[She's perfectly content to sit back and watch Hiccup as he works here; frankly, that's mostly the reason she came down in the first place, because it takes all of about two seconds in Hiccup's presence to figure out just how crazy he is about dragons, and she's honestly curious to see how he takes to this one — and, once it hatches, how it takes to him.

Riku had given her the rundown of this particular dragon's capabilities when she'd purchased it from him, extolling its virtues in battle, and she'd come away from it thinking only of how she was going to have to start early with this one, nipping any potentially aggressive tendencies in the bud, and make sure it learned plenty of moderation from the very beginning, lest its own power get the better of it later.

And what better way of exposing it to good influences, she thinks with a smile, than letting the first person it meets upon hatching be Hiccup.]

I'd mostly be worried about it hurting itself, trying to experience a world it can't see without having learned how to adapt to it.

[As if on cue, the big crack in the egg splinters off into two others, and a big piece of shell falls off as a stubby blue-and-black head bumps against it from the inside.]

And here we go.