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Library, Saturday

Once again, the library seemed to be behaving itself for Elsa when she came in for her shift, though she couldn't help but notice that all of the books for her to return today had the came caption on them; The Movie Novelization.

There was a Space Battles novel adaptation of the movies, and one for Death In A Fence, and another one featuring a leather-clad biker skeleton with his head on fire on the cover. Elsa was starting to get suspicious when she put away a few of the yellow For Dummies books that were claiming to be novelizations. She was only a little twitchy when a cookbook claimed to be the same. But she was determined to get throu-

"I know the Barry Plodder novels came before the movies!"

Look, Elsa had a low tolerance for absolute nonsense. She was drawing the line, here.

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"Can I ask you a question? Why can't you fucking tell her what happened?" Barry asked. "She'd probably understand better if you told her about it. It was an accident. She'd understand, don't you think?"

"She didn't forget on her own," Elsa noted, frowning. "The troll that saved her life specifically took that memory away from her, for her own safety. And all of her other memories about my having powers, too. If I thought it was safe to tell her about it, believe me Barry, I would have. Her, and the servants back home. Maybe even the entire kingdom. Wouldn't that be nice, not having to live half of my life in hiding from the people I'm going to be ruling someday?"

She was scowling down at the pizza, now. Poor thing. It hadn't even done anything to upset her, either.

"It's not that I'm afraid she won't understand, Barry. It's that I'm afraid that knowing might undo whatever it is they did that saved her, back then. She's still got the white in her hair from where I hit her. How can I be sure that doesn't mean there's still a little bit of magic in there that could do horrible things to her if I... I set it off somehow?"

... There was a lot of childhood trauma happening here. For the record.

Barry let out a heavy sigh. Figures she would ask the one question Barry couldn't fucking answer.

Fucking magic.

"I have no fucking clue," Barry said frowning. Mostly because he hated saying he didn't know the answer. "Maybe the trolls would know? Shit. I don't know. I'd never thought I'd have to ask a fucking troll anything."

"They might know," Elsa agreed, sighing and looking downward. "It was their magic that saved her. I haven't seen them in so long... I would have to find the book my father kept, I wouldn't know how to find them otherwise."

That wasn't an 'I'm not willing to look,' it should be noted.

"Next time you go home I could take a look around," Barry offered helpfully. "You don't have to do this alone, you know."

"Home," Elsa echoed, smiling faintly. "Honestly, I was half starting to wonder if maybe I could just run away to Antarctica, instead."

No Anna, no trolls, nobody to accidentally freeze...

"But I suppose asking the trolls probably would be the more reasonable option. Are you sure you want to talk to them?"

"Well. Fuck. I guess?" Barry said with a little sigh. "I don't know. It's all magic but asking questions about what could happen I could probably handle. I won't understand the logic probably and it'll bug the shit out of me but fuck it. Got to start someplace, right?"

"It does sound better than running around in circles," Elsa agreed. "I haven't really thought about going back to speak to them since I was little. I remember being terrified, at the time. Not of the trolls themselves, but..."

She frowned a little.

"The one who saved Anna's life showed me visions of... not what would happen to her, but what might happen to me. It's hard not to think about that, when I hide from everyone else. Maybe not all of my solitude is for Anna's sake."

Really, who thought that showing an eight year old a vision of herself being ripped apart by an angry mob would encourage her to be less afraid? Honestly?

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