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[a_real_viking]

Around now, back on Berk, it would have been time to start harvesting whatever the rough earth had let them grow. It wouldn't have been much, a lot of small, scrubby plants, and none of them tasty, but it would have kept them alive, and that was always worth being thankful for. The affair would have been pretty plain, a slightly larger bonfire, a

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[other_valentine]

It was by coincidence that Hester was walking through the jungle when she spotted the campfire. Curiosity led her to it, and there stood Hiccup and Toothless.

Hester knew nothing of Hiccup's religion, and she was not very religious herself (apart from a few prayers spoken when death seemed imminent), but she knew a ritual when she saw one. She stood back and watched in respectful silence.

Still, when he was done, she couldn't resist chiding him a little. "Very nice," she said. "It still seems like bit of a waste of good fruit, though."

[a_real_viking]

"I figured seasonal fruit basket would get me in less trouble than freshly-killed goat, at least," Hiccup explained, adding another branch to the fire.

"We'd normally have a festival at home. Or, well, what passed for one here."

[other_valentine]

Hester nodded. "It is good to keep up with such things. If you have them."

[a_real_viking]

Hiccup laughed and shrugs before picking up a mango. "I don't really know if the gods are listening. It's, you know, just in case?"

[other_valentine]

Hester shrugged. "I don't know either. But sometimes I talk to them anyway. Occasionally it helps. Though I've found the gods tend to help those who help themselves."

[a_real_viking]

"Probably a good way to look at things," Hiccup agreed, passing Hester the fruit.

"How's the sword?"

[other_valentine]

She nodded at him. "It is a very fine sword. Thank you." She tilted her head at Toothless. "Have you flown more?"

[a_real_viking]

Hiccup broke into a wide grin and nodded then. "Pretty much every day."

[other_valentine]

Hester nodded. Beneath her scarf, she smiled. "Good."