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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]

Hiccup had come to the same conclusion. When he'd found the unmistakable silhouette of a Timberjack, he'd gotten excited. Toothless didn't quite understand what the big hubbub was about, but Hiccup was nearly breathless when he met up with Astrid again.

"Yes! Isn't it amazing?" He came to look at the wall beside her, his own torchlight illuminating another etching of a Whispering Death. This one was bigger, though. It had a different shape. He tilted his head, studying it for a moment, and then glanced back at Astrid.

"These drawings don't look familiar. I thought maybe they were left here by Bork the Bold, but they're nothing like what he put in the Book of Dragons." Somewhere close by, Toothless chuffed up a cloud of dust, making Hiccup frown. "I know, bud, but we can't leave right now." Not with the thunderstorm still raging outside, and definitely not when there were dragon researchers to... uh, research.