13 DO WE HAVE A DEAL

CHAPTER 13 DO WE HAVE A DEAL? Kaz followed the tunnel around a corner. There, in front of him, was the very same ghost boy that he and Little John had chased through the library yesterday. Unfortunately, Little John wasn't with him. The ghost boy hugged his knees to his chest and sobbed. "Hello?" Kaz said gently. He didn't want to scare the boy the way Little John had. The boy stopped crying for a second. He looked up at Kaz, and his eyes widened. He started to swim away.

第13章我们成交了吗？ 卡兹沿着隧道拐了个弯。 站在他面前的，正是他和小约翰昨天在图书馆里追逐的那个鬼男孩。 不幸的是，小约翰没有和他在一起。 鬼男孩把膝盖抱在胸前抽泣。 “喂?”卡兹温柔地说。他不想像小约翰那样吓到那个男孩。 男孩哭了一会儿。 他抬头看着卡兹，眼睛睁得大大的。 他开始游走。

"Wait!" Kaz said, wafting after him. "Don't go. Please don't go." Surprisingly enough, the boy stopped. Kaz drifted a little closer. "What's your name?" he said. "My name's Kaz." "Oliver," the boy said. "Hi, Oliver," Kaz said. "Why are you crying?" Oliver wiped the back of his hand across his face. "I got blown away," he said with a sniff.

“等等!”和子说，跟着他走。 “别走。请不要走。” 令人惊讶的是，男孩停了下来。 卡兹更靠近了一点。 “你叫什么名字？”他说。 “我叫卡兹。”“奥利弗，”男孩说。 “嗨，奥利弗。”卡兹说。“你为什么哭？”奥利弗用手背擦了擦脸。 “我被吹走了，”他闻了闻说。

"Oh no," Kaz said. "From where? Where's your haunt?" Oliver shrugged. "How did you get blown away?" Kaz asked. Oliver shrugged again. "It was an accident," he said. Kaz felt bad for Oliver. "I got separated from my family once, too," he said. "We used to live in this old schoolhouse, but it got torn down and then the wind blew us to different places. But guess what? I found my whole family again!" Now Oliver looked at him with interest. "Unfortunately, I lost my little brother yesterday," Kaz went on. "Do you know where he is? The last time I saw him, well... we were chasing you." "That wasn't very nice of you," Oliver said in a small voice. "We weren't trying to be mean," Kaz said. "We wanted to know why you were crying. We wanted to help."

“哦，不，”卡兹说。“从哪里? 你常去哪里？”奥利弗耸耸肩。 “你是怎么被吹走的？”Kaz问道。 奥利弗又耸了耸肩。“这是个意外，”他说。 卡兹为奥利弗感到难过。“我也曾经和家人走散过一次，”他说。 “我们以前住在这所旧校舍里，但它被拆了，然后风把我们吹到了不同的地方。 但你猜怎么着？我又找到了我的家人！”现在奥利弗饶有兴趣地看着他。 “不幸的是，我昨天失去了我的小弟弟。” “你知道他在哪儿吗？”我最后一次见到他的时候… 我们在追你。”“你这么做可不太好。”奥利弗小声说。 “我们不是想刻薄，”卡兹说。 “我们想知道你为什么哭。 我们想帮忙。”

"How did you find your family when you got lost?" Oliver asked. "A solid girl helped me," Kaz said. He expected Oliver to have questions about that. Whenever Kaz told another ghost about Claire, the ghost always had lots of questions. But the only thing Oliver wanted to know about Claire was, "Can she help me find my family?" "Maybe," Kaz replied. "Probably. But we're leaving in a couple of days and—" "I know what happened to your brother," Oliver interrupted. He sniffed again. "I'll tell you... if your solid friend can find my family. But she has to help me first. Deal?" He held out his hand. What if Claire can't find Oliver's family? Kaz wondered. Well, he didn't have any other options. So he shook Oliver's hand and said, "Deal."

“当你迷路时，你是怎么找到你的家人的？”奥利弗问。 “一个可靠的女孩帮助了我，”和子说。 他料到奥利弗会对此有疑问。 每当卡兹把克莱尔的事告诉另一个鬼魂时，那个鬼魂总会问很多问题。 但奥利弗唯一想知道的关于克莱尔的事情是，“她能帮我找到我的家人吗？”“也许吧，”卡兹回答。 “可能。可是我们再过两天就要走了，而且——”“我知道你哥哥出了什么事，”奥利弗插嘴说。 他又闻了闻。“我告诉你…… 如果你可靠的朋友能找到我的家人。 但她得先帮我。 交易?”他伸出手来。 如果克莱尔找不到奥利弗的家人怎么办？ Kaz很好奇。他也没别的选择了。 于是他握了握奥利弗的手说：“成交。”

"Where's your solid friend right now?" Oliver asked. "Her name is Claire," Kaz said. "She was at the Underground, but she's meeting me in the library. Do you know how to get to the library? Do we just swim up through the ceiling?" "Pretty much," Oliver said. "It takes a while, though. Hold your breath and kick as hard as you can. Eventually you'll come out in the parking garage." Oliver took a deep breath and swam up through the dirt ceiling. Kaz did the same thing. Deep breath... then kick, kick, kick, kick, kick through the concrete... kick, kick, kick, kick, kick... kick, kick, kick, kick, kick... oh, how Kaz hated concrete. He was starting to feel skizzy again. But if a little kid ghost like Oliver could swim through it, so could Kaz.

“你的好朋友现在在哪儿？”奥利弗问。 “她叫克莱尔，”卡兹说。 “她在地铁，但她要在图书馆见我。 你知道去图书馆怎么走吗？ 我们就这样从天花板上游上来吗？”“差不多，”奥利弗说。 “不过，这需要一段时间。 屏住呼吸，尽你所能用力踢。 最终你会从停车场出来。” 奥利弗深吸了一口气，游过尘土飞扬的天花板。 卡兹也做了同样的事情。深呼吸…… 然后踢，踢，踢，踢，踢穿混凝土…… 踢，踢，踢，踢，踢…… 踢，踢，踢，踢，踢…… 哦，卡兹多么讨厌混凝土。 他又开始觉得头晕目眩了。 但如果像奥利弗这样的小孩鬼魂都能游过去，卡兹也能。

Kick, kick, kick, pop! He was in the parking garage. Oliver was, too. "Okay. Where's your friend?" Oliver asked as a solid car drove through him. Kaz darted out of the way so the car wouldn't drive through him, too. "We'll meet her and her cousin upstairs," he said. They hadn't actually agreed on a meeting spot. But Kaz had a feeling Claire and Maddie would go to the children's center.

踢，踢，踢，砰！他在停车场。 奥利弗也是。“好吧。你的朋友呢？”奥利弗问道，这时一辆结实的汽车从他身边驶过。 卡兹赶紧闪开，以免车子也从他身上撞过去。 “我们在楼上见她和她的表妹，”他说。 他们实际上并没有就会面地点达成一致。 但是卡兹有一种感觉，克莱尔和麦迪会去儿童中心。