第二十四章：红鲱鱼的眨眼（拐弯抹角）(5)

mirror maze, searching, searching, for he knew what he was looking for now. And heart lifting with hope… … he found it. Wonder of wonders. Water into stone. A single glass column, shining, pure as a drop of water. And right in the centre, suspended there as if it were floating, a little higher than Hiccup’s eye level, was the dark red heart, the dark red Jewel…
the Dragon’s Jewel. The Jewel that spelt the destruction of the dragons, and the humans’ only hope. The Jewel was hanging on a necklace, encased in the glass in such a way that it was as if the necklace was hanging on the neck of an invisible ghost. And as Hiccup circled round the column, nose pressed to the glass, his imagination filled in the torso of a gigantic bearded man: Grimbeard the Ghastly. As Hiccup circled the column, he could just make out, on the golden backing of the necklace, the scratched initials: G.G. Hiccup felt in his waistband for Camicazi’s sword. He took it out and took a good aim at the