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THE PROTECTION OF A FRIEND
I watched the Vikings land on their dragons. I saw one of them glance toward my hiding place and for a fraction of a second I looked into his eyes. Green eyes. With that one look I knew everything he had known, did know, or would know. I almost gasped...so much pain...how would he ever bear it?
I shook my head. No. I told myself. No more additions to this curse. But as I watched them, bickering, oblivious, young, honest, how could I not help them? How could I not save them from their own ignorance? How could I not train them in the way they needed?
They need me. All of them.
I tilted my head towards them and caught a short, stocky, grumpy one...Snotlout? Isn't that his name?...say to the blond athletic one...Astrid. Her the green-eyed one knows quite well..."I don't know about you, but I like whiny Berk Hiccup a lot better than princess Outpost Hiccup." Astrid responded with, "I know, right?" Before turning and giving Hiccup a thumbs-up, so Snotlout wouldn't see her.
I almost laughed. Almost.
The black dragon, Toothless I think, turned and stared at me. I knew he couldn't see me, but I did know he could smell me.
Darn dragons' sense of smell.
He turned away, and I breathed easy again. I stayed on the rock for a long time, watching them all slowly fall asleep. When they all were off in dreamland, I descended and went of to find my friends. The Night Terror pack. I whispered them awake. Told them that there were intruders. I told them to scare the blond male.
As I went back to my rock, I noticed a chicken had somehow got onto the island and was roaming about the woods. But I thought nothing of it.
I settled back to watch the Vikings sleep.
Let your training begin, Dragon Riders. Let it begin, let it begin, let it begin...