6 Frankensquid

FRANKENSQUID

FRANKENSQUID

Stink glanced at the clock. Uh-oh. It was getting closer and closer to the sleep part of the sleepover. Miss D. turned out the lights in the rotunda. Glow-in-the-dark stars were hanging from the domed ceiling, making it look like a night sky. "D is for Dark?" Sophie asked Miss D. "Miss Darkness?" Miss D. shook her head no. Miss D-is-not-for- Darkness took out her laptop and projected some flames up on the wall. The flames flickered and popped and glowed. "It looks like a real campfire!" said Webster. Miss D. shook a spray can and gave the air a few tiny squirts. "I smell nature," said Riley. "I smell Christmas trees," said Sophie. "I smell s'mores," said Webster. "It's pine forest mist air freshener," said Miss D.

臭臭看了一眼钟。 哦。现在离过夜派对的睡眠部分越来越近了。 d小姐关掉了圆形大厅里的灯。 在黑暗中发光的星星悬挂在圆顶的天花板上，使它看起来像一个夜空。 “D代表黑暗？”索菲问D小姐。 “黑暗小姐?”d小姐摇了摇头。 D-is-not-for- Darkness小姐拿出她的笔记本电脑，在墙上投射了一些火焰。 火焰忽明忽暗，噼里啪啦地闪烁着。 韦伯斯特说：“这看起来就像一个真正的营火！” d小姐摇晃着一个喷雾罐，在空气中喷了几滴。 “我闻到了大自然的味道，”莱利说。 “我闻到了圣诞树的味道。”苏菲说。 “我闻到了s'mores的味道，”韦伯斯特说。 “这是松林雾空气清新剂，”D小姐说。

"It smells like a real campfire!" said Stink. Everybody sat in a circle around a virtual campfire (battery-operated candles). They pretended to roast (real) marshmallows over the (pretend) fire. Before long, Sophie started to slump. Webster's eyelids started to droop. "Guys!" said Stink. "You can't fall asleep yet. You have to stay awake for midnight snack at ten o'clock. Waffles!" Stink tried to think of something that would keep them awake. He saw a door just off the ramp to Sharks Ahoy that said KEEP OUT. "What's behind that door?" Stink asked Miss D. "Don't you know?" Miss D. asked in an almostwhisper. "Tell us!" everybody said, perking right up. "Tell us, tell us, tell us." "This is the story about a creature who lived right here in this very aquarium. See that dark, empty tank? That was her home, once upon a time." "Her who?" everybody asked. "They called her Bloody Mary. She was a vampire squid."

“闻起来像真的篝火！”臭臭说。 每个人都围坐在一个虚拟的篝火（电池供电的蜡烛）周围。 他们假装在（假装的）火上烤（真的）棉花糖。 没过多久，索菲就开始萎靡不振了。 韦伯斯特的眼皮开始下垂。 “伙计们！”臭臭说。“你还不能睡着。 你必须保持清醒，在10点吃夜宵。 华夫饼!”臭臭想办法让他们保持清醒。 他看见通往大鲨鱼大道的斜坡边上有一扇门，上面写着“请勿入内”。 “那扇门后面是什么？”D小姐问道。 “你不知道吗？”d小姐几乎用耳语的声音问道。 “告诉我们！”每个人都兴奋起来。 “告诉我们，告诉我们，告诉我们。” “这个故事讲的是生活在这个水族馆里的一种生物。 看到那个又黑又空的水箱了吗？ 那是她从前的家。” “她是谁？”大家都问。 他们叫她血腥玛丽。 她是一只吸血乌贼。”

"Oooh." "Bloody Mary had dripping red tentacles, glowing red eyes, and she lurked at the very way bottom of the deepest, darkest ocean tank. She was a creature the color of blood." "Is this true?" asked Riley. "Vampire squids are strange monsters of the deep. What do you think Bloody Mary ate?" "Fish?" asked Olivia. "Shark meat?" asked Hannah. "Hermit crabs?" asked Riley. "Only if they were dead. Bloody Mary ate only dead and rotting things— eyes and legs and tails and poop, carcasses and corpses, and snot and other gunk that sank to the bottom of her tank." "Is that true?" asked Riley. "Cross my heart," said Miss D. "Vampire squids have two long filaments like arms, which they use to reach out and grab dead stuff floating in the sea. Then they slime it with mucus and eat it all in one gulp."

“噢。”“血腥玛丽有滴血的红色触手，闪闪发光的红色眼睛，她潜伏在最深、最黑暗的海底。 她是一个血色的生物。” “这是真的吗？” “吸血乌贼是深海里奇怪的怪物。 你觉得血腥玛丽吃了什么？”“鱼？”奥利维亚问。 “鲨鱼肉？”汉娜问。 “寄居蟹？”莱莉问。 “除非他们死了。血腥玛丽只吃死的和腐烂的东西——眼睛、腿、尾巴、便便、尸体、鼻涕和其他沉到鱼缸底部的黏液。” “是真的吗？”莱莉问。 “我发誓，”D小姐说。 “吸血乌贼有两条像手臂一样的长丝，它们用来伸出手抓住漂浮在海里的死东西。 然后它们用黏液把它弄脏，一口气吃完。”

"Stink," said Riley. "Would you rather get squeezed by a giant Pacific octopus or get slimed by a vampire squid?" "Shh!" said Stink. "Then one night— they say it happened during a sleepover—" "Like this one?" asked Webster. "On a night not unlike tonight, Bloody Mary stretched out her long filaments to grab some yummy fish eyes and zap! ZZZZZ! She stuck a filament into an electrical outlet outside the tank, and she was changed forever." "What happened?" Sophie asked. "Frankensquid! She grew two heads, multiple arms, and opened only one eye. True to her

“臭。”莱莉说。“你是愿意被一只巨大的太平洋章鱼挤压，还是被一只吸血乌贼黏在身上？”“嘘！”臭臭说。 “后来有一天晚上——据说是在别人家过夜时发生的——”“就像这次吗？”韦伯斯特问。 “在一个和今晚一样的夜晚，血腥玛丽伸出她长长的丝线，抓住一些美味的鱼眼，然后猛扑过去！”ZZZZZ !她把一根灯丝插在水箱外的电源插座上，然后她就永远地改变了。” “发生什么事了?”苏菲问。 “Frankensquid !她长出了两个头，多条胳膊，却只睁开了一只眼睛。 忠于她