[Astrid's immediate plan of action after figuring out where she was and talking to the weird man who gave her what little information she had, was to find an armory. There had to be one, what village wouldn't have one? She'd dropped her axe when that Thor-damned dragon picked her up
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Have you recently arrived?
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I have.
[....well, she never intended to say a lot. 8| Are you going to introduce yourself?]
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I am the Warrior of Light, and this place is called Vertiline. You have been brought here in the hopes that you will aid the local inhabitants in their fight against invading monsters.
[Your turn now, Astrid.]
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Astrid Hofferson of Berk.
[See, she knew most of that, but...]
Well, where are these monsters we're supposed to fight?
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We recently endured an invasion, though the creatures were...trivial.
[Jack mice and vicious rabbits weren't what he pictured when they were told there would be 'monsters'.]
But there is a strange fog that surrounds the area, and within lurk much more dangerous creatures. It has already claimed two lives, although the unfortunate were revived by unknown means shortly afterwards.
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Revived? That's not possible. Maybe they weren't really dead, just... comatose, or something?
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I have seen revival of the dead before, but...the situations were very different. Somehow, I do not think this is the doing of any god.
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What do you mean, 'not the doing of any god'? The Gods don't have that kind of power.
[Not back home, to Astrid's knowledge, anyway.]
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[At least, he's assuming so.]
What holds true for yours may not hold true for mine, or the other way around.
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[Cautious skepticism is the name of the game here. She's not going to jump to any conclusions, or suddenly believe what people are trying to tell her.]
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...Do you know a boy named Hiccup?
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