Chapter 7

Chapter 7 "Halt! Who goes there?" Princess Pulverizer stopped at the castle gates and looked up at the thirty two guards.

第七章“停！谁去那儿？”粉碎机公主在城堡门口停了下来，抬头看着三十二个卫兵。

"Princess Serena. I'm leaving." Princess Pulverizer was surprised how much easier the name Serena came to her lips now. "Leaving?" the guard asked. "Do you have permission? King Harvey doesn't like us opening the gates for just anyone." "Why would I need permission to leave?" Princess Pulverizer asked him. "What threat is someone who isn't going to be here anymore?" The guards looked at one another. The princess got the feeling no one had presented them with that idea before. "Fine." The tallest guard pushed open the gate and looked onto the street. "Where's your carriage?" Uh-oh. "I'm... um... walking," Princess Pulverizer said. "My guards and carriage have still not returned." "Princesses don't walk alone at night," the guard insisted.

“公主塞丽娜。我要走了。” 粉碎机公主惊讶地发现，塞蕾娜这个名字现在说到嘴边轻松多了。 “离开？”卫兵问。 “你得到许可了吗？”哈维国王不喜欢我们为任何人打开大门。” “我为什么需要许可才能离开？”普莱丽公主问他。 “一个不在这里的人有什么威胁？”卫兵们面面相觑。 公主觉得以前从来没有人向他们提出过这样的想法。 “很好。”最高的卫兵推开大门，看着街道。 “你的马车呢？”哦。 “我……嗯…走着走着。” “我的卫兵和马车还没有回来。” “公主们晚上是不会单独出门的。”卫兵坚持说。

"This princess does," Princess Pulverizer replied defiantly. "We're not all alike, you know." With that, the princess shot off like a jackrabbit, only stopping when she found a quiet alleyway, far from the castle walls. Princess Pulverizer took a moment to catch her breath, and finally let out a loud nightingale whistle. Then she waited for Dribble and Lucas to come running to her side. And waited. And waited some more. Clink. Clank. The princess heard the sound of armor coming in her direction. Thud. Thud. Thud. The ground began to shake. Gulp. Had the king's knights figured out Princess Pulverizer was a real threat to their plans? Were they coming to stop her? The

“这位公主知道，”普莱泽公主挑衅地回答。 “你知道，我们并不都一样。” 说完，公主像只大野兔一样飞奔而去，直到找到一条远离城墙的安静小巷才停下来。 粉碎机公主喘了口气，最后发出了一声响亮的夜莺哨子。 然后她等着运球和卢卡斯跑到她身边。 等着。又等了一会儿。 发出叮当声。叮当作响。公主听到盔甲的声音朝她这边走来。 砰的一声。砰的一声。砰的一声。地面开始摇晃。 饮而尽。国王的骑士们是否意识到普瓦瑞尔公主对他们的计划构成了真正的威胁？ 他们是来阻止她吗？ 的

princess's heart pounded so hard she thought it might leap out of her chest. Until... "Sorry it took us a while," Dribble apologized as he, Lucas, and Fortune came racing toward her. What a relief! The ground had been shaking under Dribble's weight. And the clinking armor she'd heard belonged to Lucas. "We had trouble with Fortune," Lucas explained. "He wanted a bite of someone's roses, so he stuck his head between the fence posts." "Then he couldn't get his head out," Dribble added. "You're always getting into trouble, aren't you?" Princess Pulverizer said. She petted the unicorn's head. Yuck! "Why is he greasy?"

公主的心怦怦直跳，她想它都要跳出胸腔了。 直到……“对不起，让我们耽搁了一会儿。”运球道了歉，他、卢卡斯和福琼奔向她。 真是松了一口气！地面在运球的重压下一直在晃动。 她听到的盔甲叮当声是卢卡斯的。 “我们在《财富》杂志上遇到了麻烦，”卢卡斯解释道。 “他想咬一口别人的玫瑰，所以他把头伸到栅栏柱之间。” “然后他的头就出不来了。” “你总是惹麻烦，是不是？”粉碎机公主说。 她抚摸着独角兽的头。 讨厌的东西!“他为什么油腻？”

"Butter," Dribble said. "We used it to make him slippery so we could slide him loose." Princess Pulverizer wiped her hands on her red-and-white dress. No need for a napkin here. "It's worse than we thought," she said, getting straight down to business. "The knights don't just want to capture the old unicorn. They want to capture all the unicorns."

“黄油。”运球说。“我们用它让它滑，这样我们就可以把它滑下来了。” 粉碎机公主在红白相间的裙子上擦了擦手。 这里不需要餐巾。 “情况比我们想象的还要糟糕，”她说，然后直接开始谈正事。 “骑士们不只是想抓住老独角兽。 他们想要捕获所有的独角兽。”