29 The Enthusiastic Victim

The Enthusiastic Victim Not sorrykins! Sensational! I meant to say sensational," said the beast, slapping itself again. "Slip of the tongues," it said pompously. "Just a little slip of the tongues." "That seems to be happening loads," said Bethany, scowling at the beast. "You're talking like… like you were before your mind came back." "NO, I'M NOT!" said the beast, stamping one of its tiny feet. "I haven't changed at all!

热情的受害者不抱歉！轰动的!我想说的是耸人听闻。”野兽说着，又拍了拍自己。 “口误。”它傲慢地说。 “只是一点口误。” “这种事似乎经常发生，”宝芬妮怒视着那只野兽说。 “你说话的样子就像……就像你头脑恢复之前的样子。” “不，我不是！”野兽跺着一只小脚说。 “我一点也没变！”

So you can get that stupid idea out of your snot-filled head!" "Who said anything about being changed?" said Bethany. "We didn't bring it up," said Ebenezer. "Have you changed, beast?" "ABSOLUTELY NOT!" roared the beast. "Does it look like I've changed to you?" The beast motioned at the chaos and screams in the room. It was enraged when Bethany, Ebenezer, and Claudette did actually have a look—and took their time doing it. "You let the lizard lady go," said Bethany. "While you were talking to us, the scarf slithered off her neck." The lizard lady was croaking and panting for breath. "My name… is… Barbara," she

所以你可以把那个愚蠢的想法从你满是鼻涕的脑袋里赶出来！”“谁说我变了？”宝芬妮说。 “我们没有提出这个问题，”埃比尼泽说。 “你变了吗，野兽？”“绝对不行！”野兽吼道。 “你觉得我变了吗？”野兽对房间里的混乱做了个手势并尖叫起来。 当贝瑟尼、埃比尼泽和克劳德特真的看了一眼时，它被激怒了——而且花了很多时间。 “你放了那个蜥蜴女士，”宝芬妮说。 “你跟我们说话的时候，围巾从她脖子上滑了下来。” 蜥蜴女士在呱呱叫着，喘着气。 “我的名字是……芭芭拉，”她说

croaked. Unfortunately, her croak was too quiet for anyone to hear. "That was an accident!" said the beast. It wiggled its fingers at the scarf. The scarf started wrapping itself around the lizard lady's neck again—until the beast wiggled its fingers once more and let the scarf fall limply to the floor. "And I don't have to prove myself to you!" "You haven't decapitated anyone yet," said Ebenezer, as he looked around at all the screaming yet full-headed neighbors in the room. "In fact—I don't think the Frisbees are low enough to give people so much as a haircut." Lying at the bottom of the canoe in the middle of the sweetshop, Mortimer groaned and stirred. For the first time, Bethany,

呱呱的声音。不幸的是，她的叫声太轻了，没有人能听到。 “那是个意外！”野兽说。 它在围巾上扭动着手指。 围巾又开始绕在蜥蜴女士的脖子上——直到那只野兽又扭动了一下手指，让围巾软绵绵地掉在地上。 “我不需要向你证明我自己！”“你还没砍下任何人的头呢，”埃比尼泽说，他环顾了一下房间里所有尖叫着但脑袋都满了的邻居。 “事实上，我觉得飞盘还没低到让人理发的程度。” 摩梯末躺在糖果店中间的独木舟底下，呻吟着，动着。 这是第一次，宝芬妮

Ebenezer, and Claudette noticed the bandages around the parrot's talons and the ropes tying him up. "Morty's… alive?" rasped Claudette with joy. "Why didn't you eat him?" asked Bethany. "It must have been a right pain tying him up. And those bandages look like the ones you vomited out for Dr. Barnacle. Did you heal Mortimer?" "His blood was making a mess on my pretty kitchen floor," said the beast. "And if you must know, I didn't eat him because I was saving my appetite." Ebenezer laughed at this. The beast treated him to a three-eyed glare that could have frightened the skin off a badger, but Ebenezer didn't stop.

埃比尼泽和克劳德特注意到鹦鹉爪子上的绷带和把它绑起来的绳子。 “莫蒂……还活着？”克劳德特高兴地尖声说。 伯大尼说，你为什么不吃他呢。 “把他绑起来一定很痛。 这些绷带看起来就像你吐出来给。 藤壶。你治好摩梯末了吗？”“他的血弄脏了我漂亮的厨房地板，”野兽说。 “如果你一定要知道的话，我没有吃他，因为我在保存我的胃口。” 埃比尼泽笑了。这头野兽瞪了他三只眼睛，吓得獾都要掉皮了，但埃比尼泽并没有停下来。

"You never save your appetite," said Ebenezer, still chuckling. "You have changed!" "I have NOT changed!" roared the beast. "I'll drink the insides out of that parrot's talons like a sippy cup! I'll wiggle my fingers and chop off the heads of every stupid neighbor here if you want me to." "No!" pleaded Claudette. Ebenezer got to his knees. "Oh please, beast. Don't do it!" The beast smiled. Finally, it was getting the respect it deserved. "Go on then," said Bethany. The beast snapped its head at the brat. "What did you say, snot-brain?" asked the beast. "I said, go on then," said Bethany. She had told enough fibs in her life to be able to spot a

“你从来不节省你的胃口，”埃比尼泽说，仍然咯咯地笑着。 “你变了！”“我没有变！”野兽吼道。 “我要把那只鹦鹉爪子里的内脏像吸管杯一样喝光！”只要你愿意，我可以动动手指，把这里每一个愚蠢邻居的头都砍下来。” “不！”克劳德特恳求道。埃比尼泽跪了下来。 “哦，拜托，野兽。别这么做！”野兽笑了。 终于，它得到了应有的尊重。 “去吧，”宝芬妮说。 那只野兽向那孩子猛咬了一下脑袋。 “你说什么，笨蛋？”野兽问。 “我说了，继续吧，”宝芬妮说。 她一生中撒过太多的小谎，所以能识破一个

liar. "I don't think you have it in you anymore. Prove. Me. Wrong." "I am the builder and destroyer of empires!" spat the beast. "I have done things that would make your puny brain leak out of your ears, and I have vomited cruelty that would cause your jaw to fall to your ankles! I am—" "Yeah, yeah—terrifying, powerful, we get it," said Bethany, rolling her eyes. "Stop threatening to do evil, and just flipping get on with it. If you've got it in you, that is." "FINE!" said the beast. "But remember—you asked for this.…" The beast chomped down the megaphone. It stretched out both of its tiny hands, preparing to decapitate an entire

骗子。“我觉得你已经没有这种能力了。 证明。我。错了。”“我是帝国的建设者和毁灭者！” “我所做的事会使你的小脑袋从耳朵里流出来，我所吐的残忍会使你的下巴掉到脚踝上！”“是啊，是啊，可怕，强大，我们懂的，”宝芬妮翻着白眼说。 “别再威胁要做坏事了，赶紧去做吧。 如果你有这个本事，那就行了。” “很好！”野兽说。“但是记住——这是你要求的。那野兽把扩音器咬了下去。 它伸出两只小手，准备砍下整个人的头