18 Searching for Fishlegs

18. SEARCHING FOR FISHLEGS At that moment, Hiccup didn't know why, but Eggingarde's story came into his head. 'Fly east,' Hiccup said, 'to the Evil Reaches… We are looking for a rock shaped like a witch's finger.' The Deadly Shadow flew east. Hiccup did not want to find the rock shaped like a witch's finger, but he had to look. One of those treacherous sea mists was

18. 在那一刻，小嗝嗝不知道为什么，但埃金加德的故事出现在他的脑海里。 “往东飞，”小嗝嗝说，“到邪恶之地去……我们在找一块形状像女巫手指的岩石。”死亡之影向东飞去。 小嗝嗝不想发现那块形状像女巫手指的石头，但他不得不去找。 其中一个危险的海雾是

blowing in from the east, so the dragon had to swoop low over the red sands. For a long time he flew. Surely it was too long for anyone to yacht that far? Looking down over the Deadly Shadow's shining shoulder, Hiccup saw what he dreaded to see. A crooked jagged rock shaped like a witch's finger, pointing upwards to the sky… and a little way away was the speck of a yacht on the sand.

风从东方吹来，所以龙不得不在红色的沙滩上低空俯冲。 他飞了很长一段时间。肯定是太长了，任何人都不能乘游艇走那么远吧？ 从死亡阴影闪闪发光的肩膀上往下看，嗝嗝看到了他害怕看到的东西。 一块歪歪扭扭、锯齿状的岩石，形状像女巫的手指，向上指向天空……不远处，沙滩上有一艘游艇的斑点。

'Down, Shadow! Down!' cried Hiccup in terror. Down they flew, and as they grew closer, Hiccup could see, with a plummeting of his stomach, that the yacht was not upright. It was turned over, on its side. Desperately, he looked to the horizon to the left, to the right, his eyes already blinking with tears. No sign of an untidy daddy-long-legs Fishlegs-figure anywhere. Of course there could not be. Because suddenly the truth broke upon Hiccup, the truth that maybe he had known somewhere, all along. The story that Eggingarde had told him, two nights before. That story about the Monster and the slave-boy? That story was not a story. It was true. And the reason that Eggingarde would have known it to be true, was that she was there… She was there. She was with Fishlegs when the Monster struck, and when that dreadful creature pulled Fishlegs beneath the sand. It explained why she was so fearful, so scared of the Monster but not of anything else. Why she had told him the story as if she had to tell it, to get it off her chest. It explained everything.

“下来,影子!下来!嗝嗝惊恐地叫道。 他们飞下去了，当他们越来越近的时候，嗝嗝的肚子猛地一沉，他看到游艇并没有直立。 它被翻过来了。 他绝望地看了看左边的地平线，又看了看右边的地平线，他的眼睛已经因泪水而闪烁。 没有任何不整洁的长腿爸爸鱼腿的身影。 当然不可能有。 因为突然间，小嗝嗝明白了真相，这个真相也许他早就知道了。 两天前埃金加德给他讲的故事。 那个怪物和奴隶男孩的故事？ 那个故事不是个故事。 这是真的。埃金加德之所以知道这是真的，是因为她在那里……她在那里。 当怪物袭击的时候，她和鱼腿在一起，当那个可怕的家伙把鱼腿拖到沙子下面的时候。 这就解释了她为什么那么害怕，她怕的是怪物，而不是别的什么。 为什么她把这件事告诉了他，好像她必须说出来，把心事一吐为快似的。 它解释了一切。