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[toothpicc]

[GODS how do you use this thing? Hiccup will be pushing buttons and every now and then there's a short 'Wow', or 'Well that didn't work.' or... various other mildly frustrated phrases and then finally.]

Okay... so I push this and... tilt it like. Oh! Hey, I think it's working. If that... green light thing means what I think it means.

Okay! So. ... Everyone. I guess. [Man, how's he going to put this? He'll speak slowly, it's obvious he's double thinking this. Enjoy the elaborate hand gestures as he tries to describe his sentences.]

I haaave a question for you.

[More hesitation and some minor background noise since no one responds right away.]

I guess I should just come out and say it then, huh?

Right um. So how does everyone feel aboooouuut dragons?

Not that. You know, it's a big deal or something to be worried about or anything. Just... a general question of curiosity. Right. [Not suspicious, nope. NOPE.]

I'll just... hope somebody actually heard that.

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[toothpicc]

But okay. Say on the off chance yoooouuuu ... met a friendly one?

[woahwoahawkward]

...well, that's never happened.

[Alistair rubs his neck. Hiccup, just tell him that it's like a big scaly mabari and he'll be fine with it.]

[toothpicc]

[Tell him what a mabari is first okay okay.]

But if it did happen! Hypothetically speaking. Of course.

[woahwoahawkward]

[Okay good.]

...right, well. I suppose if it didn't try to attack me -- or anyone else, mind you -- then it might be ... all right, so long as it's smaller than the dragons I have seen.

[toothpicc]

Um. Maaaybe? How big are the dragons you've seen..? Just for, you know. Comparisons.

[woahwoahawkward]

Full grown, or drakes?

[Because the drakes are kind of like little ponies.]

The full-grown ones are bigger than some castle towers.

[toothpicc]

Castle towers? [Never seen one but he can imagine it well enough...] Ummmm... all right. Ours are smaller. Definitely smaller. Much smaller.

[woahwoahawkward]

[So he does have dragons.]

...well, then it might not be so bad as long as it doesn't grow up to maul people and try to chomp you in half.

[toothpicc]

I think our dragons -- Berk's dragons, I mean -- and yours are pretty different. Sure there are some pretty big ones as big as a mountain but there's also some that are pretty small. I guess no bigger than a cat... maybe? Oh! And those are fully grown too. It just uh, depends on the kind of dragon.

[woahwoahawkward]

...well, I suppose that makes sense.

[Alistair's still pretty skeptical about cat-sized dragons though, really.]

[toothpicc]

Yep! See? So... not soooo bad, right?

[woahwoahawkward]

I suppose it could have its advantages.