Convenient. [ Hiccup's response is immediate. Maybe he hasn't asked the right questions — But he's also faced and seen too many people to trust someone who held them captive for weeks at face value. This was coming from him, naive peacemaker that he was once upon a time: ] And did they tell you that before or after they assured you were going to follow along?

[ If it was after than that was a moot point to him. It's obvious something changed in the people who left. They accepted it... What? The voice that told him day in and day out the world didn't deserve to stay as it was? He doesn't want to believe anyone would believe that. ]

What about them makes you want to follow them? What do you expect to get out of it?