第四章：小嗝嗝的一个不太聪明的计划(7)

And there were fresh dragon corpses too, smelling to high heaven, and leaking green blood into the water, because every night now, the prison was attacked by some of the most ferocious forces of the Dragon Rebellion.
‘This is a terrible plan! The witch and Alvin will catch you!’ squeaked Toothless, in an agony of fear. ‘Nobody’s going to catch us,’ said Hiccup soothingly. ‘We’ll just sneak in, see if we can find my father and Fishlegs and the Jewel, and sneak out again. Us Outcasts are good at sneaking. And if anybody spots us, I’ve got the Slavemark, so they’ll just think I’m another slave. ‘And also,’ he raised an eyebrow, ‘I’m going to be wearing my cunning disguise.’ Hiccup had changed quite a bit after six months of living as an Outcast. He was thinner, taller, and his voice had deepened, and was unsteadily sliding all the time between a gruff and a squeak, so that was a disguise in itself. Now he took off his helmet, and brought out a rag from his rucksack and wound it round his left eye like an eye patch. He fixed a piece of pink-ish candle wax right on the tip of his nose, and it made a rather convincing wart. And he smeared himself with some Stinkdragon stink, that he had been keeping in a little