1. Seven Minutes After Midnight

MARVIN REDPOST 6 A Flying Birthday Cake?

一个会飞的生日蛋糕?

Chapter 1 Seven Minutes After Midnight It was green. Marvin stared up at it. He didn't know what it was. He was lying on his back, in a sleeping bag, in Nick Tuffle's backyard. It glowed as it moved across the night sky. Nick and Stuart were in sleeping bags beside him. They were asleep. Today was Nick's birthday. Or maybe that was yesterday. Marvin didn't know if it was after midnight yet. Seven kids had come to Nick's party, although only Stuart and Marvin got to sleep over.

第一章午夜过后七分钟天是绿色的。 马文抬头盯着它。他不知道那是什么。 他躺在尼克·塔夫尔家后院的一个睡袋里。 它在夜空中闪烁。 尼克和斯图亚特睡在他旁边的睡袋里。 他们都睡着了。今天是尼克的生日。 也许那是昨天的事。 马文还不知道是不是过了午夜。 有七个孩子参加了尼克的聚会，但只有斯图尔特和马文留宿。

But Marvin couldn't sleep. He had eaten too much cake. He had drunk too much punch. The ground was too hard. He heard a low humming noise. The glowing green thing hovered directly above him. He felt the ground shake beneath him. He wondered if he was dreaming. It had to be a dream. Maybe he really had fallen asleep and didn't know it. There was a bright flash, then the thing zoomed away. Marvin could no longer see it, hear it, or feel it. Marvin couldn't fall asleep after that. He stayed up all night, staring at the sky. At least, he thought he stayed up all night. In the morning, he woke up, so he must have fallen asleep sometime. Maybe he was really asleep the whole time. He remembered that Nick's birthday cake was covered with green icing. He must have been dreaming, he decided. Now that he thought about it, the green thing had looked like a flying birthday cake. jmkfho. The candles made it glow …

但是马文睡不着。 他吃了太多蛋糕。 他喝了太多的潘趣酒。 地面太硬了。他听到一阵低沉的嗡嗡声。 那个发光的绿色东西就在他的正上方盘旋。 他感到脚下的地面在震动。 他怀疑自己是不是在做梦。 那一定是个梦。也许他真的睡着了，只是自己不知道。 有一道明亮的闪光，然后那东西迅速飞走了。 马文再也看不见它，听不见它，也感觉不到它了。 从那以后马文就睡不着了。 他整夜没睡，凝视着天空。 至少，他觉得自己熬了一整夜。 早上，他醒了，所以他一定是睡着了。 也许他一直都在睡觉。 他记得尼克的生日蛋糕上覆盖着绿色的糖霜。 他断定自己一定是在做梦。 现在他仔细想想，那个绿色的东西看起来就像一个会飞的生日蛋糕。 蜡烛使它发光……