第十五章:“你响了,夫人?”(26)
Hiccup’s heart was doing a happy little jig.
He hadn’t had a great deal of hope for Plan B, but so far, it was working unexpectedly well.
What Hiccup did not realise, at the time, was that the third Alvinsman was not, in fact, an Alvinsman at all.
It was his own mother, Valhallarama.
You see, Camicazi wasn’t the only one who liked to dress up in big blond moustaches.
Valhallarama had crept into Alvin’s war bunker dressed as an Alvinsman, intending to steal the Nine Lost Things in time to meet Hiccup back on the beach on Doomsday Eve.
And she would have done it too, if her son had not unfortunately mistaken her for a real Alvinsman (the blond-moustache disguise in her case was rather good, much better than Camicazi’s, because she had the acreage to carry it off) and given her a big shove in the back that had thrown her into the water.
‘Oh, Hiccup,’ sighed Valhallarama to herself, as she trod water and ‘accidentally’ let off an arrow in the direction of the second Alvinsman, who was firing at the deck of the departing boat. ‘I told you not to leave the underground hideout. I told you to trust me, and I would take care of everything…’