15 OUR LAST HOPE

I cradled the forest rose blossom in my hands on our way back to the barn. "You're right, Pip, this does smell a billion times better than the perfume." I took a deep breath. "It's basically the best smell in the world." Sassafras chattered in agreement. I walked around a patch of squishy mud. "So, I was thinking, what if I use whole petals instead of mashing them up and squeezing the oil onto cotton balls? That way, if this doesn't work, we could still feed it to a baby hippogriff."

在回谷仓的路上，我把那朵森林玫瑰捧在手里。 “你说得对，匹普，这确实比香水好上十亿倍。” 我深吸了一口气。“它基本上是世界上最好的气味。” 檫树叽叽喳喳地表示同意。 我绕着一块黏糊糊的泥走着。 “所以，我在想，如果我用整片花瓣，而不是把它们捣碎，然后把油挤在棉球上，会怎么样？” 这样的话，如果这行不通，我们仍然可以把它喂给一只小鹰头马身有翼兽。”

"It's going to work. It's got to! But that's good thinking," Pip said. I opened the barn door and saw Mom inside. She was setting up a giant container with all the bips we had so far, making sure the sunlight and water level matched what had been successful with my experiments. Mom turned to me and handed me a pair of sunglasses. "Just in case this works as well as we think it might." She put some on herself. Then she gave Pip and Sassafras a pair of Dad's sunglasses, and they squished together behind the glasses. "Come on, forest rose," I said, and I placed it in the center of the container near a small group ofbips. Sounds of bip bip bip bip bip filled the barn! Spurts of light filled the container… and the container filled with bips. "YESSSS!!!!" we all shouted at once. Pip gave me a hug. "Just in time, Zoey! You did it!" "We all did it!" I said and hugged him back. "Let's get these bips to the forest!" Mom said and passed us each some smaller containers. She

“它会起作用的。必须的！但这是个好主意，”皮普说。 我打开谷仓的门，看见妈妈在里面。 她正在搭建一个巨大的容器，里面装着我们目前收集到的所有设备，确保阳光和水位与我的实验成功的情况相符。 妈妈转向我，递给我一副太阳镜。 “以防万一它像我们想象的那样有效。” 她给自己涂了一些。然后她给了皮普和萨萨法斯一副爸爸的太阳镜，他们在眼镜后面挤在一起。 “来吧，森林玫瑰。”我说，然后把它放在容器的中央，靠近一小群鱼。 谷仓里充满了砰砰砰砰的声音！一缕缕光填满了容器，容器里装满了人。 “是的！！！！”我们一起喊道。 匹普给了我一个拥抱。“来得正是时候，佐伊！”你做到了！”“我们都做到了！”我说着也拥抱了他。 “让我们把这些东西带到森林里去吧！”妈妈说着，递给我们每个人一些较小的容器。 她

even had a tiny waist pack so Sassafras could help carry them. We gently scooped as many bips as we could fit into our containers and headed to the forest.

甚至有一个小的腰包，所以檫树可以帮助携带它们。 我们轻轻地舀起尽可能多的髋部，装进我们的容器，然后向森林走去。