[ hiccup can see those, and he won't mention them just yet for nice's sake. there's something like an amused low grunt, but not from the viking--it's from toothless, who seems to find the struggles of the not-so-nature-inclined slightly funny. ]

It's pretty hard out here if you're not used to it. [ considering the large variety of backgrounds in cereal... there's probably a fair number of them that aren't. ] If it helps, this is the kind of thing that just gets way easier with time. Give it a couple more days, I bet you'll be one with nature soon enough.

[ he's making it sound way less complicated than he knows it is. that's not even taking into account alien... nature.... ]