第九章：邪恶地带(9)

Perhaps he would, thought Hiccup. He felt slightly sick. First I’ll just try and get a sense of what he’s thinking, Hiccup decided. I’ll just check that he’s not too angry with me… Eggingarde was off at a little distance, roaring at scallops and picking up the amber with a pole nearly twice as long as she was. But Stoick was examining some amber a couple of feet away. Hiccup walked up behindhim and said, as casually as he could, as if he were just interested in an off-hand sort of way, ‘So, Chief Stoick, are you really the father of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, the boy the witch is searching the Wilderwest for? ’ Stoick threw a piece of amber over his shoulder. He sailed on, checked the sands all around him to see that there was nothing alarming rising out of them, and Hiccup followed him. ‘Why do you young people ask all these questions?’ grumbled Stoick the Vast, putting out his net and scooping up amber, examining it, and throwing it over his shoulder again. ‘OK!’ gulped Hiccup, his voice sliding up from a gruff to a squeak, because it had been behaving in that uncontrolled manner quite a lot recently. ‘I’ve changed