12-第五章:前往明日岛(7)
5. GETTING TO TOMORROW
‘We have to get to the island that the Wodensfang was talking about, Hogfly… The island that is called Yesterday or Tomorrow or something,’ said Hiccup, checking with trembling fingers to see whether the Wodensfang was awake. ‘And we’ve got to get there FAST. ‘Wake up, Wodensfang! Wake up! Please wake up!’ whispered Hiccup, desperately tickling the Wodensfang behind the ears, under the arms, but no, the Wodensfang snored on, extraordinarily loudly for such a small and elderly dragon. ‘OK, he’s not waking up. Hogfly, I’m afraid we’re going to have to do this on our own. But that’s OK, right? We can do it, can’t we? Only, we’ve not got much time…
’ said Hiccup, hurriedly putting the Wodensfang back in his backpack. Hiccup’s left side was feeling a little less numb, and his brain seemed to have cleared a little, like the mist lifting all around them. There is nothing like MORTAL DANGER to clear the mind. Right. He staggered swiftly towards the sleeping Spydragon, who was snoring almost as loudly as the
Wodensfang. This was going to be painful, but Hiccup had to do it. He held his forearm up to the Spydragon’s snoring jaws, averting his eyes because he didn’t want to see what would happen next. ‘Ow!’ The two teeth lifted out of Hiccup’s forearm with a most repellent sucking noise and slid, like magnets, back into the two gaps in the Spydragon’s mouth. Even
‘We have to get to the island that the Wodensfang was talking about, Hogfly… The island that is called Yesterday or Tomorrow or something,’ said Hiccup, checking with trembling fingers to see whether the Wodensfang was awake. ‘And we’ve got to get there FAST. ‘Wake up, Wodensfang! Wake up! Please wake up!’ whispered Hiccup, desperately tickling the Wodensfang behind the ears, under the arms, but no, the Wodensfang snored on, extraordinarily loudly for such a small and elderly dragon. ‘OK, he’s not waking up. Hogfly, I’m afraid we’re going to have to do this on our own. But that’s OK, right? We can do it, can’t we? Only, we’ve not got much time…
’ said Hiccup, hurriedly putting the Wodensfang back in his backpack. Hiccup’s left side was feeling a little less numb, and his brain seemed to have cleared a little, like the mist lifting all around them. There is nothing like MORTAL DANGER to clear the mind. Right. He staggered swiftly towards the sleeping Spydragon, who was snoring almost as loudly as the
Wodensfang. This was going to be painful, but Hiccup had to do it. He held his forearm up to the Spydragon’s snoring jaws, averting his eyes because he didn’t want to see what would happen next. ‘Ow!’ The two teeth lifted out of Hiccup’s forearm with a most repellent sucking noise and slid, like magnets, back into the two gaps in the Spydragon’s mouth. Even