"Ugh... gods... ow..." Cami woke up with a stinging agony that went from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet. She tensed as she touched the cut on her left temple where the pipe had hit her, which was leaking a thin line of blood down her left cheek to the left side of her neck. Once her vision cleared, she realised that she was in a cage just tall enough for her to stand up it.

It was placed on the rocks at the edge of a tide pool, with the waves lightly scraping the side of the rock. She sighed as she slumped against the back of the cage, trying her best not to touch her injured head before she remembered something else. "Oh, gods! Ruff!"

"Oh, I wouldn't worry about her." a voice snarked from the shadows, Cami squinting a bit to see Eryna stepping into the light. "Ruff's stored in a... well, a safe place, for lack of a better word... it's yourself you should be worried about."

"Eryna? Oh, come on, I thought you were cool, for Thor's sake! You're in cahoots with your mom?!"

"Cahoots? Oh, good grief, no... ha ha... did you not see the invitation letter she sent...?" Eryna chuckled to herself. "See, I take after my father in many ways, Cami... one's my handwriting. Look, Mum doesn't know about any of this. All I needed was her name... for... legitimacy..."

"To sell out your own brother?! What the Hel is wrong with you?!"

"Pah! Don't treat me like the bad guy here, Cami! I told you everything!" Eryna snapped as she clenched one of her fists. "You're an only child, I know you are! Because you have no idea what it's like to not be the favourite!

"Not be the favou... oh, are you frickin' kidding me! Is that what you're doing this for?!"

"Of course not. Well, I suppose it partially is... ha ha... but you read about the debts, didn't you...?"

"Uh-huh..." Cami shrugged, keeping a scowl on her face but sneaking in a bitter laugh as she said "guess you weren't kidding when you said you were quite the gambler, huh?"

"Ah ha ha ha... oh, clever girl!" Eryna clapped her hands quickly and theatrically. "So... you can see where the story went from there, can't you?"

"Well... I'm guessing you played too much Maces and Talons, got mixed up with the dragon hunters. Then you convinced Eret to go work for them to pay it all off?"

"Convinced? Pah..." Eryna went slightly closer to the cell. "Who do you think lured those wild dragons into that cargo hatch in the first place?"

Cami was slightly wide-eyed at this, before scoffing as she said "you? Come on... I saw y'with Furious today, you wouldn't have known the first thing about controlling dragons to do stuff like that..."

"The trappers know this famous bloke, I mean... you Archipelago dwellers would never have heard of him, but... but he's well-known here..." Eryna said, before clearing her throat as she realised she was getting off-track. "Anyway... so this bloke has quite the hefty supply of Deathgripper venom, and I got a free sample from them. It's apparently even more effective than that Alpha dragon your peg-leg friend has on Berk, and I have to admit... the plan worked like a dream. He fell into their hands like nobody's business... and now I'll do it again, just as easy."

"He changed. If you hand Eret over to the Dragon Hunters, he'll never work for them!"

"They don't want his services this. They want his dragon, and they want his head. Both of which will pay generously enough for me to repay my gambling debts. And as far as I'm concerned, Cami... people are incapable of change... Eret was always a weak, cowardly fool. His Rumblehorn didn't give him those things..."

Eryna glanced back in the direction of the village as she itched the back of her neck. "So... assuming you know what the plan is... I hope you don't mind if I'm the one riding Furious..."

"You... you r... y... y-you Thor-forsaken RAT!" Cami lunged to attack onto to be stopped by the bars of the cell. "If you lay a finger on Furious, when I get outta here, I'm gonna..."

"Out of there? Ah ha ha ha... whoever said you were getting out of there?"

"You can't keep a Bog Burglar under lock and key! You can't!"

"Hm... well..." Eryna pouted sarcastically as she pretended to contemplate. "I suppose we'll just have to see what the tide has to say about that..."

"Wait, the ti... the tide?!" Cami went wide-eyed as she looked at her feet, noticing the water had already risen a notable amount during their conversation alone. "Oh, you sneaky little..."

"Y'know, I must say... as tragic as this ending for you is... I did like meeting you, Cami. Honest." Eryna smirked in a surprisingly genuine tone as she climbed higher up the rock, waving back as she added "and I do hope, all deaths aside, that you enjoyed your stay here as well... goodbye, Camicazi."

"You rat! You thieving, no-good, treacherous RAT!"