第二十三章：有些龙是真的怪物(13)

leg, and blasted the ground underneath him with fire and sea-water to make a nice clean glass surface to eat off, because like Slitherfangs, it seemed to be very pernickety about such things, and laid him down carefully, arranging his arms by his sides. Then there was a pause, during which Hiccup was absolutely dying to open his eyes, and a horrible, horrible moment when he could feel the Monster sniffing, sniffing at his ears…
It’s going to start at the wrong end! thought Hiccup, desperately trying to think of a plan on the spur of the moment that would work on killing a dragon that was swallowing your head. But just as he was about to do something stupid like try and jump to his feet, he felt a sort of snuffling on his right big toe. The Monster had changed its mind, what there was of a mind of course. Now why did the Monster change its mind? I’ll tell you why. Because Hiccup was wearing his helmet. It didn’t want to start at the end with the long broken tickly thing on it. Well, the Wodensfang and Toothless will be pleased about that, thought Hiccup, slightly hysterically. They’re