Elsa did not quite understand what had happened. For once, she had allowed Jack to make their living area, only to find that he could not.

There were several failed shapes over the next few minutes, each one crumbling faster than the last. The funniest had probably been the latest which looked like an oversized igloo with a very long base, but each and every one of them was in the shape of a tower of some sort, and had the same "slide" in or around it.

"Are my palaces not fun enough for you" she said, a twinkle in her eye as she looked at the teenager, as he was starting to try again.

Jack stopped his motion halfway, turned around and looked at her.

"I am sorry, your majesty, it would seem that my structures are lacking something fundamental"

'Like the ability to stay standing,' she thought, an amused smile playing across her lips.

"Allow me" she looked him in the eye as she raised her hand, and a tower suddenly appeared beneath him, and continued to grow until he was quite high.

With a flick of her wrist, a slide slowly appeared around the tower and twisted its way down, and Jack rode it down to be face to face with her again.

"Awww, why did you do that? I wanted to do it!" Jack whined, and Elsa laughed.

"If I'd let you do it, we'd still be here waiting a week from now. See this as experience too – you can study the tower I've made and find out what's missing…" And she entered the tower.

Over the next couple of hours, she looked out the balcony on a couple of occasions, and saw him try to create even more towers – maybe it was a good thing he wasn't trying to create a palace after all.

She threw a snowball at the little imp she had created, before he could throw one at her, and put him in his "ice room", so that she could sleep peacefully.

She went to sleep with a smile on her face, remembering the amusing events of that day.