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[ladenga]

Are you sure about this, mun? Even now you seem a little unsure about having me around.

[Things don't instantly change. Elsa crosses her arms in front of her]

I'm not going back to hiding anymore. I can't hurt Anna. And Arendelle's summer is in full swing. There's nothing to worry about.

[Except for when you slip back to thinking like before. A small patch of black ice appears in the corner. Elsa shakes her head and takes a deep breath and the black ice disappears]

See? Nothing to worry about.

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[ladenga]

Elsa of Arendelle. I'm not familiar with Gallifrey. Where is that?

[almightysound]

Far away, the precise details of which are of little importance.

[He pauses for a moment, considering.]

Cyrokinesis.

[ladenga]

[Her brows furrow]

Cryokinesis?

[That means there were others like her if there was a name for it]

There's others? Others that have powers like me?

[almightysound]

[His lips quirk into what might pass for a smile.]

As the Bard very wisely said--there are more powers in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

[ladenga]

And you've seen them? Where are they? What are they like?

[Did they had to learn on their own too?]

[almightysound]

Your choice of word--powers. Implying that others where you hail from, this 'Arendelle,' don't share your particular talents. It's tricky to define what makes an individual extraordinary, on the rare occasions when such things are true. Bats navigate in the dark--amazing for us, commonplace for them.

But yes, such cases like yours are...scattered.

[ladenga]

But you've seen them. There aren't any that are like me in Arendelle.

[She hopes for it to be true.]

[almightysound]

Not precisely your control of sub-zero temperatures. But similar.

[ladenga]

Could you please tell me, then, Koschei of Gallifrey, where you've seen those similar?

[Now that the gates are open, she could invite them to share their knowledge]

Do you have this power as well?

[almightysound]

I...hm.

Your hand, if you please. I shan't harm you.

[ladenga]

[She hesitates. Touching people other than Anna still is strange. Elsa then offers her hand. She had control of her powers now. She couldn't hurt anyone anymore.]

[almightysound]

[He recognizes her apprehension. Koschei takes her hand gently--moreso than he usually does, at any rate. Quick and businesslike, he presses Elsa's fingertips against the left side of his chest, so she feels his heart.

And then shifts it to the right, so she can feel the beat of his other heart. He lets her hand drop.]

[ladenga]

[She almost pulls away when he moves her hand to feel his heart. A heart. That was entirely normal, right? But then he moves her hand again. Her eyes widen when she feels another heartbeat in his chest. When he lets her hand go, Elsa immediately withdraws her hand]

...What are you?

[almightysound]

Time Lord.

[He turns for a moment, tilting his head upwards. Koschei scans the ceiling for around five, maybe ten seconds, considering the turn of the universe, the angles of the planets and stars. He points at around a seventy degree angle.]

Gallifrey is ten million light-years that way. Past the stars.

[ladenga]

[She looks up when he looks up, then back at him.]

You see the stars without aid.

[It isn't a question. It's a statement of wonder]

[almightysound]

No. I recall the position they were in when I last saw them, calculate the trajectory and time passed, and determine where they currently are.

[He suddenly looks quite smug.]

I'm rather a genius, to be frank.

[ladenga]

Or very studious.

[There's a very small quirk to her own lips]

[almightysound]

Can't be one without the other. As I'm sure you know, Your Majesty.

[ladenga]

I've read on so many different creatures and yet I have not come across any with two hearts.

[What was it like on Gallifrey, then?]

Are others in Gallifrey like you?

[almightysound]

Hm? Oh, yes. Time Lords have two hearts; it's more convenient than a single vascular system. Honestly, I don't know how how you lot survive with just the one.

On Gallifrey. Not in. Gallifrey is a planet; not a kingdom.

[ladenga]

Wouldn't two be too much for one body as your stature is that like ours?

[Gallifrey was beyond the stars, as he had shown earlier.]

Then what kingdom on Gallifrey do you hail from?

[almightysound]

Hardly. Increased stamina, faster healing, less need for sleep. And that's operating under your assumption that our bodies are similar in ways other than mere appearances.

Gallifrey has no kingdoms. Just Gallifrey. Just the Time Lords. [well and the savages who live outside the walls, but who cares about them.]

[ladenga]

No kingdoms? Then who takes care of Gallifrey? Oversees the trades, the people?

[She wishes she has her books so that she could add the details he speaks of to her collection of stories about strange creatures]

[almightysound]

The landscape of Gallifrey oscillates between vast cities and expanses of empty wilderness, with no middle ground, as it were. Virtually every Time Lord who has ever lived is a dusty bureaucrat content to spend their days discovering new flavors of boredom.

I don't care.

[ladenga]

And is that why you travel so far then?