“I know it’s strange, but if you would be willing to follow me, I have several family portraits…Perhaps it will shake loose old memories?”
“It’s worth a try, I suppose,” Idun murmured, steeling herself. There was no point getting her hopes up. And could she really be a mother?
Elsa took a deep breath and bit her lip.
”This is going to sound strange…however, I think you might be my mother.”
“…What?”
The thought of a family had drifted through her mind a few times, but she’d pushed it away. What good was it trying to remember others if you couldn’t even remember yourself?
But then…
“Could I - could I really be…?”
An accident! Her mother had supposedly perished in a shipwreck.
“What do you remember?” The queen asked, perhaps she could help this woman piece together her missing past.
Thinking hard for a moment, Idun’s words were soft and slow when she finally spoke again.
“I remember my name. Arendelle must have been important - something made me want to return here. And - and your name gave me the same feeling. But now I’m here, it’s like deja vu.”
“Elsa. That, that was my mother’s name.”
Thats why she looked familiar..she looked like Elsa’s mother.
Was it possible that..?
“Where are you from?”
“Elsa?”
The name seemed so familiar. Something stirred inside her, in the same way the word ‘Arendelle’ had.
“Here…I think. I - I was in an accident. I’m still trying to remember everything.”
“If I may ask, what is your name?”
“Idun. That’s all I know. And…yourself?”
“I..I don’t know. I think I might know you. You look very familiar..”
“I could say the same. But…but I don’t know.”
“what about hide and seek?”
“Sounds good to me,” Idun said, smiling. “Hm, I’ll count, you hide.”
“Do you want to play Mama? I finished my lessons~” She grinned, almost ear to ear.
The Queen returned the smile, glad to see the happy face. “And what did you have in mind, darling?”
“Oh, oops. Well now I know! What are you up to Mama?”
“Just reading, dear.” She glanced at the basket at her feet. “And knitting earlier.”
“Like when you and Papa go to visit other countries?”
“Not quite,” she corrected. “Immigration and emigration involve living in a new country, not just visiting.”