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"Honeymaren!" Ryder quickly ran up to his sister when we got there. She didn't hesitate and hugged him as well.

"I'm back." She said with a smile as they pulled away.

Right after that the other people started to notice the new face that joined us. What followed was a bunch of excited kids giving their beloved babysitter a group hug.

"Honeymaren!" They all exclaimed in unison before they began bombarding her with questions like is she okay, hurt or other varieties of that.

"I'm fine, thank you. All of you." She kneeled down to their level to give one of them a head pat with a smile.

"Great job on finding her." Elsa suddenly spoke up beside me, startling me a bit.

I laughed. "It's more like she found me actually." I told her, finally facing the person talking to me even though she herself was looking at the celebrating bunch's direction.

Elsa was smiling, but it didn't seem like she was happy. "Hey, we'll find your sister next. I'm sure of it." I told her.

After saying that she finally faced me, the same smile she had earlier didn't leave her face. "Thank you."

***

Since we already found Honeymaren, there wasn't any reason for us to split up. The only thing we had to do was find Queen Anna.

"We'll be going then." Elsa said as she waved them goodbye. "Be safe, we'll be right back before the sun sets." She added.

"You aren't taking the Nokk?" I asked.

"Well, I was thinking maybe I could try going around with Gale's help too." Elsa said with a shy smile. Gale seemed to like the idea since the wind twirled on her playfully.

"Wait really?" I looked at her surprised.

"I know Nokk is fast and all but I just thought with Gale's help it'll be faster than going by land." Elsa explained. "Though I will be needing your help trying to keep myself from falling."

I smiled widely and held out my hand. "Then just like last time, don't let go of my hand." I told her.

She looked at me, nodded then took my hand. Gale slowly picked us up and before we knew it we were flying.

"Where to fifth spirit?" I asked her.

"Down south, towards Arendelle. She couldn't have gone far if she went by foot. I already checked until Oaken's." She said. I felt her grip on my hand tighten.

"You heard her Gale, down south!" I said enthusiastically in hopes of making her feel less nervous.

I looked over to her direction to check how she was doing. She had a determined face, i was honestly expecting her looking really worried but I see that I was wrong.

Well, I do keep hearing that she's one strong woman, both she and her sister are. Man, what am I even here for?

"What? Is there something on my face? Is my hair super messy because of the wind?" Elsa asked, using her other hand to hold her hair.

"No, i-it's not that. You're just amazing actually." I stammered.

"Oh, uh thanks." Elsa said with a smile.

I looked away for a bit cause I could feel my cheeks starting to get hot. I tried to look at her again but I felt flustered at the thought of our eyes meeting. In the end I just looked at our intertwined hands.

"Hey Elsa." I called her.

"Yeah?" She answered.

"Where's your bracelet?" I asked. I just noticed now which was odd. I should've noticed earlier that my pendant wasn't glowing.

"Oh, I gave the crystal to Marshmallow." She said. "I was scared that something might happen to them again so just to make sure, I left one for someone in the castle." Elsa explained.

"Plus it might throw us off if both of our crystals glowed." She added.

"I see. That makes sense." I nodded.

"Hey Gale, set us down." I said and what followed surprised both me and Elsa.

I was expecting Gale to set us down gently but I guess I underestimated the wind spirit's playfulness. He's giving me a run for my money, and here I thought I was the mischievous one. Guess that makes two of us.

"I am so sorry I didn't think-"

I stopped talking when I noticed that Elsa was actually laughing as she emerged from the snow we landed on. This was a thick pile of snow and we made a pretty deep mark on where we fell. Man, Gale didn't even bother breaking our fall.

Elsa cleared her throat after her fit of laughter. "Sorry, you were saying?"

"I didn't think Gale would take me literally and set us down like that. Sorry." I apologized.

"No no, it's okay. I actually feel a little better now. Nothing like a fall that high to get myself from thinking about something else." Elsa explained. "Now I know how Anna felt when they were chased away by Marshmallow." She softly giggled once more.

