When she is asked this question, Elsa’s reaction varies from confused to shocked to, in the case of Anna, to confused to frightened. She knows that the word “magic” has become a somewhat ambiguous, confusing and somewhat taboo word when it comes to her family, but that does not necessarily mean that she does not understand it completely. The thing about magic that is most difficult for her to understand is that it is not something that a person can do. It is not some sort of mystical force that can be invoked to a person’s will, but rather something that someone in the physical world can create in order to do things they cannot otherwise accomplish through their own will.
She wonders how she feels about using her magic when Anna says that her magic makes her feel alive. Elsa is not familiar with the idea of using magic, though she knows that Anna would probably ask her about it, and she says with reluctance that she has heard from others that she sometimes gets glimpses of her power but doesn’t know what it actually is, like flashes of something but not a clear idea of what it truly is or where it comes from.
Later that night, when Anna arrives home from the library, Elsa sits down at the table and begins to tell her about some things that had happened the night before and the night after and how she had thought the day before would feel different, but this has not in fact happened. She goes on to explain that she had been in the basement of the library when the snow had started to fall. She had thought it would fall more heavily and that there would be more snow, but that never happened. She had been in the basement when she had imagined that her powers were becoming stronger, but then the powers had faded and she had felt cold. She says that she had felt like a woman in an oppressive environment and that her whole body had felt heavy. It turns out that Anna had been in the library at the same time that Elsa had been there, and she told her the same story. But instead of her seeing Elsa in another dimension or seeing a different Elsa, Anna saw the other Elsa. They told themselves that they were seeing different versions of Elsa, and that their powers were going from strength to strength.
Elsa has to admit that these stories are ridiculous.
As they spoke on the telephone later that day, Elsa started to worry that Anna was going to talk to something she had forgotten, especially since Anna was usually very polite. As the telephone rings, Elsa tells herself that what
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