Astrid wakes up. She tries to move her hands to rub her eyes: her hands are stopped by a kind of membrane. She opens her eyes and sees weak sunrays coming from a dark membrane and reaching the snow on the ground, making a gray tone inside of the small hot kind of cocoon that she is inside. Astrid's mind starts to turn on and she remembers what happened. "Toothless!" is the first thought in her mind. "Oh, my... He..." She keeps thinking remembering that light feeling when she fainted and Toothless embraced her with his paws and wings. She glides her hand through her torso – due to the tightness of Toothless' protection – and reaches Toothless' paw beside her shoulder. "I..." Astrid sighs while reflecting. "I shouldn't have tried to go this far. Now Hiccup is missing and... We are missing and you're hurt. But, after all... I guess we really should have come this far. 'Cause... Hiccup needs us."
"Toothless" Astrid whispers while looking up at the cocoon made by the dragon's wings. "Tooth" She calls once again, this time without whispering: Nothing happens. "Tooth, I know you're exhausted, but we gotta find him." Toothless opens his wings and gets up after Astrid. "Okay, I guess we've just fell close to...somewhere." She tries to keep calm. Toothless groans in disappointment. "Well, let's keep flying so...wait, can you still fly?" Toothless jumps and spreads his wings in the air before fall to the ground, contracting them with a grunt of pain. "Wow, that's really great. The strong cold winds must have made your wing muscles get very painful. We'd better keep walking".
After eating some bread from her bag without almost not even chew it, Astrid was deciding the largest way to follow when she spotted something stuck in the middle of a tree. She gets closer and finds out that it's a Viking knife. She whispers while stroking gently her fingers through the blade. Her head starts to work faster. "We didn't go so far to find another viking tribe. No, we're still on Berk. It actually, reminds me of...yes." She remembers that it was the knife that Hiccup used when they trained aiming. She feels something wet on her fingers and, when she turns the knife, she finds out that the other side is completely red. She rubs her fingers on her shirt and checks them, to make sure that she didn't cut herself. No, the blood was already there. She takes another look at the tree and notices a straight red line in the middle of the dark oak.
"Blood..."She speaks, trying to fit it somewhere at the investigation, trying to associate it with Hiccup. Nothing. She sits for a moment and watches Toothless, trying to catch an orange butterfly with his paws, while thinking. Starting to disbelieve that could come to a good or useful conclusion, but still, trying. "Survival logic: It's from Hiccup, it's with blood and it's still wet. Hiccup must be close or someone stole it from him. The chance of someone have killed him must be guaranteed from the same way as he has killed someone...or something. But, why would he go this far from the village without even warning me or his father and without even taking Toothless?" She keeps reflecting.
Toothless stops chasing the butterfly. He keeps still for a moment, before raise his ears. Astrid only notices his different behave when his iris get really contracted. Astrid gets scared as he seems to look at something behind the tree where she's leaned. With her hand at the knife on her belt, she was about to turn and check what was behind her when suddenly, they hear a loud and wild groan of agony coming from behind the tree where Astrid was.