Kristoff woke up early the next morning as the light was coming in through the windows above them. The whole room had been ringed with windows, so that no matter where the sun was in the sky, the light would always shine in.

Elsa stirred in his arms as she felt him wake up. "Morning," she said as she nestled in closer to him.

"Morning. How do you feel today, Elsa?" said Kristoff with a bright smile.

Elsa moaned. "Like someone hit my head with a hammer. I never want to drink again."

Kristoff laughed. "I bet. You were pretty out of it last night."

Elsa hit him with her elbow. "I wasn't that out of it. We still need to have that talk."

"Yeah. Not looking forward to that," said Kristoff with a heavy sigh.

"What are you afraid of, Mister I Was Raised By Trolls? I would think that you wouldn't mind facing Anna after what you've been through together."

"Well you're her sister. How much are you going to enjoy it?"

"Ugh. Let's just stay here a few moments longer, please? We won't need to think about it so long as we don't get up," said Elsa as she nuzzled into his arms.

"Fine by me," said Kristoff, and he lay back and shut his eyes again.

A few moments later the door burst open and they heard a gasp, then the door slammed shut again and the pitter patter sound of distant running filled the air.

"Please tell me that wasn't Anna," said Elsa as she poked her head up above the couch.

"Don't know. I had my eyes shut," said Kristoff as he tried to concentrate on falling back asleep.

"Ha ha. Well, I'm getting up to so that I'll look presentable before she comes back and dies of a heart attack," said Elsa as she started to get up.

Kristoff just closed his arms around her. "Nope, I just fell asleep again. You're trapped."

Elsa giggled as she tried to free herself. "Kristoff, let me be! I am your Queen, you know," she said with a hearty push against his arms.

"But I'm a troll, and we turn to stone in the daylight. Looks like you're stuck here until nightfall."

Elsa laughed and leaned into him and lay there for a moment longer. "We really do need to be up and about, Kristoff. No need to set the rumor mill spinning any more than it might already be."

"Yeah," he said with a sigh, and let Elsa go.

She stayed with him a moment longer, then got up and stretched. "I'm going to go put on something queenly. Keep an eye on the door, will you?" she said as she sauntered over to the pile of gifts from Lord Derek and the rest of Weselton.

Kristoff was up like a shot when he realized what she meant. He got together some loose cloth and wrapped it around the door handles, ensuring that it wouldn't accidentally open up. No sense in letting some servant get a better view of his Queen than needed, after all.

Elsa, meanwhile, took her time slipping the clothes from the night before. The first thing she did was to remove the ice weave from it. Ice weave was Elsa's way of modifying clothes to her liking, and often parts of the original clothing wouldn't survive the transition. Such was the case now, as the entire back of her dress simply fell away. Next came her shoulder straps, and so soon Elsa was bare from the waist up. A few shimmies later and the bottom half of her dress fell away as well.

Kristoff tried not to stare, but he couldn't help but watch when he knew this was almost certainly all for him.

"Are you watching?" asked as she looked at him from over her shoulder. A mischievous smile danced across her face.

"Uh, oh, yeah. I most certainly am," Kristoff said as he tried to take his mind off of everything that had to do with the vision of loveliness in front of him.

"The door, I mean," said Elsa with a laugh.

"Oh. Right. Yes, I mean, oh yeah. I don't think that anyone's trying to get in," Kristoff said as he turned back to take a quick look at the door.

When he turned back around to sneak another look at Elsa, he found that she had already found a dress to her liking and was most of the way in putting it on. He sighed in disappointment, but quickly turned around when he heard the door rattle. "Elsa, you might want to hurry up," he said as he turned to consider undoing the knot.

"I'm ready. Let them in," she said as she tossed her hair.

A few moments later and the door opened up to reveal Anna on the other side.

"Good morning, Anna!" said Kristoff cheerfully. He hoped that she hadn't been waiting too long or had started to wonder what they were doing.

"Morning Kristoff, morning Elsa. I love your new dress," she said as she made her way over to the mound of gifts.

"Thank you, Anna. I don't think I'm going to modify this one. I rather like it," Elsa said as she sashayed away from the gifts she'd been undressing in front of.

"That's good, it's a good look," said Anna, not paying much attention to her as she did so. Anna had focused her gaze on digging through the mound of gifts in front of her and seemed to be looking for something in particular.

"Do you want any help?" asked Kristoff as Elsa worked her way over to stand next to him, but Anna just shook her head.

"No, I'm fine!" She said as she dug in deeper.

Kristoff sidled up next to Elsa and whispered in her ear. "She seems pretty content considering that she walked into a surprise cuddle earlier."

"Don't count on it," whispered Elsa back to him. "She's gotten good at hiding things, but I know it's eating her up inside. We need to talk about this before any longer."

"Yeah," said Kristoff as he looked at Anna. "Anna, there's something I want to ask you about," he began, but Anna ignored him.

"Here it is!" she said as she pulled out an ebony box. She carefully lifted the lid off of it and gasped.

"There's a little girl here," she said, trailing off as she did so.

Elsa and Kristoff went around to look down at the box from behind her, but they saw nothing more than their own reflections.

"Are you sure," said Elsa as she began to question Anna, but she too yelped in surprise as the mirror's reflection changed yet again.

No longer was it their own faces looking back at them. Instead, there was a deathly pale face that floated there against an inky black darkness.