punchandkiss | Second Viking Assault

[It's hard to tell exactly where Astrid is when she turns her gear on, but there are trees around, and her Axew is visible resting against one behind her, keeping watch over two pokemon eggs. (She hasn't really gotten the hang of keeping them in pokeballs yet, it seems...mean.) Her attention isn't on them though, she's looking at the screen almost thoughtfully.]

I've been trying to get the hang of all the...little things here, so I decided to try and catch one of the wild pokemon running around on the paths. Which worked, except...

[She turns her camera around to reveal a Sentret happily sitting on the ground in front of her, bouncing up and down on her tail as she watches Astrid.]

I just picked it because it was the first one I found. And now I've caught it and I'm...not really sure what to do with it.

I mean...[She turns the camera back to her.] There are dragons here. And fire breathing dogs, and electric vermin, and so many other powerful looking creatures...

[She turns the camera back to the Sentret, who seems quite happy to be the center of attention.]

Then there's her. ...She looks like something babies sleep with. Or something bigger, stronger animals like to eat.

Do people really train these?

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They come in and shoot my friends and only take the pelts or the antlers and leave the body behind. Even if they take the body they leave the organs on the ground. Lots of times they don't even finish off whoever they shoot and if I can't heal them I have to kill them so that they won't have to suffer. They kill mothers who are still feeding their babies and they'll shoot at squirrels and birds that they don't even plan on taking with them when they leave. They waste the lives they take.

[The bitterness is his voice is very obvious.]

[Okay, that sounds pretty wasteful. And if they were his friends...even if he was crazy...then she could understand the bitterness.]

But not all people are going to do that. We used most of the animals we hunted back on Berk.

I've only talked to humans who weren't like that since I came here.

"Most" of the animals?

Well, there's not a lot to do with feet.

Eat the meat off of them and crack open the bones to eat the marrow, just like any other part of the body. Hooves are hard to do anything with, but you can make something called "glue" out of them.

We're not usually that hard up for food, even in winter. But I guess.

I guess it's easier to have enough food to last over the winter when you have a lot of other people helping you gather it.

What do you normally do with bones then? [And "throw them away" is not the right answer here.]

It depends on the animal, I guess.

I didn't really have a lot to do with that, unless someone needed help.

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