Anna sighed. A whole week. 7 days since Elsa thawed the fjord and put the kingdom back to normal. Anna slid down the hall and was about to knock on Elsa's door, but thought better of it. She started to walk away when Elsa's door swung open.

Elsa walked out in a long purple dress like the one at her coronation, with her hair in a bun-braid, and… no gloves. Her sleeves were long and the ends were embroidered with white roses. She closed the door and walked down the hall to Anna's room. Anna herself was hiding behind a pillar. She wasn't sure why but she didn't want her sister to find her just waiting at her door.

Elsa also looked like she was about to knock on Anna's door. She stopped just before her knuckled hit the wood.

"Maybe she's still asleep" Anna heard Elsa mutter.

Elsa began walking back towards the dining room. Anna pushed back against the wall to avoid being seen.

As Elsa rounded he corner, Anna came out from where she was hiding. "She was going to knock on my door?" she thought to herself.

Anna walked down to have breakfast and sat on Elsa's left while the Queen was at the head of the table. The food was delicious as always, waffles, sausage, eggs and orange juice. Both girls put as much chocolate syrup as they were allowed onto their food, and as they were midway through their meal, Kaye the butler came in with letters for the Queen.

"Thank you," said Elsa as she took the mail "anything of note?"

"There has been a letter from King Alexander of the West," said Kaye.

"Really?" said Elsa shuffling through to find the right envelope.

Anna saw her sister's eyes dart back and forth reading the contents of the letter in less than a minute.

"I have to go," she said.

"But Elsa you haven't even finished your food," protested Anna.

"Sorry, I just have to respond to these," Elsa said as a quick excuse, but added "we can still go sledding this afternoon with Kristoff if you want."

"Okay, I'll see you later," said Anna, but not too disappointed. She was used to it after 13 years.

Elsa went back to her room, sat at her desk and let a steady stream of ice slide across the surface. She noticed what was happening and sat up. Close your eyes. Breathe. Let go.

She opened her eyes and made the ice disappear. She read over the letter again. It was from her cousin, well second cousin. He was her mother's sister's son. He was the king of the Western lands. He was married to a lovely girl named Mia. At least Elsa had heard she was lovely. She and Alexander had played a little when they were very small, but after Elsa's accident, her mother had only received letters here and there. Alexander and his mother had come to the funeral for the King and Queen of Arendelle, but since then there had been no real communication between the two families.

Now since Alexander had to miss the coronation due to a drought in the kingdom, he writes that he, Mia and her younger brother Friedrich would be visiting that week. Elsa had just beginning to get the hang of running the kingdom. Now she had visitors who were very experienced coming over. She was trying to be a little more optimistic these days, and not think of the criticism he might have.

"Maybe he'll have some good advice," she muttered out loud.

She began writing out a letter that of coarse she and Anna would be happy to see their distant cousins. She closed the paper and sealed it with a navy blue wax and for a final touch, engraved a snowflake onto it. The then placed it on her "out" side. Elsa then began drafting a copy of supplies for a ball that would be held in honor of Alexander his family.

Elsa was nervous about them coming because of the brother. She knew everyone would be wanting them to marry. The same thing happened with Alex and Mia. Both of their lands wanted them to wed, and they actually did fall in love with each other. But this was not always the case. So the Queen made a resolution to be civil, maybe even friendly, but she did not want to accept defeat. When she married, and she would marry, she would only marry someone who could love her as much as Kristoff loved Anna.

Elsa then turned her attention to the stack of other letters. Not a large stack, but enough to make her sigh and hope she would be able to go sledding.

Since the gates were opened, and since children were not easy to turn out of the courtyard, there was more often than not, a few little ones running through the yard, which was right were Elsa's window looked. She took a second to laugh at the thought of children being so silly, and turned her head, hunched her shoulders and began to write about taxes, trade, treaties, and snowflakes.