(From the epilogue of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World)
Hiccup: There were dragons when I was a
boy...Oh, there were great grim sky dragons that nested on the clifftops
like gigantic, scary birds. Little brown scuttly dragons that hunted down the mice and rats in well-organized packs. Preposterously huge sea dragons twenty times as big as the big blue whale. Some say that the dragons went back to the sea, leaving not a
bone nor a fang for men to remember them by. Others say they were nothing but folktales to begin with. Eh...I'm okay with that. Legend says that when the ground quakes or
lava spews from the
earth, it's the dragons. Letting us know they're still here, waiting for us to get along. Yes, the world believes that the dragons are
gone, if they ever existed at all. But we Berkians? We know otherwise. And we'll guard that secret until the time comes when dragons can return in
peace.
