Estelle rushed to her room directly. Once she slammed the door, she could feel her whole body shaking, frost had crept beneath where she stood and extended to everywhere and started creeping up onto the walls.
As an eight-year-old, she perfectly knew she should not have been so disobedient and yelled at her mother because of her raging temper. But as she saw her hands glowing with blue aura in the dark room, she panicked.
She wondered if her shot to her mother could cause pain and suffer. Though knowing the queen had immunity to coldness, Estelle was not sure if her ice could hurt her mother. Thinking that one day she could harm or even kill someone, she shuddered.
Just then, there was a knock on the door. Estelle jerked and tried to make all the ice disappear with her unstable magic.
"It's me, Aunt Anna. You don't have to be afraid."
Aunt Anna was different from Mama, she thought. She immediately shrugged off the horrible idea and opened the door.
"Wow, you are surely like your mother, trying to turn your room into something…."
"Horrible?"
"Not really. But I think you should get it back to normal state before your mother sees it."
Estelle was relieved, she knew being with Aunt Anna was a lot comfortable than with the queen. Anna and Estelle sat on the bed and smiled at each other.
"So, you have an argument with your mother?" Anna asked.
Estelle first tried to shake her head, but finally gave a hesitant nod.
"Why do I have to bear the magic when I am the heir?" Estelle moaned.
"Your mother has asked herself this question before." Anna pointed out.
"Yeah?"
"I remembered when she was in your age, she was alone in her rooms, locked for most of her time."
"She told me about that."
"On her coronation day, her magic was revealed, in a threatening way, forcing her to escape to the North Mountains."
"Mama had been to North Mountains?"
"Then the whole Arendelle was suffered from heavy snow when it was July. Your mother always thought that she was the one who used magic to curse the land. Actually, her magic is the key to protect our land. Once she returned, she thawed the nation and…"
"Lived happily ever after?" Estelle said the usual phrase that she would hear from tales.
"Probably." Anna grinned.
"So my magic is also the protection for my nation?"
"I cannot answer that, I am not Grand Pabbie."
"Grand Pabbie?"
"Oops." Anna covered her mouth with her slender fingers, obviously knowing that she had talked too much again. "But never mind, it is not that bad to have magic, right?"
"But I think I will hurt someone with it."
"Not if you control your emotions." Anna said and thought for the great thaw happened in 11 years ago.. "And love can help too."
"Love?"
"Yeah, something like that." Anna stood up and straightened her dress. "It's very late now. Just take some sleep and tomorrow's a new day."
Anna left the room, and closed the door quietly.
Elsa walked along the dark corridor. There were still small icicles stuck on her dress, unwilling to fall off and melt.
What can I do? She had asked for more than a dozen times before she entered her bedroom.
"Looks like someone's is in a bad mood." Erik said.
"No, I am not." Elsa said while putting her magenta cape onto the coat hanger.
"It seems that you are too harsh on Estelle." Erik stepped forward and undid her hair. At instant, her bun fell, showing itself as the French plait that used to have before Estelle's birth.
"You look beautiful when you have your hair down, along with that ice dress." Erik pointed out.
How could Elsa forget? Years ago, she was still having her French plait woven with snowflakes incrustation and her bangs slicked back on top of her head. There she was, standing in front of the people with the gates opened. With her ice power, she made a skiing ground, and she glided with her sister. That was when she saw Erik, a tall handsome prince from some small countries. From his telling, he was thirteenth in-line of succession, obviously no hope in ruling his country. Elsa immediately had a peculiar feeling about him. Within that year, their love was confirmed by marriage.
"That's was years ago. I cannot act like that when Estelle is here." Elsa walked behind the screen to undress herself. "Not only I have to be a princess' mother, but a queen. I cannot just go around acting crazy like Anna."
"But I think she is miserable, not just for these days, but since we have taught her about the country, she was at first excited, but then when you introduced the magic-controlling lesson to her. She was less happy, I can feel it even though when she is putting a smile on her face. It seems that she was unwilling to learn anymore."
"But she has to, it is her duty." Elsa said when she came out with her nightgown. Her hair was long and smooth like silk. She was no longer a queen, but an exhausted lady.
"Perhaps the words 'duty' and 'heir' are burdens to her."
"It is, but that's what she has to do." She blew out the candle light on the nightstand and slipped into the cozy quilt.
"Is that what she is willing to do?" Erik lay beside her and whispered.
"Freedom and rights come with responsibility." Elsa explained. "She is the heir and she have to take everything on her own, even when the burden too big for her."
"If we can give her siblings." Erik winked at Elsa.
At instant, pink tinges appeared her cheeks, she could feel her cheeks were hot from embarrassment. She pinched him gently and turned aside, trying to ignore him. In return, he put his arm around her waist and lay his head on her shoulder.
"Sometimes I feel very happy. I have a family, a charming and devoted wife, and a lovely and beautiful daughter." He mutters. "It seems to be so unreal, as if I am in a dream and it never exists in real life."
"What if it isn't?"
"Then I will never wake up, just to be sure that whenever I open my eyes again, you are still by my side."