thethiefandtheairbender:

HAPPY 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY “HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON”

It’s a mess. You’ve lost everything. Your father, your tribe, your best friend. Thank you for summing that up. Why couldn’t I have killed that dragon when I found him in the woods? It would have been better for everyone. Yup. The rest of us would have done it. So why didn’t you? Why didn’t you? I dunno. I couldn’t. That’s not an answer. Why is this so important to you all of a sudden? Because I want to remember what you say, right now. Oh for the love of - I was a coward, I was weak, I wouldn’t kill a dragon! You said wouldn’t that time. Well whatever, I wouldn’t! Three hundred years, and I’m the first Viking who wouldn’t kill a dragon. First to ride one, though. So…? I wouldn’t kill him because he looked as frightened as I was. I looked at him and I saw myself.