Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make.

I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.

Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.

The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.