第五章:门的另一边(21)
the ground beside him, there came a sound that made Hiccup’s neck crawl with fear as if beetles had crept underneath his collar, and every single individual hair on his head spike upwards as though they were the quills of a porcupine… Step TAP, step TAP, step TAP, step TAP… … along the floor of the suddenly silent courtyard. And with a cold trickle of dread, Hiccup saw from underneath the table, the legs of a man come striding into view and stop right in front of him, so close that he could have reached out and touched them. To be more precise, one leg was made out of flesh. The other was made out of ivory. Sadly Hiccup could not see the rest of him, for Alvin the Treacherous, King-in- Waiting of the Wilderwest, was a handsome sight indeed, a villain in the very flower and blossom of his villainy, blooming with warts like a tree in fruit, skeleton and snake tattoos writhing gloriously over his gigantic muscles and all the remaining parts of him that were still human.