[It wasn't what Anna said that stopped Elsa. She had a knack for sometimes letting those words slide in one ear and out the other when her nerves were hitting. It was the physical contact from one of the few people in the world she could let herself be close to, who she could trust. The hand on her cheek caused her to first freeze, and then to begin to melt.

She reached out to the hand and closed her eyes. She could believe that. There was incredible magic at work here. Beyond anything she had at her disposal. This was too great even for her. It could not be her.]

I do not trust them, but I trust you. If you say I have lost nothing, then I will believe it or now, Anna [She laughed once.] And apparently at least not everything is horrible.

The boy waited three years to propose? I must have terrified the fear of god into that lad.