Ruffnut walked along with the chipper young woman as they inspected the juvenile Nadders of last year's Snoggletog. Days were short and the weather was unforgiving but it took nothing out of the holiday spirit of Astrid; Ruff was just trying to distract her from spreading the joy with foul Yaknog.
"Heard Snotlout is planning a big surprise for you this year," Astrid chattered. Above, a small flock of Terrors broke into a fight. Ruffnut was unimpressed both by Astrid's reminder and the chaos going on over their heads.
"Yeah," she answered dryly. "It would have been a bigger surprise if he could stop talking about how great it is. He gets lost a lot, I think he's gonna make something for me…"
"What's your gift then?"
Ruff shrugged as she stepped away from a few spines a small nadder accidentally threw.
"I'm gonna let him."
A/N: Mini chapter for "exchanging gifts". I've skipped Day 16, which was Strangled AU/Rapunzel AU because I didn't have a good idea to work with. I'll probably get back to in at some point.