Chapter 26: Cool PartyAfter we finished lunch (which involved much more viking eggnog than is probably healthy), Hiccup gave me a tour of the 'rookery' place. It was half-way down a cliff, in a secluded area that seemed nice enough. The building looked like it was half-embedded in the cliff wall, and when we stepped inside I saw why. The rookery was constructed over the mouth of a large cave. It was divided into a series of rooms, which Hiccup called 'nesting chambers', each of which was large enough for two dragons to get frisky, and had a large pit in the center. Peeking into the unused rooms, it seemed that some of the pits were lined with straw, some were bare rock, and some were filled with steaming water. The walls of the rooms seemed to be a sort of loosely-woven fiber, covered in simple tapestries.
"The wool lining protects the walls from egg shrapnel," explained Hiccup. "Almost all of the walls are all removable,