2 A VISIT TO THE FIRE STATION

CHAPTER 2 A VISIT TO THE FIRE STATION Claire's cat, Thor, growled at Kaz and Little John as he strolled beneath them. Claire was still talking with Brynlee on the phone. "Why doesn't Claire's cat like us?" Little John asked. "We never did anything to it." "Well, Cosmo chases him," Kaz pointed out. "Cosmo isn't here. He's downstairs with Claire's grandma," Little John said. Kaz shrugged. "Some solid animals just don't like ghosts very much." "Funny you should mention that, Kaz," Claire said as she tossed her phone onto her bed.

克莱尔的猫托尔在卡兹和小约翰下面散步时，对着他们咆哮。 克莱尔还在和布林利通电话。 “为什么克莱尔的猫不喜欢我们？”小约翰问。 “我们从来没有对它做过任何事情。” “嗯，宇宙在追他，”卡兹指出。 “Cosmo不在这里。他和克莱尔的奶奶在楼下，”小约翰说。 Kaz耸耸肩。“有些固体动物就是不太喜欢鬼。” “卡兹，你提到这件事真有趣。”克莱尔说着把手机扔到床上。

"Brynlee and RJ have a new dog named Sparky. Well, Sparky really belongs to their dad. He's a firefighter, so they got Sparky to be a fire station mascot. Anyway, everything was fine at first. But now there's this room at the fire station that Sparky won't go in. He just stands in the doorway and barks at something in there. No one knows what he's barking at." "Is he barking at a ghost?" Little John asked. "That's what Brynlee and RJ think," Claire replied. "There have been some strange things happening at the fire station, too. Some of the firefighters have heard weird noises during the night. One of them even saw a ghost. That's why Brynlee and RJ want me to come over. They want me to catch the ghost." "I wonder if the ghost is Mom or Pops or Finn," Little John said. Finn was Kaz and Little John's big brother. He got lost in the Outside even before the old schoolhouse was torn down. No one in the family

“Brynlee和RJ有了一只名叫Sparky的新狗。 斯帕奇真的是他们爸爸的。 他是消防员，所以他们让斯帕奇做消防站的吉祥物。 不管怎样，一开始一切都很好。 但现在消防站有个房间是斯帕奇不愿进去的。 他只是站在门口对着里面的什么东西叫。 没人知道他在叫什么。” “他是在对鬼叫吗？”小约翰问。 “这就是Brynlee和RJ的想法，”Claire回答道。 “消防站也发生了一些奇怪的事情。 一些消防队员在夜间听到奇怪的声音。 其中一个甚至看到了鬼。 这就是为什么Brynlee和RJ要我过去。 他们要我去捉鬼。” “我想知道这个鬼魂是妈妈、爸爸还是芬恩，”小约翰说。 芬恩是卡兹和小约翰的哥哥。 甚至在旧校舍被拆除之前，他就在外面迷路了。 家里没有人

knew where he was now. "Where's your water bottle, Claire?" Little John rubbed his hands together. The rubbing made his hands glow. "Not so fast, Little John," Claire said. "We aren't going now. It's almost bedtime. We'll go tomorrow after school." "Aw," Little John groaned. "I'm not sure Little John and I should go then, either," Kaz said. "Why not?" Claire asked. "Yeah. Why not?" Little John asked. The glow faded from his hands. "Because that dog probably doesn't like ghosts," Kaz said. "That's why he barks, right? Who knows what he'll do if two more ghosts show up?" "Yes, but lots of ghosts don't trust people like me," Claire said. "Sparky might not be happy to see you, but I bet the ghost at the fire station would be very happy to see you."

知道他现在在哪儿了。“你的水瓶呢，克莱尔？”小约翰搓着手。 摩擦使他的手发红。 “别着急，小约翰，”克莱尔说。 “我们现在不走。快到睡觉时间了。 我们明天放学后去。” “啊，”小约翰呻吟道。 “我也不确定我和小约翰该不该去。” “为什么不?”克莱尔问道。“是的。 为什么不呢?”小约翰问。 他手上的红晕消失了。 “因为那只狗可能不喜欢鬼，”和子说。 “这就是它叫的原因，对吗？” 要是再来两个鬼，谁知道他会怎么做呢？”“是的，但是很多鬼魂不相信像我这样的人，”克莱尔说。 “斯巴克见到你可能不高兴，但我敢打赌消防站的鬼魂见到你会很高兴。”

"Claire's right," Little John said. "Mom or Pops might swim away from her. But they wouldn't swim away from us." Kaz had to admit that Claire and Little John had a point. "Okay. We'll go," he said finally. "Tomorrow," Claire said again. "After school." Kaz had seen both Brynlee and RJ at Claire's school before, but he'd never seen them together until they stepped out onto their front porch.

“克莱尔说得对，”小约翰说。 “妈妈或爸爸可能会从她身边游开。 但它们不会从我们身边游开。” 卡兹不得不承认克莱尔和小约翰是有道理的。 “好吧。我们去吧。”他最后说。 “明天，”克莱尔又说。 “放学后。”卡兹以前在克莱尔的学校见过Brynlee和RJ，但在他们走到前廊之前，他从未见过他们在一起。

"Those two solids have the same hair and the same face," Little John said as he and Kaz hovered inside Claire's water bottle. Beckett and Cosmo were back at the library. "They're twins," Kaz said. "It's cool that you live so close to the fire station," Claire said to the twins. "Isn't it right around the corner?" "There's a shortcut through our backyard," Brynlee and RJ said at the same time. They looked

“这两个固体有同样的头发和同样的脸，”小约翰说，他和卡兹在克莱尔的水瓶里徘徊。 贝克特和科斯莫回到了图书馆。 “他们是双胞胎，”卡兹说。 “你们住得离消防站这么近，真是太酷了，”克莱尔对双胞胎说。 “它不是就在拐角处吗？”“在我们的后院有一条捷径，”Brynlee和RJ同时说。 他们看起来

at each other and slapped high fives. "We keep saying the exact same thing—" Brynlee began. "—at the exact same time," RJ finished. "It's a twin thing," Brynlee said. "Cool," Claire said again. "Come on," RJ said, hopping down the porch stairs. "We'll show you the shortcut." They led Claire around the house and through the bushes at the back of the yard. "This is the back of the fire station." Brynlee pointed at the tall brick building. "We can go in that door over there." She ran ahead and opened the door. "Wow!" Kaz said, wide-eyed, as Claire stepped inside the fire station garage. Neither he nor Little John had ever been this close to real fire trucks before. The trucks were so big. So red. So shiny. As soon as the door was closed, the ghosts passed through the side of Claire's water bottle

互相怒目而视，击掌庆祝。 “我们一直在说同样的话——”布林利开始说。 “——就在同一时间。”RJ说完。 “这是一对双胞胎，”布林利说。 “酷，”克莱尔又说。 “走吧。”RJ说着，跳下门廊的楼梯。 “我们会告诉你近路的。” 他们领着克莱尔在房子里转了一圈，穿过后院的灌木丛。 “这是消防站的后面。” 布林利指着那座高大的砖砌建筑。 “我们可以从那边那扇门进去。” 她跑到前面，打开了门。 “哇!”卡兹睁大眼睛说，这时克莱尔走进了消防站的车库。 他和小约翰以前都没有这么接近过真正的消防车。 卡车太大了。所以红色。 所以闪亮。门一关上，鬼魂就从克莱尔的水瓶边穿过