White snow was pelting down on gusts of wind as the brittle trees creaked and groaned. Blizzard cocooned the soft human girl against his scales- clinging to the little bit of body heat she gave off. The weather chilled his exposed back and he curled a little snugger around her as she spoke. He despised the inability to speak her tongue within this form but dare not change given the storm. Instead her purred in assurance. Ava could have never made him come on this journey with her, he was a several ton dragon and she was a lightweight. He choose to be here.

But he snorted because she’d jinx them with a comment like that. [I]Ignore her spirits, she is but a human[/I]. He thought vainly as he set his head down against the stone and blew a hot breath over her.

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“I’m sorry Castiel it’s selfish of me to burden you with this.” Hiccup said with a small smile and could see in her eyes that there was more but she was very weak, unable to convey just what. He knew she wished to reassure him but he could not help but worry about a number of things- this winter was shaping out to be one of the worse. If it was his father faced with this dilemma… he had no doubt he’d go after Ava as he had gone after him when he flew off towards danger, even with a war on their horizon.

The villages here were not hapless sheep. They could take care of themselves and he knew the only dragons with a chance to catch up to Blizzard were the young dragon’s parents but he couldn’t send Aurora alone- without a rider- into this- “I’m going to go after her.”