Over the next few weeks, Calypso and Elsa spent a lot of time together; as much as possible. The two got to know each other pretty well, talking about everything and anything together. Calypso was very easy to be around, and the only difficulty of spending time with her was Elsa having fallen in love with her at first sight. She saw why Aphrodite would put them together now. They were different, yet similar. The perfect amount of each. They were different enough so that they weren't bored with the other, or able to think about things in the exact same way, but similar enough that they had some general similar interests.

For example, their love for books. Elsa personally preferred beautifully written love stories, poems, and happy stories. She loved things that ended happily, for they gave her hope. Calypso however liked to read tearjerkers. She loved mysteries. She preferred to avoid romance. But they did have some books that they both loved.

The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins was one that they both took interest in. It wasn't something Elsa would have read had it not been recommended to her by both Piper and Annabeth. Elsa leant it to Calypso, who read the trilogy in less than a week, saying that she'd stayed up late reading all of them, and couldn't put them down. Both of them were also deeply engaged into The Shadow Children series by Ransom Riggs. Another book was The Giver by Lois Lowry. Elsa even shared her go-to book for when she needed to read something calming that would lift her spirits; The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester. Elsa wished that she'd been able to read it when she was younger, for it reminded her of the importance of being herself; her powers, fate, immortality, and all. She cried happy tears the first time she read it.

Anyway, Elsa shared her books with Calypso, and the two could go on for hours talking about their mutual favorite books, with lit up eyes, animated hands, and words coming out of their mouths on rapid-fire.

"Thank you for lending this one to me." Calypso told Elsa at breakfast, handing her back To Kill a Mockingbird. "This was… Well…"

"It's hard to put into words, isn't it?" Elsa smiled at her friend. "Annabeth recommended that one to me. She said that she had to read it for school, and ended up loving it."

"That sounds like it's rare for most demigods." Calypso commented. "Most have dyslexia and ADHD, don't they?" Elsa nodded.

"They do, but I don't." She explained. "That's why I have the patience to read. Annabeth often listens to audiobooks in order to read, perhaps following along in an actual copy of the book. Piper does not have dyslexia, so she does enjoy reading. Both of them are friends of mine, though I prefer to either be alone, or with my really good friends. I care about them, I just… I just don't—" Elsa paused. "It's frustrating for me to be around people who don't understand what it's like. For me, it's really rare to have an instant connection with someone, the way I did with you and Nico. The reason is one that I will have to explain later, but let me just put it like this; feeling any kind of love for someone is rare, whether it is platonic or romantic. Only very… Special… People are ones I feel love for. It's very complicated, but please just bear with me."

"So you had an instant connection with me?" The caramel haired girl asked. The blonde nodded.

"I'm sorry if it sounds strange." She cringed. "I'm having a hard time explaining it without telling you everything, which I'm not ready to do yet."

"It's alright." Calypso assured her. "I sort of get it."

"That's the least I was hoping for." Elsa admitted. "One of the hard things about this is that there have been both boys and girls who have confessed feelings for me. Unfortunately, I had to tell them that I am aromantic. I would feel badly about lying, but it was just easier."

"What's aromantic?" Calypso asked. "I don't think I've ever heard of that before."

"Someone who is aromantic is someone who doesn't experience romantic attraction. As you probably know, there are different types of attraction. I am unable to be romantically attracted to people until something specific happens. Physical attraction, the most commonly talked about form of attraction, is something I do feel. But I didn't want to give anyone false hope." Elsa explained.

"Oh, I get it." The caramel haired girl nodded.

"I feel like I should offer an explanation as to why I am the way I am." Elsa chuckled nervously, realizing that this must have all sounded really strange.

"You don't have to." Calypso assured her.

"No; no. It's fine." Elsa shook her head. "In short… I was cursed. My mother put a curse on me. That's the truth in the most basic form."

"That's horrible." Calypso looked shocked.

