Frozen Beyond [gxg]

Guest in the Castle

While the queasy feeling she felt around Keahi didn't entirely go away, excitement and the need to see her replaced it.

The leaves were completely gone from the trees, and the first brisk chill of winter started to sweep its way through Arendelle. Frost chomped at the morning dew and everyone was starting to light fires in their hearths and wear warmer clothing.

Except Keahi. Who still wore cut off sleeves shirts and didn't look like the crisp chill affected her. Even as they sat on the edge of the fountain in front of the castle, the sun setting along the horizon to their back.

Elsa gawked at her, trying to figure it out. Keahi's cheeks didn't look windburnt or flushed from the chill.

"Does it not affect you?" She finally asked, tilting her head in curiosity.

"Does what affect me?" Keahi asked with a clueless expression on her face. She didn't look up from the small hunk of wood she was whittling in front of her. Using the short knife to carve out a figure that Elsa didn't pay enough attention to.

Elsa stood, motioning her arms to the breeze that started, "The cold?"

"Oh," Keahi replied simply, shrugging and pausing the carving of the wood. "Does it affect you?" She asked with a coy smirk.

"No, but..." Elsa trailed off and scowled. Keahi was just being coy with her. Something more was going on with Keahi that she wouldn't say and Elsa crossed her arms. If she didn't want to say, that was her business. But it made her wonder what secrets she held.

"I can see you thinking." Keahi's voice cut through her thoughts.

"I'm not." She huffed back, sitting back down and crossing her legs.

Keahi leaned in close, a wolfish grin on her lips. "You are, what secrets are you trying to figure out?"

Elsa leaned away to give them more space. "So, you have secrets?"

"Everyone has secrets." Keahi replied plainly as she leaned back.

"There you are, Elsa!" Anna took the steps castle door so rapidly, she stumbled on the last one before making it over to the two.

"Oh, hello." Anna directed towards Keahi, surprised. "You must be the friend that Elsa has been going out to see the past few weeks," Anna tucked a strand of loose hair behind her ear before she held out her hand, "I'm Anna, her you know, sister. We met once before, dancing." She laughed breathlessly. "Elsa isn't usually one to make friends, so this is exciting."

Anna gripped Elsa's arm and Elsa cleared her throat, her palms sweating as she knew exactly what Anna would do next.

"Want to come play charades? Maybe we'll have the chance to beat the boys!" Anna jeered, excited.

Keahi arched a brow towards Elsa and then Anna. "Elsa? Play charades? How bad is she?" She laughed.

"Horrible, but it's all right few people are good at family games." Anna waves her hand dismissively.

Elsa gawked at the two and put her hands on her hips. "I'm not...that bad." She wasn't... that terrible, was she?

"All right, let's go!" Anna announced, holding her dress so she wouldn't trip over it as she ascended the stairs and disappeared inside.

Keahi rubbed her hands together, bumping shoulders with Elsa. "The poised and graceful Elsa playing a crazy game of charades? I wouldn't miss this for the world!" She looked entirely too excited about this.

Keahi tossed the little wooden figurine she had been carving at Elsa, who caught it swiftly in her hands. Elsa turned it over, her cheeks warming when she realized it was a miniature carving of her.