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Loved - The Letter

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Loved - The Letter

Elsa picked up her breakfast tray and took it into her room. As she carried it to her desk she noticed a letter tucked under the napkin. 

Since it was a letter she thought it could wait so she concentrated on her breakfast without freezing it.

Had Anna decided to start sending her letters as a way to communicate? It was certainly better than talking through a door. 
Elsa had mixed feelings about that. She loved her sister so deeply. She wanted to spend her whole days with Anna but that was impossible with her powers. Elsa needed to protect her sister from her powers. 

Elsa placed her wood handed utensils together and across her plate, then she opened the letter. 

“To your royal highness crown princess Elsa of Arendelle,”
The letter began. Elsa frowned, she thought that Anna was being ridiculously formal. Was Anna trying to be funny?

Anna was never that formal when she was outside her door. Elsa didn't answer very well but Anna would just talk and talk but didn’t ask her to come out anymore.

"I do hope that you are well and that the weather in Arendelle is agreeable."

What was Anna talking about? They could see the weather outside the windows well enough. More or less. The vast majority of the windows were closed so no one could see her powers if they slipped out.

The last few weeks had been she'd been a good girl and not used her powers for anything and they hadn't leaked out. She was getting better at being aware of the feeling of her powers before they leaked out and she could head them off by distracting herself with counting or something. 

Elsa read through the rest of the letter quickly trying to figure out what Anna was trying to say. It seemed like the most nonsensical letter she had ever read.

Then she came to the signature, it hadn’t been from Anna at all.

It had been from a prince. 

Elsa blinked.

She re-read the letter with new eyes. Her mouth dropped open about halfway down the page. She heard a soft pop as she stared at the letter. Then little snowflakes began to land on the letter.

Elsa looked up. A soft snow was falling romantically in her room. 

She placed the letter under the tray to protect it and attempted a calming exercise to control her powers.

Elsa tried to calm herself but it was so difficult. Part of her was over the clouds because someone, some prince, wanted to court her. It didn't matter to her that she had no idea who he was. Was there a chance to find love? For the first time it felt possible. 

It began to snow more heavily because the other part of her was terrified. She had to keep her powers hidden. That was an absolute. Without that, people would find out about her powers and they would attack her and terrible things would happen. 

It was bizarre as her emotions oscillated between giddiness and mortal terror. 
Trying to control or calm them wasn't working. Right now she wanted to feel and ride the waves

The snow in her room began to swirl. 

Elsa noticed the warning sign of an impending outburst. 

Elsa had to do something about the snow that was falling in her quarters. She didn't like having to use her powers, She knew she shouldn't use her powers but it was the only way to clean up without it being completely obvious because of water damage. 
Having a carpenter climb around the residence level looking for a leak in the roof had told her that she needed to be careful. 

She could do a lot of damage with her powers. When her powers would get out of control and she zapped the walls it showed until she worked out how to clean up the ice and smooth out the wallpaper and repair the wood. Fixing that kind of stuff was difficult. 

Elsa folded her hands and closed her eyes. She imagined her fear before her. Fear was her enemy, but how do you fight something within you. You can't run away nor escape this enemy. 

Fear was a large green monster and Elsa usually had to coax her from concentrating on being discovered, but this time fear was rampaging between two things. Now for the first time it was the fear of being found out and now fear of never finding love. 

Fear was clinging to fear of being found out. The old familiar thing worn smooth after all this time. Fear would rage at that and Elsa would try to ease fear away from it and make it distance. 

Now that wasn't working because now fear could leap to the new pole of not finding love ever. Easing fear from that only allow fear to return to the pole of being found out. 

After much back and forth they were exhausted and Elsa opened her eyes. There was a thick layer of snow on the floor, bed and tables, but it was finally stopped. Elsa made it sublimate away before it started to melt too much.

Elsa stumbled to window to the cool fall day to let out the excess humidity. It was cool in her room, but it was nearly as humid as a sauna in her room.

Dragging herself back to her desk she pulled the letter from under the tray. She needed to talk to her mother about how to handle this. She had to reply but doing it while putting them off was vital. 
Why was everything so complicated?

Unlocking her door she peeked out to check for Anna. 

Putting in her best princess face she slowly walked to her parents room hoping to find her mother. She knew mother stayed close in case of things like this. As a queen mother should have attended to other duties so Elsa appreciated how easily mother made time for her. Mother didn’t know how to help with her powers but mother should know what to do with a suitor.
Elsa gets a new kind of letter.
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