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million_points_of_light2014-07-17 08:41 pm
axestrid) wrote in million_points_of_light2014-07-17 08:41 pm
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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.
"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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"That was a nice... clean... decapitation there. He sure is dead two times over. Good job." Astrid was way better at these things than Hiccup could ever hope to be. He was lucky if he could swing an axe on a good day, let alone actually hit anything without falling over first. He felt better having her as his travel buddy.
It wasn't that he didn't like the other teens in the village. It was more like... they weren't terribly dependable. Ever. Astrid was always there, though, and always willing to deal with the others and round them up if something happened to Hiccup. She was also willing to decapitate creepy zombie skeletons, so that was a plus. Oh, and she was really cute.
He finished gathering up the pieces of his dignity and started forward again, this time making sure he had his sword drawn against any other uninvited party-crashers. As they sneaked deeper into the cave, it didn't get any smaller, but it did get shinier. There were small puddles of water on the ground, tiny little bugs that flickered in strange colors. The lit up the cave in pieces, like a fractal. Every stone surface looked to have been carved by some god's hand to a beautiful crystalline surface.
"Wow," he whispered, unable to keep his comments to himself.