第五章:被吸血间谍龙咬伤(10)
‘Why did we listen to your cries for help? You probably gave her to the witch’s Spydragon! And you,’ shouted Fishlegs, ‘are not worth even a tenth of that girl!’
Snotlout said nothing. His face was in darkness, but perhaps there was a quivering in his fingers when Fishlegs said he was not worth a tenth of Camicazi.
But then again, perhaps not. ‘That little Bog-Burglar?’ he drawled. ‘Come on, she’s only a Bog-Burglar after all…’
It was as if Snotlout was deliberately trying to provoke them.
That was when Fishlegs really lost his temper.
Snotlout had bullied Fishlegs all his life. Anybody who has been bullied knows what that is like. Fishlegs had spent all of his first ten years in pure fear, too terrified to go out the door of his lonely little hut, in case he got caught by Snotlout and his bullying sidekick, Dogsbreath the Duhbrain, who would hit him, and kick him, and take no notice if he pleaded or cried.