We wanted to. [That had really been the only answer at the time and it turned out to be kind of a bad idea. They received new information that's come to light since then...but they also lost two people.] It's pretty dangerous if you go alone, that place is crawling with monsters and the trees can trick you into thinking a lot of things. We needed to go back and scout ourselves though and we found some of the natives. Occidi's people? They didn't want to talk to us at first until they saw that Hiccup had a dragon and decided we weren't a huge threat. It's just taken a while for us to really understand everything they were talking about. [He pauses in his explanation finally.] ...Adelina, they keep bringing in kids. Like young kids who really can't defend themselves. How messed up is that?

[And speaking of messed up...he frowns suddenly.] It's...did you hear about that house of mirrors?