It's far from the first time I've been out in one. And besides, some of the greatest innovations in the world have come about thanks to a well-timed thunderstorm.

[She glances back as well; he raises a good point about the Leavanny, not because she doubts Stoick's ability to handle her dragon but because sometimes Abbie is just difficult to handle in general, and it doesn't really seem fair to saddle someone else's Pokemon, however generously they offer, with her. In Hiccup's absence, keeping tabs on her had largely fallen to Chief and Zack, but with the two of them occupied...]

I hate to put her away, but it might be for the best. She's getting better at staying put when she's told, but as you saw firsthand, when she gets excited, she has a tendency to...forget.