Serendipity (Hiccup x reader)

Chapter 24

I just want to give a huge shoutout to snowbird87 for making the very first fanart of this story!! Thanks so much! ❤️❤️ I'm literally in tears rn.

hiraeth

(n.) a homesickness for a home you can't return to

"I cannot believe we spent our entire day looking for a treasure that turned out to be this- this thing! Whatever it is." Erland grunted, he's been saying the same thing over and over for the past hour and you grew irritated each time. But thankfully you weren't the type of person to burst out in screams so you just nodded politely every time.

Erland seemed to catch on though. "I thought you'd be more resentful, (Y/N)." He stated and you silently sucked in a breath. "Don't you care that we risked our lived just for that thing?" Erland pressed on.

Of course you trusted Erland, but not to the point where you can tell him about the dragon eye and how this was a very crucial discovery. There was still this lingering worry after what happened with Mariah and the undeniable fret that he might turn out to be like her. A spy. Albeit, the chances of that happening were minimum.

Whether Erland was a really good actor for whining all this time or he was actually this furious, you decided not to take your chances. It was better if he didn't knew anything about the dragon lens.

"Well if the gods had this planned then so be it." You replied with a nonchalant tone and shrugged your shoulders as if finding the this random object wasn't so bothersome.

"Oh come on (Y/N), unleash the anger!" Erland jokingly patted your arm and you chuckled. His mood shifted from being enraged to serious then to giddy in a matter of seconds and it left you marveled how he could have that many mood swings in such short period of time.

"Nope, I'm all good." You replied.

Erland kept talking about something, but you weren't really paying attention. Your mind was too fixated on the dragon lens you had found and what could be on it. Perhaps there would be a new dragon or more useful information's.

Thankfully Erland didn't notice your lack of attentiveness and by the time you finished with your preoccupied thoughts, he was still talking.

It was night by the time you returned from the island, having nothing else to comment, Erland and you bid your goodbyes and went to separate directions.

Upon arriving in your hut, Crystal crooned and went to bed right away. You patted her one last time before going to bed yourself.

You were exhausted, to say the least and you'd think that the moment your head hit the pillow you would be sound asleep, but instead you kept rolling left and right with to trace of sleep coming anytime soon.

After some minutes of laying motionlessly, you pushed away the covers and got up. Just as you were about to open the door and take a midnight stroll, something on the table caught your attention.

You walked over and took ahold of it.
The dragon eye lens, it was just as any other but this one had more meaning since you found it. The lens reflected the moonlight from the window as you twirled it around in your hands and stared at it for a few seconds.

Everything inside of you was screaming to go find the Dragon eye and see the content of the lens, but the rational side of you knew better.
Soon it turned into an internal debate of what would happen if you did and didn't use the Dragon eye.

For example, Erland could stumble on you looking at the lens and that would lead to him never stop asking about what the Dragon eye is.

All the way to your bed, you kept pondering on the pros and cons and in the end concluded to just stay in your hut and hide the lens till Erland's leave.