Ava listened to her father carefully when he said he was once not as viking as he was now. Well, even now he was exactly to the norm of 'viking' but he was still lean and strong. He as going to continue on saying how he was when he was younger when the woman from before stepped in to describe that for him. And honestly the description she used for her father kind of....reminded Ava of herself. Well, minus the destroying houses part. But in the village she grew up in she was always the smallest. Not strong enough to do anything. It was only when she discovered her knack for building inventions at the early age of seven that she found her place, but even then she hadn't been very popular in her village. In fact, she was fairly sure her inventions were the only reason they had put up with her for so long.

But, besides that, she noticed how Hiccup talked about his mother and blinked in surprise. His mother? So, her grandmother? She had a grandmother? A grandmother that rode dragons as well? She straightened in curiosity, but nothing more was said other than the woman hadn't returned yet and her father went outside to talk to to this woman. She sat back down and things were quit for a moment before Ava looked to her mother again, "When I was here before, did I even ride dragon too?"

Castiel smiled and standing up she took one of the notepads from a nearby shelf, writing on it, "Yes, a lot actually. When you were younger your grandmother used to take you on her dragon and when you got to be two years old, Blizzard started letting you ride around on him. You were the only one he let ride him. You two were quite the team." 

Ava nodded, "And....where is grandmother now?"

Castiel shrugged her shoulder, "Out flying with dragon Cloudjumper." Then, suddenly deciding maybe she should go outside and see what the problem was the two were discussing, she held up a figure to tell Ava to hold on a moment before going to the door and closing it behind her. When she stepped out and heard Astrid say 'it's spreading quicker now' she immediately knew what the two of them were talking about. When Hiccup said he would consult the healer, Castiel looked at him and signed she would go as well. After all, it was she who went out to gather herbs for the healer most of the time anyway. Surely there might be some plant that could help take this illness away. With that, she went inside and signed for Aurora to stay int he house for now with Blizzard and Ava, and picking up the notepad again, wrote that she and Hiccup would be back very soon. She gave her daughter a hug goodbye before leaving out.

Ava watched as her mother left and it was quiet again for a long moment until she looked over at Blizzard, raising an eyebrow, "So, wouldn't let anyone ride you except me, huh? Why is that?" After all, why would he not let any of the experienced adult dragon riders get on him, yet let a young child ride him? It seemed strange to her. And more so, why wait all these years just to find the same rider he had before when there were so many riders who would want to ride on him here in Berk?