第二十五章：我不觉得我死了...(9)

They were just in time, as it happens, for the tunnel had one little loop that the sea had not yet covered. Once the tide covered it and the tunnel was entirely underwater, they would not have been able to break the tunnel without the ocean rushing in and drowning them. But there it was, one lovely little loop that was surrounded only by pure air. Hiccup broke the tunnel with his axe, and carefully they climbed over the broken shards and into the surrounding ocean. It was cold, that sea. As they looked around them, they were just two little heads bobbing beside the broken tunnel in the middle of a vast expanse of ocean. Sea, sea, sea, as far as the eye could see…