第二十三章:有些龙是真的怪物(7)
But the Monster with the eye-claws was shooting flames upward in continuous bursts of hot, then freezing, flame. This turned the sand pouring through into something that looked like glass, sealing the hole. They seemed to be in some sort of cavern, and the Monster moved its head this way and that, reinforcing the glass walls of the tunnel. The flames stopped. Hiccup could hear the Wodensfang’s little quavery voice in his head, ‘Now, now, Hiccup, dragons are not Monsters you know…
’ But the thing is, just as some humans can be evil, some dragons really are Monsters. You should never judge a book by its cover, but on this occasion, Hiccup felt he was on fairly safe ground. This Monster’s primitive and ghastly appearance told him there would be no point reasoning with it (however optimistic the Wodensfang might be about the possibility of dragons evolving consciences and complicated things like that). This Monster couldn’t evolve a conscience in the next thirty seconds, and it was unlikely to be a sympathetic audience. There is such a huge variety of dragon species, you see.
’ But the thing is, just as some humans can be evil, some dragons really are Monsters. You should never judge a book by its cover, but on this occasion, Hiccup felt he was on fairly safe ground. This Monster’s primitive and ghastly appearance told him there would be no point reasoning with it (however optimistic the Wodensfang might be about the possibility of dragons evolving consciences and complicated things like that). This Monster couldn’t evolve a conscience in the next thirty seconds, and it was unlikely to be a sympathetic audience. There is such a huge variety of dragon species, you see.