To Anna, it seemed simple enough on paper: answer the summons, appear before the king's court, tell the truth as best as she remembered it, go back home, and never visit the Southern Isles again. But, of course, a princess is only as good as the challenges she can meet. And with a sorceress as its queen, Arendelle may be in for several.

His brothers may have stopped pretending that he was invisible, but some days Hans can't quite be sure. A series of related incidents, past to post-movie. (Or, "In which several questions about the childhood of a certain prince are answered, and many more are asked.")

All grief, Thranduil knows, is the same at the bottom: but he also knows that it is lived in very different ways. He will have to wait and see how Tauriel bears hers.

Tauriel finds her king in the treasure hall of Erebor with a box full of white gems in his hands. They are more alike than she thinks, but perhaps it has always been that way.

When first they meet, Tauriel mistakes her king for a ghost: not that she's entirely wrong, of course, but the beginning of her history with Thranduil is not exactly a warm memory. (Thranduil may think otherwise, but naturally that is something she will never ask him.)