"My mother was horrible." Elsa grimaced. "And sadistic. Other immortals have assured me that they're glad that I am her replacement, and that they are sure that I will be much more pleasant and tolerable than her."

"I'm completely positive that you will be, based on what you've told me." Calypso smiled at Elsa, laughter in her eyes. "But I highly doubt it's very hard to be more pleasant than your mother." The blonde shrugged.

"I was raised by a firmer hand and stricter rules than my mother." She said slowly. "She was spoiled. I was raised to be respectful and formal. I didn't know of my destiny. She did. We… We grew up in very different situations." The other girl nodded.

"It must be unbelievable now; knowing who and what you were meant to be this whole time…" Elsa smiled at Calypso, nodding.

"I'm still having a hard time grasping everything." She said dryly. "I mean… I'd just killed three people after going through a whole bunch of horrors, and then I found out that I was meant to be a goddess, and that everything's just leading up to that. Right now, I'm just tying up loose ends and waiting." What Elsa wasn't saying was that she, in fact, was desperately trying to tie up extremely loose ends, which was her issue with her frozen heart.

"What do you think you'll do once you do become a goddess?" Calypso asked.

"Perhaps get married." Elsa said thoughtfully. "That sounds nice. To have someone I love by my side in immortality… I think that it would be horrible to be alone. I don't think I'll sire any children though. I know how hard it is to be a demigod."

"Sounds a lot like you want to be the type of goddess who is more… Um… Traditional…" Calypso remarked.

"It's an effect of how I was raised." Elsa shrugged. "Unfortunately, it'll always be there. My past will always be there. There's the good, and the bad. The bad is like scars that I hide, but only show to certain people. My hidden scars do make me who I am, however. I do regret a lot of things, and wish that they'd never happened, but they've helped me to be what I hope is a good person. Anyway, because my father was unfaithful, I swore to myself that I never would be."

"Out of curiosity, who would you marry anyway?" Calypso inquired. Elsa froze, discreetly biting her lip. Had she not been immortal, she might have had a heart attack or had heart failure.

"I don't know." Elsa replied, her voice somewhat strained. "It depends, I guess."

"I see." The caramel haired girl nodded. "Personally, I don't know if I could ever want a romantic relationship ever again. I don't know, though. Perhaps I'll just take a break from romantic relationships."

With that, Elsa felt her heart and hopes sink. Calypso really didn't want to get romantically involved. Not that she could necessarily blame her. After all, Calypso had been forced to fall for all too many people, and then gotten her heart broken when they left. If Elsa were in her shoes, she'd feel the exact same way.

But still; Elsa needed Calypso to love her back. She wanted Calypso's love, as well as needing it. She knew that this wouldn't be easy, but she would do her best to earn Calypso's love.

But right now, love was being cruel to Elsa. Of course, though. Aphrodite promised that she would lead Elsa right to her soulmate (Khione had actually had a hand in that as well, but Elsa didn't want to credit someone so horrible for something that was a sort of favor), so that she wouldn't have to fret over whether or not she had actually met the person yet or not. Though, Aphrodite had turned her in the right direction, but she had not given her a push of any sort, as to not favor her any more than she already had. Elsa knew it was for the best. She would have to work for Calypso's love; it would not just be handed to her. Just because she was going to be a goddess did not mean that she was going to have special treatment, and Elsa found this fair, though she didn't want to admit it to herself.

The immature part of her pouted over the fact that she had fallen for Calypso; a girl who wanted nothing to do with romance anymore, but the mature part of her recognized what Aphrodite was doing; both of them had frozen hearts, in a manner of speaking. Elsa's was not by choice, and she was doing everything she could to melt it and open her heart to love of all kinds. Calypso's, however, was by choice. She had closed her heart to romantic love, but in doing that, she was freezing her heart. She was trying to heal her heart by freezing it. And that was not good. So Elsa had to do her best to melt Calypso's frozen heart.