12-第四章：更大的麻烦(17)

not continue,’ said Valhallarama, that great Hero, her stern cliff like face refusing to show her grief. ‘Hiccup was right to release the Dragon Furious, and you were right not to follow tradition. There are some Questions, some battles, some Hiccups that are worth losing a world for. ‘And perhaps even when all ends in disaster, you cannot do the wrong thing, if you do it out of love.’ ‘That is true, Valhallarama,’ said Stoick, taking some small comfort from this, and standing a little straighter, with some of his old Chiefly spirit. ‘I did do the right thing, didn’t I? Our beloved Hiccup may have died and nothing will ever take that grief away, but he was a very great Hero, was he not?’ ‘He was,’ Valhallarama agreed. ‘I can still see Hiccup now,’ sighed Stoick proudly. ‘In that terrible Prison Darkheart, standing in front of Alvin and shouting: “Is it perfect to have humans and dragons dying in chains? Are creatures as beautiful as this to be made extinct for all time? Are we to say goodbye forever to the magic and the dreaming and the flying of our childhoods? I say NO!”’