第二十章：威力蓄须王的最后一曲(17)
But…
Sometimes time cannot tick backwards.
Sometimes you cannot put a dragon back in a forest, nor a witch back in a tree-trunk, nor the breath back into a friend when all the breath has gone.
War really does have terrible consequences.
DOWN to the ocean floor, Snotlout sank swiftly, for he was weighed down by his sword and other weapons.
His limbs spread out like a star, he was flying through the sea, falling and ever falling, like soft snow through the air, into another world.
‘Heroes who die in battle go straight to Valhalla…’ whispered Hiccup.
Snotlout had taken many wrong turns and done many bad things, for he was a boy who had been born out of his time, caught in a world that was changing all around him, and that is always hard.
But it is through our actions that we show who we really are.
In the end Snotlout died nobly, trying to do the right thing in difficult circumstances. And in some ways he would never die, because his name would live on forever.
Sometimes time cannot tick backwards.
Sometimes you cannot put a dragon back in a forest, nor a witch back in a tree-trunk, nor the breath back into a friend when all the breath has gone.
War really does have terrible consequences.
DOWN to the ocean floor, Snotlout sank swiftly, for he was weighed down by his sword and other weapons.
His limbs spread out like a star, he was flying through the sea, falling and ever falling, like soft snow through the air, into another world.
‘Heroes who die in battle go straight to Valhalla…’ whispered Hiccup.
Snotlout had taken many wrong turns and done many bad things, for he was a boy who had been born out of his time, caught in a world that was changing all around him, and that is always hard.
But it is through our actions that we show who we really are.
In the end Snotlout died nobly, trying to do the right thing in difficult circumstances. And in some ways he would never die, because his name would live on forever.
冰九囚笼二十六
