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[a_real_viking]

Living on a magically beautiful tropical island and having a dragon at his back, it was easy to feel immortal. It was easy to fly up close to the sun, lean forward to grin recklessly at Toothless, and laugh as he unhooked his leg from the pedal. They were so high up that the air almost felt cool, despite the cloudless sky and warm sun, and the wind

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[other_valentine]

When Hester saw Hiccup and Toothless flying, she stopped to watch. It still amazed her to see boy and creature moving as one, very much a part of a world that she had briefly tasted in a far clumsier airship. Behind her scarf, she smiled as they came in to land.

Then Hiccup stumbled on something in the sand, and he stood up, looking confused. He picked up a book that hadn't been there before. Curious, she came forward. "What have you found?" she asked.

[a_real_viking]

"This," Hiccup said, grinning, "is the Dragon Manual they made us read back home, learning to fight dragons."

He quickly found the page on Terrible Terrors. "Except that this needs a lot of correcting."

[other_valentine]

Hester frowned at Toothless thoughtfully, then looked over at Hiccup. "Starting with the fact that you don't fight dragons?" she asked.

[a_real_viking]

"Yeah, that's the biggest error we need to work on," Hiccup agreed, lightly crossing out yet another row of runes that said 'extremely dangerous, kill on sight.'

"We didn't know that, at the time."

[other_valentine]

"Why am I not surprised," muttered Hester darkly. But, a little curious, she decided there was a story here, and she wanted to hear it. "How did you learn better?"

[a_real_viking]

"I met him and realized that the way things were wasn't the way things had to be," Hiccup explained. "I realized that I could make friends with him instead."