14 Camicazi’s Escape Plans

14. CAMICAZI'S ESCAPE PLANS For the next week Hiccup sat by the barred window looking out for his father's War Party. Toothless came and sat on Hiccup's head. This was a familiar ritual to both of them, as it was Toothless's usual seat when Hiccup was dragonwatching at the Wild Dragon Cliff. Hiccup would draw and write in his Dragonese book, while Toothless perched on his head, one eye shut, the other half open, watching out for careless rabbits or small mice that he could catch. They could sit there for hours in

14. 卡米卡齐的逃跑计划下个星期小嗝嗝坐在铁栏窗边，望着外面他父亲的战争队。 无牙走过来坐在小嗝嗝的头上。 这对他们俩来说都是一个熟悉的仪式，因为这是小嗝嗝在野龙崖看龙时无牙的座位。 小嗝嗝会在他的龙本子上画画和写字，而无牙则坐在他的头上，一只眼睛闭着，另一只眼睛睁着，小心翼翼地抓着粗心大意的兔子或小老鼠。 他们可以在那里坐上几个小时

happy, companionable silence. Now they sat looking out the window, searching, searching, for the boats that were not there. They were being held in a barred tower room high in the air. The one good thing about being held prisoner was that they didn't have to go outside. Because outside it was raining. Not your ordinary, average kind of spitty little rain, but rain such as you only really get in the Barbaric Archipelago, one

快乐，友善的沉默。 现在他们坐在那里望着窗外，寻找，寻找，寻找那些不在那里的小船。 他们被关在高高的塔顶上一间有栅栏的房间里。 被囚禁的一个好处是他们不需要出去。 因为外面在下雨。 不是那种普通的小雨，而是那种只有在野蛮群岛才会有的雨

of the wettest places on this good green earth. For the whole week it rained as if the sky above was one big endless bucket of water, pouring down without stopping on the poor souls beneath. The Romans are excellent travellers, but they are not used to this kind of weather. Nobody is. Hiccup watched with interest from his tower window high above as the soldiers' training grounds turned into one big puddly mess of black mud. The Consul's heated swimming baths overflowed into the horses' exercise yards. The kitchens were knee deep in water. Even the Tower itself seemed to sink a few centimetres as its foundations softened and oozed. The one good thing about the rain was that it silenced the screeching dragons being held prisoner in the giant cages down below. Dragons tend to sleep through rain. Their skin is waterproof, so they put up

这片美丽的绿色大地上最潮湿的地方。 整整下了一个星期的雨，好像天上是一大桶没完没了的水，不停地倾泻在下面可怜的人们身上。 罗马人是优秀的旅行者，但他们不习惯这种天气。 没有人是。小嗝嗝从高高的塔楼窗口饶有兴趣地看着士兵们的训练场变成了一大片黑泥。 领事的温水浴池溢出了马匹的训练场。 厨房里的水深及膝盖。 甚至塔本身似乎也下沉了几厘米，因为它的地基变软了。 这场雨的一个好处是，它让那些被囚禁在下面巨大笼子里的尖叫的龙安静了下来。 龙喜欢在雨中睡觉。 他们的皮肤是防水的，所以他们穿上了

their wings like umbrellas, and sleep underneath them. Inside the Tower room, although it was bare, it was at least dry. The young Vikings were allowed to keep their swords and shields to practise for their appearance in the arena on Saturn's day Saturday. A soldier brought them food every day. There was lots of it, although it was all a bit too rich for Hiccup's liking. Pig stuffed with dormice stuffed with baby frogs carbonara and oysters fried in cream is a bit of an acquired taste. They all refused to eat it when it was fried dragon pie or Common-or-Gardens in batter. Toothless hardly ate at all. Hiccup tried to persuade him but Toothless put his nose up. 'Roman f-f-food YUCKY,' he said. 'Too much g- g-garlic. Want some good f-f-fish. Want mackerel.' Camicazi carried on with her escape plans. They were all completely crazy. For the first one she persuaded Hiccup and Fishlegs to help her knit their waistcoats into two ropes and she attached one end of a rope to a fish head and the other to one of the bars in the window. She then spent three nights in a row throwing the fish head out the window, hoping for a passing dragon to catch it. Finally her patience was rewarded when it

它们的翅膀像雨伞，在伞下睡觉。 在塔楼的房间里，虽然空空如也，但至少是干燥的。 年轻的维京人被允许保留他们的剑和盾，为周六土星日在竞技场上亮相做准备。 一个士兵每天给他们送食物。 里面有很多，虽然有点太丰富了，Hiccup不喜欢。 睡鼠填猪，小青蛙填碳水干酪和奶油煎牡蛎是一种后天养成的味道。 当它是油炸龙派或普通或花园面糊时，他们都拒绝吃。 无牙几乎什么也没吃。 小嗝嗝想劝他，可是无牙翘起了鼻子。 “罗马食物真他妈恶心，”他说。 “大蒜太多了。”想吃点好吃的鱼。 希望鲭鱼。卡米卡齐继续执行她的逃跑计划。 他们都完全疯了。 第一次，她说服小嗝嗝和鱼腿帮她把他们的马甲编成两根绳子，她把绳子的一端系在鱼头上，另一端系在窗户上的一根栏杆上。 然后，她连续三个晚上把鱼头扔出窗外，希望一条路过的龙能抓住它。 最后，她的耐心得到了回报

was snapped up by a hungry Gronckle who flew off with it, the rope pulling out the bar in the window before it snapped. Camicazi squirmed out the window and down the rope, which dangled twenty metres above the ground. She held on for as long as she could, but eventually had to let go, and landed on a fat soldier playing dice under an umbrella with a dozen fellow soldiers below. They were then moved to another, supposedly more secure, cell on the ground floor.

被一只饥饿的咕噜鸟叼走了，叼着它飞走了，绳子在断之前把窗户上的铁条拉了出来。 卡米卡齐扭动着身子走出窗户，顺着悬在离地面20米高的绳子往下爬。 她尽可能地坚持了很久，但最终还是不得不放手，落在一个胖胖的士兵身上，他在伞下玩骰子，下面还有十几个战友。 然后他们被转移到另一个据说更安全的底层牢房。

Camicazi wasn't about to give up with this little setback, though. She spent four days tunnelling her way out of their new prison with Hiccup's helmet. Unfortunately the tunnel came out right slap bang in the middle of the Consul's bathroom. A naked Fat Consul screeched for reinforcements and they were moved back to the Tower room again, where the window had been repaired.

不过，卡米卡齐并不打算因为这个小小的挫折就放弃。 她花了四天时间用小嗝嗝的头盔挖地道逃出了他们的新监狱。 不幸的是，隧道正好从领事的浴室中间出来。 一个赤身裸体的胖执政官尖叫着要增援，他们又被送回了塔楼的房间，那里的窗户已经修好了。