"Come on, bud," Hiccup breathes when he determines that Toothless isn't actually wounded. He'd hit the roll hard, but that was an advantage of being kind of small: he was able to just spring up out of it. "Let's try to find some dry ground and check your equipment."

But there was a little panic springing up in his chest, too. An altitude loss of that sort wouldn't have been caused by faulty equipment.