Light in the Darkness

Note: This is an Elsanna AU inspired by a headcanon from elsannafervor.

As the rosy fingers of the sunset melt away to ashen dusk, the wild-haired lads and lasses of the villages cease their play. They have done battle with the dragons of their fancy and, in their yards, sought treasures stashed by pirates as opulent as the wealth of any shah. Now their limbs are tired and, at their mothers’ calls, they all come traipsing homeward, knowing that warm beds await them there.

One by one, the lights that glow in every window dim and die down. Dusk gives way to darkness and the world is still.

The world is still… and Elsa is all but alone.

For it is she who sweeps across the firmament at nightfall. She is the nightfall, in fact, swathing the world in shadow so that those below might snuggle down and sleep.

It pains her to cast darkness on the bright face of the sky. Anna, the sky goddess is called, and Elsa knows well how vibrantly she shines in daylight, her azure hues like a shimmering sea in the heavens.

One time, she weeps to think of it, showering the cottages… meadows… forests… with her tears.

“Why are you crying?”

The voice that speaks is almost childlike in its innocence and energy. It is a voice that holds in it all the yawps of schoolboys, all the hollering of happy grandfathers and grandmothers, all the joyous spirit of day.

It is Anna’s voice.

“I’m crying,” Elsa chokes out, “because you are so beautiful… and I do nothing but mar that beauty with gloom.”

Anna giggles.

“Mar me? Oh, Elsa, don’t be so hard on yourself. What you do is beautiful. Why, I consider it an honor, each night, to wear your flowing cloak of velvet and blue. I especially love the way it glimmers, studded all over with the twinkle of stars!”

Elsa swallows. “Do you mean it?”

“Of course I do, silly!” Anna assures her. “It’s beautiful! And… so are you.” And Anna pulls her close.

On her lonely vigils, Elsa has seen dear couples entwined like this in beds. This must be what they feel like, she muses as she and Anna snuggle together, wrapped in Elsa’s own marvelous, flowing cloak…

