It took Anna quite some time before she was able to haul the mirror all the way up to her chambers. It was larger than a normal mirror, and it seemed to grew heavier with each step she took. She wasn't sure if she was glad that she had no help or frustrated. On the one hand, it gave her a good reason to stay angry with Kristoff since he wasn't here to help her move it. On the other hand, though, help would have been nice and the emptiness in the halls was a little disconcerting. She hadn't wanted to run into Lord Derek, of course, since it was his mirror, but there weren't any servants either. So far as she could tell, there wasn't anyone at all.

After Anna finally got to her chambers and fumbled around with the door handle while not setting the mirror down, she finally was able to set the mirror down and take a good look at it. It seemed to be very ornate at first glance. She thought that the mirror was polished marble set into well crafted hickory frame. But the more she looked at it, the more she realized that the mirror was indeed very magical. The frame changed from moment to moment and the shade of the marble shifted with each passing second. It seemed that the mirror had total control over how it looked. With great care, Anna set it down onto the bed and removed her own mirror from where it rested on the wall behind her changing partition, then carefully set the enchanted mirror in its' place.

"Ok mirror. You didn't work before, so let's give this another go. Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" asked Anna, more out of a sense of giving it a trial run than real curiosity.

"I've already showed you once; do I really need to do it again?" asked the face in the mirror.

"You talk! I mean, you are magic so it shouldn't be a surprise, since the last magic thing I used could talk as well, but you didn't talk before!" cried Anna as she stumbled back against the partition. She'd previously been privy to a magical Crown that gave her magic and guided her actions. She didn't remember much of what it did while she wore it, though.

"I did not feel the need then. Repetition, however, tends to bring it out," said the mirror in an annoyed tone.

"Well, what else can you do that you didn't bring up earlier?" asked Anna.

"I can do many things. I know many things. Ask, child, and I shall tell you what you wish to learn."

"Well, I don't know, that's a big question. There's a lot I want to know about," said Anna.

"Shall I show you the sun?" asked the mirror and just like that it shifted from its' white face to that of a blazing, brilliant light.

Anna stumbled backward into the partition and knocked it over, blinded by the radiant glow.

"Or shall I show you the distant stars and their gaseous lagoons of light?" it asked as the image changed into that of a wash of blue and green set against a pure black night filled with a beautiful spectrum of stars that Anna had never seen before. "I can see many things. I know many things. There are very few limits on what is open to me. What is it that you, Anna, Princess of Arendelle, wish to know?"

"I want to know about," began Anna and then stopped, ashamed by her question.

"You wish to know about Kristoff and Elsa, yes?" completed the mirror for her. "So you ask, and so it is done."

The image changed, showing a scene of Kristoff speaking to Elsa. "I've felt things about you ever since I met you, Elsa. It's like you're my world come to life. Beautiful, dangerous, cold, and no matter what I do I just can't imagine life without you."

The image faded back into the cold, pale face after that. "Do you wish to see more, Princess Anna?' it asked.

Anna, near tears, said "No, I don't want to see any more. Mirror, show me something else."

The face in the mirror nodded and faded into an image of Lord Derek and Kristoff fighting in melee combat.

"Good block, but not fast enough!" cried Lord Derek as he batted Kristoff around like a rag doll in swordplay.

"Kristoff!" cried Anna in horror as Lord Derek bashed away at a helpless Kristoff.

"This has already come to pass, Princess, and your Kristoff yet lives," said the mirror as it cut to an image of Elsa tending his injuries afterward with much more care than Anna thought was necessary.

"I don't want to see any more of this sort of thing, mirror," said Anna as she averted her gaze.

"Then what do you wish to see, Princess? Flowing rivers? Gentle steams? Loved ones? Or knowledge, perhaps?" asked the mirror.

"What do you mean? What kind of knowledge?" asked Anna.

"I could show you how to regain Kristoff's love," said the mirror in the smug tone of someone who knew exactly what they were talking about.

"And just what do you mean by that?" asked Anna, not at all surprised.

"I can show you the magic you need to regain his love. There is a power inside you that is as great as the one that dwells in your sister. I can teach you how to let it out, how to channel it, how to use it. Trust in me, and I will make real your heart's desire."

"I know that I have magic. The Wendigo Ice Crown tried to teach me ice magic but it didn't seem to stick. What makes you think that you could do better than it did?" asked Anna. The Ice Crown boasted that it had awoken her innate magical talent, but after they'd gotten rid of it what little ice magic she thought she could do faded to nothing. She could still feel it right at her fingertips, but it was always just out of grasp.

The face in the mirror laughed, a deep and dark thing. "The Wendigo is a foolish brute, full of thunder and light with no grasp of how the world works. Your powers do not lie with ice and snow, Princess; your powers lay with myst and shadow and it is a mark of true power. Few can learn it, and fewer still can master it, but in you I sense great potential."

A flicker of shadow arched out from the wall behind the mirror and stroked Anna's cheek. It was a cold thing and at first Anna wanted to move away; it felt as though it was trying to reach into her mind for something, like the Ice Crown had before. In a few moments though, her mind flashed back to the way that Kristoff had acted towards her over the last few weeks and all thought of the Mirror was forgotten. It was now obvious to her that his affection had been waning and that she had been a fool not to have noticed it. "I bet they had a big laugh over that," muttered Anna to herself. "Alright, mirror. Let's start with the basics."