The roof, Saturday morning earlyish

[abitlegless.livejournal.com]

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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[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"So do Pterodactyls. And certain kind of alligators in Florida," Dandelion said crossing her arms in defiance. "A dragon is just fantastical nonsense."

Though it's important to note that flying alligators is totally realistic.

[wrongkindofsith]

If you were a crazy person maybe.

"There's a dragon right in front of you! I rode it! Not dirty."

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

Dandelion... definitely not a poster-girl for sanity.

"People ride dinosaurs all the time!" Dandelion said waving her arms in the air. "Just look at Frank Slatestone! Saur-a-topia! That crappy first movie by George Lucas^*!"

Because she saw it on TV and therefore it's TRUE!

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^*Fred Flintsone, Dinotopia and The Phantom Menace meta-ly speaking.

[wrongkindofsith]

"...what?" No one had bothered to tell Cara about the concept of television yet. Or movies. Or... any form of modern mass media at all really.

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"And then they get married and they all have dino-babies," Dandelion said with a triumphant look.

She might have made that last bit up or... nah, she believed it.

[wrongkindofsith]

"Are you suggesting these people sleep with dragons?" There was Cara's horrifying mental image for today.

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"Nooooo! Dinosaurs!" Dandelion said shaking her head. "Sleeping with dragons would just be nuts."

[wrongkindofsith]

"But you're saying the dragon is a dinosaur." Following insane person logic made Cara's head hurt, and not in the fun way. "So sleeping with a dinosaur would be the same as sleeping with a dragon."

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"What are you insinuating?" Dandelion asked suspiciously. "Are you inferring that I'm some type of Viking?"

[wrongkindofsith]

"I don't know, are you?" Granted, her entire experience of vikings, namely Hiccup, led Cara to 'no', but if the other girl was going to put that out there...

[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

Dandelion gasped in horror! The horror!

"I AM NOT A F*%#ING VIKING!"

[wrongkindofsith]

Now that horror was just blood in water to a rather cranky shark, and she didn't have Richard or Kahlan around to tell her to play nice.

"I understand if it's something you're ashamed of."