[accidental video / action]

[no_eels]

[Toothless has a certain fascination with art. First it was sticks in the mud, then outside chalk, and then paint on the other side of the mirrors. Today he's found more paint, except in bigger containers. With lots of colors. And bigger brushes! He likes them — he can do more with them, and not worry about them breaking in his mouth.

Paint doesn't taste good. He's finding out again today.

Because today, one of the hallways has been sacrificed to his artistic efforts. Though, to be fair, it was an accident that the first paint container broke in his mouth. And then the others followed, because Toothless has discovered finger painting.

Or, more accurately, paw painting. And tail painting. It's a mess.

His communicator is jostled on as he paws patterns of yellow, blue, green, red, and white all over the floor and some of the walls. Toothless has lost his natural black camouflage. He's just a tangle of bright colors, splattered messily, as he also uses his chin and belly to get the colors in the right patterns.]

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[no_eels]

[The Night Fury nods, the irritation sliding off of his face. That's acceptable. Accurate, anyway. Most dragons don't want to hurt Vikings, Vikings just get in their way. Vikings make a poor meal. It's just pure ego that makes them think dragons actually want to devour them.

With the exception, again, of a few types of dragons who deal with things a bit differently.]

[halfwinchester]

So you are a dragon.

<sub>[As if the tail, and the fins, and the scales doesn't give that part away. Underneath the psychedelic paint job and the big, cutesy eyes is a mythical creature.

Can it breathe fire? Adam seriously fucking hopes not, or at least that it doesn't while he's standing here, now having finished feeding the thing and being sniffed by it. Why is he still standing here? He should be in a padded room right about now. ]</sub>

Now... what?

_{[There's nothing like talking to a monster to make you second guess your place in life.]}

[no_eels]

[Toothless almost seems to frown, for a moment. How should he know what the Viking was doing? Other than getting food, which seems to be a moot point at the present. Or maybe he should go get some more. But whatever the case, Toothless is content enough to offer him a suggestion.

He leans down and nudges at a container of paint with his snout, a closed one, until it rolls to Adam's feet.

The solution is to clearly come paint with him.]

[halfwinchester]

_{[He and Toothless are following two completely different trains of thought, made abundantly clear when the thing uses its snout to push a paint canister at him. He doesn't have the slightest idea what dragons even think about, but this one...]}

What?

_{[It wants to... keep playing...? He brings the container to a stop with the inside of his shoe.]}

[no_eels]

[He makes an indistinct rumble — paint! — before dipping his paw in more of his own paint and beginning to make sloppy patterns again. These are more nonsensical than the fish or circles or the letters of his name, more like the squiggly lines of a toddler delighted by artistic endeavours.]

[halfwinchester]

_{[The rumbling answer would be helpful if this understanding thing ran both ways, but it's not like he'd studied dragon speak in school.]}

What is up with you? Someone ask you to redecorate the mansion and you're getting paid with fish?

_{[This time, the squiggles aren't of anything recognizable, they're just mixed-up lines of color. Who the hell knows, maybe that's enough to entertain something like Toothless. Adam thinks about it for a moment before he pries the lid off the can and pushes it back toward the dragon.]}

Knock yourself out.

[no_eels]

[He's happy to do so, and makes a sloppy mess of the new paint on the floor before adding a few new squiggles. The Night Fury is thinking of clouds, the kind he sees when someone rides on his back and he takes them high up.]

[halfwinchester]

<sub>[This kind of feels like a spectator sport in a way.

He stands back, watching the creature go about its business with gusto. Children finger-painting isn't out of the ordinary, but this is a dragon, and watching Toothless draw takes on a whole new meaning. It's like a certain kind of magic.

Adam can even forget, for a little while, who he is and what's happened to him.]</sub>