第五章:被吸血间谍龙咬伤(13)
Fishlegs hit him again and again and again.
‘Stop!’ said Hiccup, grabbing Fishlegs’s arms. ‘STOP!’
Fishlegs finally stopped. The red rash of anger disappeared from his face and he dropped his arms.
There is something truly dreadful about this war, thought Hiccup, in weary horror. It had made even gentle, un-warlike Fishlegs, who wanted to be a bard, actually strike Snotlout in anger.
‘Snotlout would kill us, wouldn’t he? He has tried to kill you, on many occasions,’ said Fishlegs flatly. ‘You can’t be weak, Hiccup. You can’t give him so many second chances.’
‘That is the way that Alvin and the witch talk,’ said Hiccup, flushed because he felt so guilty about Camicazi, and yet with a horrible suspicion that Fishlegs might be right. ‘You have to give people a chance.’ He was still holding on to Fishlegs’s arms. ‘You have to keep on giving people a chance.’