WEEK 4

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Tadashi, Sophie, and Princess Anna are dead. By now, maybe you're realizing that this plays is way more dangerous than you have ever feared, but don't worry, maybe some hope will come along the way.

For example, if anyone tries to open the Conservatory Door leading outside starting this week, they'll find that they finally have access to the graveyard and outside. You are now freely able to leave the mansion whenever you want.

Maybe you can all finally leave this place...?

20 guests remain.]

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[terribibble]

[Oh, hell. He damn near drops his banjo. He fucked up, he fucked up.]

Oh -- oh Elsa I am so sorry, I didn't know --

[defyingfrigidity]

[On the contrary! While Elsa does look pretty torn up, as is to be expected, she also looks... a little relieved?]

No, you... you found something of hers... [Normally she'd ask before just up and grabbing something, but she can't help it. She picks up the dress, hands gripping the fabric so hard her knuckles are going bone-white.] I... I didn't have anything of hers prior to... to her death. But now I do...

Thank you.

[terribibble]

[Given that it belonged to her sister it is absolutely not rude of her to just up and grab it. She has more claim to it than anyone else in this house, after all. As she speaks his shoulders untense and then slump. Oh.]

Then -- then you take it.

Would it help you to... to talk about her? How she was before all this?

[Good things. Good memories. Bright like the skirt on that dress. That might help, right?]

[defyingfrigidity]

... I don't know.

[She knows it hurts to think about Anna. Every time she tries to think about good memories, her mind just keeps dragging back to the sight of her sister's body during the makeshift wake. So pale, so still...

But... talking should be a little better, right? Less chance of getting trapped in your head with someone else there.]

As much as I would gush about Anna, sometimes it's hard to really describe her. It's like talking about sunshine; no words can really do her justice.

[terribibble]

[Well. If anyone would know anything about getting trapped inside your own head, it's Fiddleford. He's not so great at dealing with it when it happens to him but maybe if it starts happening to her he'll be more useful.

He pats a spot on the floor next to him.]

Well... pick a story. Start there and just keep goin'.

[defyingfrigidity]

[Hm...]

There's just so much... but I suppose the biggest story is how Anna saved our entire kingdom from a mistake I made.

[Oooof course she'll prop Anna up while putting herself down...]

[terribibble]

[Oh. Ouch. He almost says 'are you sure you wouldn't want to tell a happier story' and stops himself. It's what she picked. It's clearly what she wants to tell.]

Well, we all -- I mean I'm sure even royalty makes mistakes. The important thing is it got put right, right? What happened.

[defyingfrigidity]

Oh yes, but it was all her. I fixed my mistake, but it was thanks to her showing me how I could. She was so brave... [A shadow of... something, it could barely even be called half a smile, crosses her face.] And stubborn and a little reckless. So reckless she jumped off a cliff several hundred feet high...

[terribibble]

Jesus. Why?

[Like. He's not wrong in thinking that absolutely should have killed her long before she showed up here, right?]

[defyingfrigidity]

Apparently it was the only way to outrun a monster that was chasing her. She said there was enough fresh snow at the bottom to break the fall.

[... She could add that the monster had been one she summoned, but she knew the othdrs were getting tired of how she's been putting herself down all week.]

[terribibble]

... Oh. Well I suppose that makes some sense then. If I had to pick between a monster and some snow I know which I'd choose.

[He'd have waffled at the edge until the thing caught up to him and bit his head off. It's fine.]

But you're not foolin' about her bein' brave.

[defyingfrigidity]

[That... that almost gets the shadow of a smile on Elsa's face. Almost.]

I could never exaggerate such a thing. With the greatest respect to them, I think Anna is braver than all of Arendelle's knights put together.

[She can absolutely understand why, but... none of them had come after her. It was all Anna.]

[terribibble]

[He wishes he could have got to know her better. He told himself after the very first week that he wouldn't let anyone else die that he couldn't properly remember, and now look. It's happened again. He has to get better about this.]

I could believe it. It's a family thing. Folks'll do things for their kin that no one else would.

[defyingfrigidity]

I can't agree more with that. Is there anything you wouldn't do for family?

[She can't even imagine putting herself before Anna. It's just... such a strange idea for her. The hell she put herself through for over a decade was all for her sister, and she'd gladly do it again if there was even a chance to bring Anna back...]

[terribibble]

[Well, he did say outright that he would be willing to die for his child in front of the entire trial. So... probably not, know. He wouldn't consider himself a brave man but family trumps fear.]

I don't reckon so. If any of my brothers or sisters -- I mean they'd do the same for me.

[Not that he's seen any of them in person since his wedding, but that doesn't mean he doesn't keep in touch. They'd be pretty mad at him if he didn't.]

[defyingfrigidity]

[Brothers and sisters... plural...?]

The way you say that... it sounds like you have a lot of siblings.

[terribibble]

Oh, sure. I'm third of eight.

[defyingfrigidity]

Eight?

[Yeah she is. Pretty shocked!]

That... that must have been quite an active childhood...

[terribibble]

[He laughs. It's a little wan, a little hoarse like he's not used to doing it, but it's genuine.]

That sure is one way to put it! Especially bein' older. Couldn't tell you whether lookin' after the pigs or the little'uns was more difficult. At least the pigs wouldn't sass you when you told them to do somethin'.