Only for a minute. [ Jarred by the sudden shift of attention, he sits back and plucks at one of the egg rolls, settling on his haunches unable to really avoid the subject now Hiccup is captivated. ] I, uh. I fell through some ice over a lake, they had to revive me. It turns out the shock triggered an auto-immune disease I have called alopecia areata, more of a subtype of the condition that reacts to stress. You're fine, by the way! It's not something contagious, in case you're worried.

[ Jack tweaks his locks, fluffy on his head. ]

Overnight, it turned my hair first grey and then white. It causes your hair to go through a depigmentation process, some of the brown just fell out while I was in hospital and we had to get one of those hand-held vaccums, the fun ones. It all grew back, though.

[ Anyway. Sucking his fingers clean, he shrugs. ]

My hair actually has pigment now, you can see it in my eyebrows, but mostly it can't support the genetics for it. [ He gives him a poke on the chest. ] What am I, huh? Go Google it later.