Post Thirty One: Doing the rounds

[witchofthechalk]

[There is a teenage girl knocking at your door. Yes your door.....unless you are Teatime. She's wearing a witches hat and carrying a bag in her hands.]

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[worstvikingever]

That's good. [He looks around at where they're walking.] Where do you live, anyway?

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

1670 Nelson street.

[worstvikingever]

[He thinks about this.]

I'm not sure I've been down that way yet.

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

It looks like every other part of town. So you might have and not just realized it.

[worstvikingever]

Yeah, that's probably true. Who do you live with?

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

I live with England, Sophie and Tavros.

[worstvikingever]

Sophie? I've talked with her a couple of times, she's really nice. Don't think I've talked to the other two, though.

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

Yes. She is. I've been living with her and England for a while. Tavros is rather new. He's ...a troll of some sort. Rather large horns. Apologizes for things all the time.

England is... Is.... well a country of course. And also ....England.

...rather hard to explain. He's not a bad sort for a father though.

[worstvikingever]

[Hiccup is mildly confused. He hasn't actually met any of the countries yet, and the concept is still a little fuzzy to him since he came from a culture and place where countries were largely unimportant.]

I've met a couple of the trolls. They're pretty fun, actually.

...he's a country? Uh... okay.

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

Oh. Yes, there's quite a few of them here. They're personifications of countries. I've meet quite a few of them. England has a large family here.

[Who keep breaking into the house in the middle of the night.]

[worstvikingever]

[Hiccup nods, trying to process this.]

It's just... weird, because back home we didn't really have countries. Or if we did, we didn't know about them and it wasn't really important.

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

[She nods]

We didn't really have them at home either. We had area's of land that had names. But they weren't countries really. More like regions.

[worstvikingever]

[He shrugs.]

We just had our village. Outside of that it wasn't really all that important.

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

It's that way for most of the people in my village as well. The only reason I travelled was to go and study with some of the other witches.

[worstvikingever]

Yeah... I don't think I can remember anyone ever leaving the village for any reason.

[the-wee-big-hag.livejournal.com]

That is contained. Were you farmers then?

[worstvikingever]

Okay well I meant moving away, really. People left to go hunting and they went in search of the dragon nest a bunch of times too.

No, not farmers. Vikings.