Frozen: A Desire for More

Chapter 25

Exiting the inn, Anna and Kristoff took a stroll through town. Many of the towns folk recognized her, but didn't pay her any mind. They would call her "your highness", nod respectfully and continue walking. So often did Anna skip around town that no one was surprised to see her anymore. In fact, some of the kids had gotten to know her so well that they called her "Big Sis" and invited her to play with them. 

As they walked through town, they discovered that the excited crowd looking for Elsa had dispersed. Anna asked one of the kids why the people suddenly didn't seem interested anymore, and they told her that a rumor said the Queen had already returned to the castle. No one has seen her cross the bridge, but some folk say that they saw her enter the castle while wearing  the attire of a towns girl. 

"Do you think she has gone back?" Kristoff asked.

"I don't know," Anna contemplated. "She doesn't have any clothes that match the description."

"Let's head back," Kristoff suggested. "If she still isn't back, then we can come out to look for her again."

Nodding, Anna agreed. 

Strolling through the market place they paid a visit to the carrot stand, asking Olaf if he had seen Elsa. He shook his head, saying that there was an excited crowd, but Elsa hadn't tried to make contact with him. 

Hand in hand, Anna and Kristoff headed back to the castle.

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Elsa had requested for Anja to help her bathe. Honored to be the only one in the presence of Queen, she prepared a hot bath at record speed. Afterwards Elsa had put on her ice dress, showing Anja for the first time the transformative powers of her ice magic. She was sure that she wouldn't see Rainer again before dinner, and allowed herself to play with some of her magic. As a token of gratitude, she created an ice dress for Anja too. So stunned was the servant girl that she didn't know what to say anymore. Instead, Elsa forced the dress into her hands and told her to go change. 

Minutes later, Anja had stepped out and her body shone with the bright ice fabric that only Elsa could make. 

"Here," Elsa said and took off her ice cape. 

She clipped it on Anja's shoulders and summoned an ice mirror in front of her. Coincidentally, the servant maid had the same platinum blonde hair color as Elsa, only her nose and cheeks were slightly different. 

"Actually...wait," Elsa grinned, and for the first time in her life Anja heard what the Queen sounded like when she was excited. 

Elsa took her make up kit and because the chair was on the other side of the room, she decided to create an ice chair instead. She told Anja to sit down, unaware that the maid didn't have the same resistance towards the cold as she did and hence her bottom felt icy cold. 

"Let's see what magic we can do here," Elsa smiled and began applying eyeliner. 

After several minutes of experimentation, Elsa completed her masterpiece. Anja walked up to the mirror and examined herself. Her eyes widened and her jaw dropped. With the power of make up, Elsa had managed to turn her into her twin. If she looked closely, she still looked different from Elsa, but from further away, with the different layers of makeup Elsa had applied, one could not tell that she was not the Queen. The only difference was that although she wore the same ice dress, her posture was still of that of a servant and she did not radiate the awesome authority Elsa had, the authority that made everyone understand that she was the Queen. 

"Your majesty!" Anja flushed red. She didn't know what she should say. Should she be happy or horrified? She didn't understand why Elsa would make her look like this.