"They fell from that high too?!" I looked at her surprised. These sisters are really something else.

"No, I don't that it was as high from what we fell from. I'm surprised we survived this fall at all." Elsa said with all honesty. I mean, anyone would be surprised.

"Maybe it's because we're spirits?" I suggested.

"Maybe, but that doesn't really make us invincible doesn't it?" Elsa said finally standing up from the snow.

"I guess." I said, following what she did and dusting off the snow.

For a moment I felt myself floating and then looked over to Elsa who was also being lifted up by the wind.

"Thank you." Elsa told Gale as we were being flown away from the hole marked by our fall.

"Oh now you help us from the fall." I muttered as we here set down gently. I felt a small breeze push me towards Elsa and I made a pushing gesture behind me as if that would help.

"So, why did you want to go down in the first place?" Elsa turned to me, making my whole body stiffen. I hope she didn't see my failed attempt on trying to shoo the wind away.

"Well." My voice cracked out of nervousness. I cleared my throat instantly. "Well, I was thinking you should be the one to have this." I said taking off the pendant.

"What? But it's yours, I already gave mine." Elsa said.

"We're looking for your sister, maybe it would be better if you were the one that had the thing that will lead us to her." I said handing the pendant to her. She looked at me and smiled.

"Thank you." She said putting it on. "I really do hope we'll find her sooner." Her smile slowly faded.

"I told Anna that when we're in trouble, we'll go through it together. I didn't think we'd be apart when trouble arrives." She examined the pendant. "I shouldn't have left Arendelle without telling her. I know how worried she can get, yet here I am."

I took her hand. "We'll find her. She knows you were worried, she probably thought there was trouble and tried to go to the Enchanted Forest knowing you needed help." I told her.

"Exactly, I should've told her I was okay and I just needed to check the forest because the Nokk went to me and... that would've worried her even more." Elsa let go of my hand to use both her hands to massage her temples. She began pacing back and forth.

"But I did tell her we'd go through it together, leaving her behind is like not asking for her help again but if I asked her to come with mw the people of Arendelle wouldn't have their queen with them and..." Elsa continued to ramble on as she now created a line of trail from all her pacing.

I simply watched her, not interrupting her train of thought since it seems she needed to let all of it out.

I was in the middle of watching and partially listening to what she was saying when I noticed the pendant slightly glowing.

"Elsa, stop moving." I told her, my voice sounding urgent.

"What?" She looked at me confused but stopped on her tracks anyway. The pendant lost its glow.

"Take a step to your left." I instructed her, she moved her feet. "Wait, no I mean my left." I said and then she did. The glow is slightly bigger.

"Take another step." I said, she looked at me with her confused expression not leaving her face. "You know what just walk to my left." I said.

Then she walked towards me, on my left side. The glow was fading.

"No no no, to my left then backwards." I explained.

"Jack I don't see the-" Elsa began talking but as she walked backwards she realized what I was trying to do. "-point of this." Her eyes landed on the now glowing pendant.

She looked at me excitedly.

I quickly flew over to her side, offered my hand and as soon as she took it we both took off.

"ANNA! IT'S ME ELSA! ARE YOU HERE?!" Elsa called out as we circled the area. As she looked around and kept calling for her, I kept my eyes on where we were flying to make sure we don't hit any trees or shrubs.

"ANNA!" Elsa called out once more.

"QUEEN ANNA!" I joined in.

Elsa looked over to her pendant and noticed that the glow wasnt changing at all. It was more or less the same amount.

"She must be in this area, let's go search a little more." Elsa said. I just nodded and continued to guide Elsa as we flew around.

"We could fly lower, maybe that'll help." I suggested. She nodded in agreement before returning to calling out for her sister.

For a few minutes it was just us yelling out Queen Anna's name multiple times and barely dodging the tree branches as we flew around. It was easier to dodge them earlier when we were higher up.

"Wait, I see something. Is that-"