If not for her gaze going to his feet he wouldn’t have known what she meant- but he compared his to hers and saw that there was a distinctive difference. He had toes. A slight smirk tugged his lips. “Ah. Yes… I see what you mean but unless you want to come back to the village with me…” He drawled out pointedly and gave his shoulders a small shrug. “I guess I’ll just have to go without.”
And that was it- he didn’t push it because he didn’t see the importance of any of these skins, as a dragon he went around bare and it never caused him any pain. It was clear he had no real intention to drag her towards that settlement since he immediately started to trek towards the forest instead. While he felt weird upon two legs rather than the usual four he choose this form over the other so words wouldn’t be lost between them. Unfortunately it didn’t seem to make much of a difference though and he didn’t want to start a conversation when his understanding of the world would be alien to him. He hummed a catchy tune that was not his own but he sometimes overheard the wife of the previous chief of Berk sing and had learned from Hiccup it had more to it.
As a dragon he didn’t understand what marriage implied but he liked the words all the same. “My dearest one my darling dear, your mighty words astound me, but I have no need of mighty deeds when I feel your arms around me.” Of course his own mother use to sing to him and his siblings when one of them was bothered or scared but this was something she had to transform to do because it was something that humans did best. “But I would bring you rings of gold, I’d even sing you poetry.” He drew a breath as he hopped down from a rocky ledge to lower ground “and I would keep you from ALL harm if you would stay beside me.” And because he enthusiastically threw his hand out right then he ended up slapped in the face with a branch, jerking back with a curse. His gaze shifted upward as lower creatures laughed at him from the higher canopy and he growled- the rodents taking the hint to run off right then.