There's a boy and his horse, a boy and his dog, and then-- boy and his dragon. They all have one thing in common: boys and animals. It's the age old tale of that first special friendship. You know, that'll later be followed up by the Old Yeller version of the story
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She'd just been trying to protect Morrigan, surely.
The dragon is the thing that has Morrigan interested. Dragons are not things to be tamed, and one could never be sure whether some dragon would truly end up to be a dragon in the end of things.
She lingers on the edge of the inlet, staff in hand. She's still heavily pregnant, and still wearing the robes that she donned when she was not with child.
Sunlight and joy, pah. Such things never lasted.
Still, she's watching -- perhaps with something akin to jealousy. She finds herself unable to think of a time when she'd been happy like that, especially as a child.
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So when the heavy lady on the hill is watching and making frowny faces, he notices. And when he notices, he goes to investigate.
Without warning Hiccup, who is dumped unceremoniously on his back when his chair leaves him behind.
"T--toothless! What gives?" Oh, hey. Somebody's over there. The boy hobbles to his feet, and his gait after the dragon is clumsy, but -- hey, it's not the best fake foot in the world but it works.
Toothless prances over not unlike a proud cat, and only looks at Morrigan before yacking up a half-eaten fish. She's pregnant, so she better eawt something tasty, in the dragon's estimation. Go on! Tasty fish!
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Then it vomits up a fish at her feet. The face that Morrigan pulls is certainly disgusted. It is only worsened by the fact that this cat-like dragon reminds her vaguely of the Hero of Ferelden's mabari, and that brings all sorts of unpleasant associations back up.
"That," she declares to the creature, "Is disgusting. Do you always act like a dog, and not a proper dragon?" Because really. She's fought barely-hatched dragonlings that were more intimidating than this ... thing.
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He snaps up his fish, and waits for Hiccup.
"Oh, I'm sorry! He's just-- trying be friendly!" He puts a hand on the dragon, giving her an awkward smile. See? They're so much cute that it may be toxic to Morrigan.
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"He~y. Whatcha drawin'?" he asks, as he approaches. The foot thing doesn't so much bother him, really.
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Hiccup looks up at Lea as he sketches the layout of the inlet, and the great, black lump that is Hiccup looks up too. The layabout dragon doesn't gauge Lea t be a threat, so goes back to gorging on fish, while Hiccup sits up a little straighter.
"Just the trees," he says, shifting. "Not much else out here beyond them and the sea."
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"That works," Lea says cheerfully.
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"...yeah. I'm Hiccup," he gestures to the dragon, "and this is Toothless."
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So encountering one on her morning constitutional instantly makes her squeak in alarm. You're slightly Deadite-ish there, Toothless. She'll be stepping back and staring at you curiously for awhile.
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