第二十二章：后来发生了什么(3)

Patience put down his head and nudged Hiccup’s head upwards so that he looked at him. He
put one paw on one side of Hiccup’s head and looked straight into Hiccup’s eyes. They were so close, that you could just see the vague outline of the irises, the black of the pupils. Kind eyes. ‘I think perhaps, you should leave us now,’ Patience said casually. ‘The Monster is coming, and the tide will come in, and so this is your last chance to go back on the sand-yacht. The Monster will not eat dragon-flesh. We are too tough for it.’ How strange dragons are, thought Hiccup. This one can move from cruelty to selfless kindness in a heartbeat. ‘Leave us,’ said Patience. ‘Leave usss,’ repeated Innocence and Arrogance. ‘We won’t drown,’ Patience assured him. ‘We have gills.’ Hiccup dropped his head from the mesmerising, hypnotising gaze and carried on working at the dragon-trap. ‘You lie. You’re not a Sea Dragon,’ said Hiccup shortly. Trust Hiccup to know his dragon species. ‘You’re an Air Dragon. Those gills only work up to a certain point.’ But after a minute he called out to Camicazi, who was patrolling around them with her fiercest Bog-Burglar expression, two swords drawn. ‘Camicazi,’ he said as casually as he could,