arendelleslostqueen:

       ”Idun, please.”

        The elder twin’s voice was almost pleading as she listened to her sister speak. With a sharp sigh, Anesa wrapped her arms around herself, almost as if she were hugging herself. God know that was something she needed at the moment. She hated the things she was saying, what she was doing making her best friend in world leave her alone in a place that was still so foreign to her. 

       Her sister’s tone did bother her a bit. Bitter, vindictive, frivouous. She knew her siser was upset by this unexpected turn of events, but still… Anesa’s pleading tone turned to one that was more haughty, ”For one thing, He’s kind to me. He’s good to me Idun, how many women in my situation can say that? I’ve come to love him.  Also they’re expecting things of me, Idun. I’m a married woman.”

      Shaking her head, Anesa took a step forward. she didn’t like fighting with her sister.And honestly, Anesa still felt like she needed her sister more than ever. Anesa didn’t want to be left alone. but it was unreasonable to think that Idun would stay with her forever. Through Idun’s own life, and her husband’s opinion it just wasn’t meant to be. The best she could do was follow her husband’s suggestion, along with the council’s, and send her beloved other half home and hope she could come and visit again once some things are sorted out.

      “I’m sorry. I’m just… Idun, since my father in law passed after the wedding. Things are going faster than usual…” Her tone fell low again, god she didn’t even want to look at her sister. “Before the wedding Mama explained a lot of things to be about a queen’s duty. One is to her husband, and two is to her people, so she must give an heir to the kingdom. They’re expecting a child out of me " Unwittingly, her voice cracked of so slightly.

    “They say you’re distracting me from my husband, and my queenly duties. It’s been six months, they’re wondering why I haven’t conceived yet.”

   "Don’t talk to me as if I’m a child, Anesa, I’m just as old as you,“ Idun replied, wrinkling her nose at her twin’s tone. Just because she was married didn’t mean she was suddenly grown up and worldly. "Every man wants a child, and yet no man seems to understand that these things can take time. Mama didn’t conceive us until she was well past a year into marriage. She told me so. You’ll have the child. But you know what can happen when a woman becomes too stressed–it’s not me interfering with such goings on, it’s them pressuring you.”

   No matter what Anesa said, that man could claim to love her all he liked, Idun wouldn’t believe it until he actually supported her. Until he sided with his wife, not his royal council. She didn’t like the idea of leaving her sister behind with no one on her side, no one to stick up for her. Not that Idun was particularly good at confrontation, but at least the elder could lean on her.

   Their Mama and Papa would no doubt have several ideas lined up for her when she got home. Men to order her about as Anesa’s husband did her. Men who would no doubt put up with her so long as she provided children. It wasn’t an experience she wanted, but what choice did she have? There was nothing else for a Princess–wife and mother or spinster.

   "When am I to be sent home?“ she asked quietly, taking a seat, hands curling up in her lap. She knew that if the King wished to send her back, and Anesa was siding with him, there was little point in arguing it. It was just a case of when. When she would have to say goodbye to her twin. "Will you help me pack?”