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[Astrid is sitting on a bench outside of one of the big stores in Goldenrod, looking...a bit cross. After a minute of glaring at the camera, she reaches off screen and holds up a blue and yellow guitar.]

Whoever told me you could buy axes in Goldenrod, if this is what you meant...

[Yes, she's cross!]

This is not an axe! It's some kind of music...thing. I don't know. I asked for an axe and the guy sold me this. I don't even know what to do with it! I thought maybe it was a carrying case for an axe, some kind of modern...trick.

But it's not!

[She huffs and sets her guitar back down in her lap, plucking irritably at one of the strings.]

I don't suppose anybody does know what to do with it? I bought it, I have to do something with it.

[Another pause, and then she seems to remember something.]

Oh right, also. There's a thing that teaches pokemon to fly? A disc or square or...I don't know, whatever the word is. Someone said you can use it more than once, does anybody in goldenrod have one I could borrow for a couple minutes?

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It's not the same.

[She hasn't thought to ask him. Yet.]

No, I can't. They said I couldn't get my money back. I'm stuck with it.

[He'll take advantage of that as long as he can.]

Oh. [That makes him frown. It wasn't what she wanted, so she should be allowed to return it.] Will you learn how to play it, then? I'm sure there are plenty people that know how who can teach you.

Somebody said I should...[She plucks another string.] I don't even know where to start.

Well... You could always ask the Other Father. He's really good with this thing called a piano, so he might know about guitars, too. [Shrug.] He's a little strange sometimes, but he let me stay with him after I ran out of travel companions.

...Other Father? [What.]

[He doesn't really know, either.]

That's what he calls himself, anyway. He watches over a lot of kids, since, you know, most of us don't exactly have our parents here. He has a house right here in Goldenrod.

And he calls himself 'Other Father.'

That's pretty weird, Hiccup.

I don't know. He takes over guardianship duties and becomes your other father, so. Other Father.

[It was something that no longer phased Hiccup.]

Maybe it's not particularly creative, but it makes sense.

I...guess.

So you trust him?

Sure. I mean, enough to stay with him a while.

...I'd probably go back, too, if all of you guys disappeared.

Well that's not going to happen. [Pointed look.]

I guess I could ask him, anyway.

[He doesn't say anything to that because by this point, he knows anything could happen. But it makes him happy to hear her say it, anyway.]

Right! No harm in asking. And even if he doesn't know, I bet he could point you in the direction of someone who does.

Why, do all musicians know each other?

[It's...hard to tell if she's kidding or not.]

Well, birds of a feather flock together, and all that.

I guess.

[She shrugs, then looks at the cubone.]

So what's with the skull baby thing?

[The 'skull baby thing' squirms a little to get more comfortable. It was a miracle she could consider Hiccup 'comfortable' at all, really, with how twiggy he is.]

Oh, Val? She just likes it when I carry her around. And, uh, cries if I don't. Cries at a lot of things, really...

So you've spoiled her.

[Well, it's kind of embarrassing when it's put that way.]

I don't know... She was like that in September when she hatched. I guess I just got used to treating her like this.

Not like I mind, though.

[Astrid can't help but smile faintly at that, since it is the least surprising thing ever.]

If you always give her what she wants she'll never learn to work for things, Hiccup.

She's just a baby, Astrid. [And he...likes spoiling her...] A hiccup, too, if the pokedex is right about how big Cubones are supposed to be.

[Okay, she can sort of get that. Kind of. Astrid wasn't exactly the biggest viking either.]

Okay, whatever, Hiccup. Have you been training her at all?

Er... No, not exactly...

[Why send this angel-faced little napper into battle?]

[She's not surprised, but it's still weird to her.]

But that's how they get stronger.

I have plenty of strong pokemon already. [Sigh. They had a very different approach to this whole pokemon thing.] If Valhallarama decides she wants to train when she's a little older, then I'll let her train.

...Valhallarama. [Don't laugh. Don't laugh!]

But she should at least be able to protect herself.

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