第五章:门的另一边(8)
她那有毒的铁指甲在石板上划过,发出老鼠刮擦般的声音。
她像死人一样在小嗝嗝面前停了下来。
然后慢慢地,像机器人一样,转过头去。
直直盯着...小嗝嗝的眼睛。
5. THE WRONG SIDE OF THE DOOR Hiccup’s not-so-brilliant plan went wrong right from the beginning. The slaves on the ship on which he had hitched a lift were disembarking and slipping from under the gang-plank of the boat. Hiccup intended to melt into the shadows and explore the prison on his own. As an Outcast, he was now an expert at this kind of sneaky behaviour. But as he tiptoed away, the Wodensfang sneezed from his waistcoat. It was quite a quiet sneeze, but unfortunately Toothless called out ‘Bliss ta!’ – which is Dragonese for ‘Bless you!’ – very, very loudly. And then ‘Bliss ta! Bliss ta! B-b-blissta!’ as Wodensfang sneezed three more times. The prison guard on the gang-plank heard the noise and looked under the gang-plank. ‘WHERE D’YA THINK YOU’RE GOING?’ yelled the guard, assuming he was an escaping slave. The guard gave him a crack of a whip sharper than the bite of a Squirrel-serpent, and invited him to join the long line of slaves sinking ankle deep into the sand as they disembarked from the ship.