第二十三章：有些龙是真的怪物(10)

This was a fifty-fifty chance, which isn’t normally a good proposition when your life depends on it, but sometimes you just have to give yourself up to the fickle hand of Fate, the toss of a coin. It wasn’t very hard for Hiccup to pretend to be dead, frankly, for he very nearly WAS dead. He made himself go limp, even though every nerve in his body was screaming at him to run away. He forced his body to go limper and limper, and his head to loll backwards. He kept his eyes open, just the tiniest, smidgiest of cracks so that he could see what was going on. He forced himself to lie still as he felt something yucky slide up over his body. It took all of his powers of concentration to stop himself from moving, from jumping up, from shaking off the sand that was gritting all over his body and that disgusting dragon hand that he could see through the cracks of his eyelids. He had to stop himself from crying out in horror at the sight of the two monstrous claws – five fingers, each with an evil dragon eye perched on the end just above the talons. The dragon’s face was blind, with two ghostly hollows where its eyes should have been. But the ten dragon eyes were blinking down at him from the end of the creature’s claws.