Oh, if only. I think my dad might have been able to handle me better then. Now it might have been factor, but I was going through a lot. A lot of growing pains.

[He shrugs a shoulder.]

That's pretty normal. Most people don't really keep up, even the ones who do understand the subject I'm talking about. [He just goes on a tangent and it can easily be a lot, just in volume of words alone.]

There are some things you do just know.

Kind of surprised, though maybe its just how my own mind works. Different perspective. Like, I get being possessive. [He doesn't need her to say it.] I'm not really jealous, but I am at least a little possessive.

Its just from day one, there's always been this understanding. There is someone who will 'win.' Izanagi and Hurricane both have people who could ask them to give up everything, and they would. Miya is a bit of an outlier in that regard, in theory, but she's also a dragon and that....does make a difference in my head.

But they also know if I was asked to choose between them and Toothless, then I would choose Toothless. It wouldn't be a painless choice, I would hate to make it, but I would be lying to deny the choice I would make.

Not! That I'm dating Toothless.

Despite what some fans like to think.

But meeting Toothless was the single most important moment of my life. Protecting him was the one time I would have left Berk forever.