come watch!" Anna said happily. "Elsa?"
"No, I have far too much work. But you have fun Anna." The girls left and Elsa had the sinking feeling that she was going to be alone a lot in the next few days. She started pacing as soon as it became clear that she was not going to get any work done.
"They invited you to their game, she is offering to teach you for free, and they have given you no reason to mistrust them. So why do you act rudely towards them? You are the queen, you know better." The queen thought while pacing. After about ten minutes of this she had decided to embrace the idea of guests, if not for herself then for her sister. She had to learn how to control her powers one way or another and this girl was offering her free lessons. For all she knew this girl could be the only other person like her in the entire world. She spotted the guests game out the window, and she stared down at them running back and forth. Before she knew it she was out of her study and walking towards the door of the castle. Walking across the grass she allowed herself to take notice of the way the leaves were starting to change in the autumn sun, the way the birds flew overhead. When she sat down on the grass next to a very comfortable Anna smiling at her, for the first time in forever she allowed herself to relax and enjoy life.