第二十四章：红鲱鱼的眨眼（拐弯抹角）(4)

so fine that it had turned into mirrors. The ceiling was woven with glass like a spider’s web, and then in the centre of the chamber was column after column of mirrored glass, as beautiful as columns on a Roman temple. When you got closer still you could see, encased in the glass, the Monster’s treasures that must have been stolen from generation after generation of poor Viking amber-collectors. The Monster must have attacked Romans too, for there were gorgeous Roman silver cups floating in the columns like flies in amber. And speaking of amber, there was quantities and quantities of the stuff studded in the glass columns, the colour of honey, the colour of gold, the colour of fire, some with little creatures stuck in the golden liquid. But Hiccup ran through that maze without even stopping, guided all the way by the squiggles on Grimbeard’s map and his own gut. It was very confusing, just as confusing as looking into the eyes of a Triple-Header Deadly Shadow, for some of the columns were glass and some were mirror, and it was very difficult to tell what was see-through and what was a reflection. On he slipped and slid through that sliding