#stepintotheopenair

Merida slouched down in her throne, cheek on her fist, elbow on the armrest.  She groaned, causing Elinor to glance over with raised eyebrows.  Merida pulled a face at her mum, and the queen turned back to the crowd in front of them, subtly rolling her eyes.  Merida went back to reveling in her misery as her parents, the fellow clans, and the vikings continued negotiations.

There was one thing that caught Merida's attention, though.  Standing slightly behind the vast figure of the leader of the vikings --Stork the Huge, or something like that-- was a substantially smaller young man, looking just as bored and annoyed as Merida.  But what really caught her attention was the fact that he was missing the lower half of his leg, and in it's place was a very unique peg leg.  

Merida glanced from the boy to her parents, then back.  She glanced at her parents one last time before slipping off her thrown and quickly hurrying into the crowd.

She pushed and nudged and "Pardon me!"'d her way through the assembled people, trying to be as subtle as possible.  Finally, she came to a stop behind the boy.  She saw Elinor notice her, look at Merida's empty throne and back, and Merida gave her mother a guilty grin.

She leaned over to the shaggy haired, peg legged boy, and tapped him on the shoulder, softly asking, "You look as bored as Ah am.  Wot doya say to gettin' out o' here?"

((ARGH IT'S STUPID FEEL FREE TO CHANGE ANYTHING))

Why was he even here again?  Hiccup sighed, unable to even see what was going on around the girth of his father.  Just as he was considering his exit options, he felt someone tap his shoulder and jumped a bit.  When he turned around he was shocked to see the Princess standing there.

"You look as bored as Ah am.  Wot doya say to gettin' out o' here?" she asked, and Hiccup thanked Thor that he wasn't the only one.