"Adeline!" A voice called. 

Addi snapped her head back toward the sound of her name. She knew it was the caretaker. "Coming, Miss," she called back. She stood and turned back toward the Great Hall, saying goodbye to the southern ocean with a sorrowful apology in her eyes. Addi sighed as she trudged inside to her sleeping quarters in a visitor's lounge. The caretaker fussed over her for the millionth time, telling her that she really should stay out of the cold unless she was wearing more furs, since she wasn't used to this kind of brutal cold. Addi had learned how to tune her out without seeming disrespectful and did so for the thousandth time. She nodded and miles apologies and empty promises to stay warm next time and thanked the caretaker for her concern. It had become routine. 

As she readied herself for bed, she heard a knock at the door. 

"Adeline?" A young male voice asked. "Can I, uh, speak to you, please?"

She recognized that voice. It was the first voice she had heard when she woke up for the first time after the shipwreck. "Hiccup?"

"Yeah, it's me."

"Um... Yeah, sure, we can... We can talk."

Hiccup opened the door and awkwardly entree the room, sitting on a stool nearby. Addi say awkwardly on the edge of the bed, wringing her hands. 

"Listen," Hiccup began, "I'm really sorry about earlier today. There was just a lot of miscommunication going on and the others haven't accepted your presence here yet, and-"

"Hiccup, please," Addi interrupted, holding up a hand to stop him. "It's okay, really. I won't be here terribly long anyway. I need to find a way to get home."

"That's just it, though... What if... What if you never get home?"

Addi let that concept sink in for a moment, then shook her head. "I will get home. I have to. My family, my village, they're all depending on me. I need to. You do understand, right? I... They can't live without me."

Hiccup sighed. "Okay. You're right. But... I just don't want you to get your hopes up anytime soon. The ice won't break up until almost summer, even with the hp of the dragons, and there's no guarantee that we can get a boat into open sea." He smiled apologetically. "I just don't want you to e disappointed, that's all."

"I'll be fine. Really, I will." Addi half-smiled through her homesickness and sighed. "We've got a long day ahead of us tomorrow. We should get some sleep."

"Yeah, we do. See you in the morning."

"Yeah. Night."

Addi watched the door close and flopped back onto the bed. The dragon in the corner of the room huffed. 

"You may want to think about giving your dragon a proper name," Hiccup's muffled voice called through the door. "It might help a little."

"Maybe I'll think about it tomorrow," she mumbled, then rolled onto her side and blew out the candle on the bedside table.