Curate, connect, and discover
Hiccup tried again a few time to drop by when the kid were playing to see who was this guy. And everytime he found no one but it was clear that the kid had played with someone else. Hiccup started to worry about what that stranger may be planning to do with the young vikings.
The other thought that he was stressing over nothing and Astrid even said he was worrying them however he just couldn't let it go. The kid were playing with someone who hide everytime an adult arrive at the scene and that could only spell trouble.
So hiccup changed stratedgy. He started to listend more carrefully to what the children said after comming back. He waited for them to make a mistake and reveal anything. He asked the parent what they knew, what the kids told them, what they were speaking about when they thought no adult could hear them.
And after some time he got a name. A young man that was good at snowball fight named Jack Frost. At first he wasn't sure the parent said it was an imaginary friend, but to may kid talked about the same person and it was almost never intentional. They would react as if they had reveald a great secret and if some found it funny but hiccup was now certain about the existant. The other may not believe it but he did, someone, a stranger had been playing with the kid in secret for weeks now.
Thus the next time he tried to see this man interact with the youngs ones he told toothless to stay behind and followed the children by foot. They were going to the same clairing right beside the wood as they had done every other day. But unlike his precedent attempte this time when he sneakily approched the group he saw him. This "Jack Frost" that the kid spoke about and that had worried him so much was a teenager. He must have been 15 at most and if he was in fact not from Berk hiccup wasn't bothered by that anymore.
Nooo what troubled him was that the teen was showing pretty clair sign of early hypothermia, didn't wear any winter clothe good enought for the weather and didn't have ANY SHOES ON?! How was he not freezing in place? This kid clearly needed somewhere to go. So hiccup started approaching, he needed to know what was really going on.
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