第三十一章（终章）：秘密藏身处(10)

‘Nonsense and fiddlesticks,’ replied the Wodensfang. ‘You are young. Leave these worries to us old creatures. I trust you, Hiccup. Besides, don’t forget, Alvin the Treacherous doesn’t have ALL the Lost Things… You still have one of them, one that you have always been able to hang on to.’ He pointed with his wing at Toothless.
Toothless was fast asleep, curled up reassuringly warm and solid and heavy and alive on Hiccup’s tummy, and snoring great grey smoke rings. So he made them both jump when he said loudly and clearly in his sleep: ‘Yes, I’m a Lost Thing… and I’m the most important one of all… Thank you… Manners…’ That made both Hiccup and the Wodensfang laugh, and Hiccup fell asleep at last. But it was the Wodensfang who could not sleep now. Eventually he flew to the entrance of the cave, and curled into a little wrinkled ball, looking up at the night sky. ‘I have to confess,’ said the Wodensfang to the stars, ‘this is worrying me a trifle, too. What can I do to prevent this from happening? Am I right in trusting the boy?’ It didn’t seem possible that a world without dragons could ever exist. Look at the world, filled with dragons everywhere, dragons of all shapes and sizes. The great ones, larger than the Big Blue Whale, half- swimming, half-flying through the oceans. The tiny little nanodragons hopping through the heather in their numberless multitudes. The cliffs and their mazy rocks beneath just teeming, bursting, over-flowing with the