The roof, Saturday morning earlyish

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It was quiet on the roof this morning. The plants waved gently in the breeze and all was peaceful.

Until it was buzzed by a boy on a dragon.

They circled the dorms once, twice, three times before Toothless backwinged for a landing, dropping neatly onto the roof. Toothless' bright red prosthetic tailfin wasn't responding as well as it should, and this was a handy place to stop and check it out.

Hiccup was grinning, but then he always was after a flight. He unclipped his safety strap, swung his leg over and slid down, then paused, looking out over Fandom. It was both like and unlike Berk: tiny island, lots of buildings, taller in the middle than it was at the edges. Had its share of crazy people.

Toothless nudged him, making an impatient, demanding rumble, then pointed his nose at the harness. "All right, buddy," Hiccup said, turning back to the dragon. "Let's see if we can figure out what's making it stick."

[OOC: Open wheeee!]

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[wrongkindofsith]

It was a good thing Cara's personal space issues only had to do with gestures of affection then.

She curled her arms around Hiccup's waist. "Too tight?"

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He shook his head and curled his fingers into the front of the saddle. "Hang on!"

And Toothless's wings began to slice through the air, fast enough to make it whine as he lifted away from the trees, arcing upwards, going faster and faster every second until they tore through the clouds.

[wrongkindofsith]

The only time Cara had gone anything close to this fast had been when Darken Rahl had changed her and her sisters into birds to search for Richard, and even that had nothing on this.

She laughed as they passed though a cloud. "They're like fog!"

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And Hiccup couldn't help but laugh with her, because he lived for this. "Everything is different when you see it from up here!"

Toothless sped up, flying high above the clouds, and began to curve slightly to take them back the way they'd come.

[wrongkindofsith]

"Everything's so small, but you can see so much more of it." The babbling would be blamed on oxygen deprivation later.

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Hiccup smiled as Toothless slid back through the clouds, slowing slightly, but still the island was rapidly growing larger. "You can see the whole world. It changes how you look at things."

[wrongkindofsith]

"And you can do this whenever you want." That would be unguarded wonder in her voice there, there was a decent chance you'd not hear it again.

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"Yeah." Hiccup glanced over his shoulder, smiling warmly at her reaction and more than a bit pleased with himself, then faced forward once more. As Toothless sunk lower in the sky, lining up with the roof of the dorm as they crossed the Preserve, he added, "So can you, if you want to. Just let me know, and you can come with us."

[wrongkindofsith]

If he'd suggested that after she'd had a chance to come down, both figuratively and literally, Cara's reply would likely have been much more stoic and less enthusiastic. As it was... "I'd like that."

For her that was squeefulness incarnate.

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Hiccup grinned and Toothless rolled one amused eye back to look at him as the dragon beat his wings once, twice, then glided to a perfect landing right in the centre of the roof. "And here we are, back on the roof safe and sound."

[wrongkindofsith]

"That was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen," Cara said as she dismounted, not quite able to quell the smile on her face.

The night wisps were still in top position though.