[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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[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>