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[axestrid]

Characters: Hiccup and Astrid


"Hiccup, I think we're lost."

Astrid banked Stormfly hard to the left and sort of circled Hiccup and Toothless, shading her eyes to scan through the smazy fog that clung to the air above the water.

"None of these rock formations look familiar," she said, a little worried. "Are any of them on your maps?"

She enjoyed these flights of fancy, as it were, with Hiccup, but she didn't so much like getting lost, especially when the sun wouldn't be up but a few more hours. She was confident the dragons would be able to get back to Berk--they had a pretty reliable sense of direction, it seemed--but she wasn't too keen on the idea of being somewhere unfamiliar and so far from home after dark.

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[gestured]

"What?" By his estimates, they were only ten clicks north of-- wait. He checked the map he'd scrawled in his notebook, then the position of the slowly setting sun. Somehow, they'd gotten oriented... south by southwest, and that was basically the opposite of what they wanted. He shot an accusatory look down at his dragon, though he knew it was probably his own fault for getting distracted. He always got kind of distracted when Astrid was around.

"Hold on." He checked his map again. "Looks like we got turned around somehow. Let me see where we really are. If we've actually been going southwest this whole time, then..." His finger trailed off the page. He flipped it, and the wide blank space greeting him confirmed exactly what his visual memory told him: he'd never been out this far before. "Uh, we're... not lost. We're definitely not lost. We're just-- exploring in a new direction!" He gave his best grin, but it quickly faded when he noticed a thick line of thunderclouds on the horizon. If they were supposed to go back towards Berk, they'd have to fly through those. And that was definitely not an option.

He called out to Astrid and Stormfly. "I'm not going to suggest we rough it out on the nearest rock 'til the storm's gone, but we should rough it out on the nearest rock 'til the storm's gone!" Toothless murred in response, not a fan of thunderstorms in general; there was a reason dragons didn't usually raid when there was thunder and lightning and rain going on. Bzzt.