1 - First Contact

A young warrior of the Berserker tribe, Skuf the Silent, has always been unusual. A mute from birth. A prodigy with the sword. An unofficial uncle of an orphan. Shorter than Berk's heir by a hair. That's what they all say about him because that's what they know. What they don't say is that he talks to dragons.

And they talk back.

Note -- I started making a pass of edits in the process of posting this story on another site. As I started making edits, it became clear this story didn't just need some grammar tweaking, it needed a lot of reworking. I'm not changing the overarching plot, but still overhauling a lot.