1 A Breakfast Surprise

1 A Breakfast Surprise "I can't believe yesterday was real," Violet Briggs said out loud. Violet crunched on her cereal. She stared out the window. Today seemed like any other day. The sun was shining. She was safe at her kitchen table, eating breakfast. Today wasn't anything at all like yesterday. Yesterday she had met a fairy. A fairy named Sprite. And she had traveled with magic pixie dust. She had saved the world from a tricky pixie named Pix.

“我不敢相信昨天是真的，”维奥莱特·布里格斯大声说。 维奥莱特嘎吱嘎吱地吃着麦片。 她凝视着窗外。 今天和平常没什么两样。 阳光灿烂。她坐在厨房的桌子上吃早饭，很安全。 今天一点也不像昨天。 昨天她遇到了一个仙女。 一个叫雪碧的仙女。她带着魔法仙尘四处旅行。 她从狡猾的小妖精皮克斯手中拯救了世界。

"I still can't believe that all of those things happened," Violet said, shaking her head. Just then, drops of milk splashed in her face. Violet looked down. A tiny fairy sat on the edge of her cereal bowl. He was about as tall as a pencil. He had green skin and shimmering rainbow wings. It was Sprite! "Could I do this if I wasn't real?" Sprite asked. He splashed the milk again with his tiny hand. Violet laughed. "No, I guess not."

“我仍然无法相信所有这些事情都发生了，”维奥莱特摇着头说。 就在这时，牛奶滴在她的脸上。 维奥莱特低下头。一个小仙女坐在她的麦片碗边上。 他大约和铅笔一样高。 他有绿色的皮肤和闪闪发光的彩虹翅膀。 是雪碧！“如果我不是真的，我能这么做吗？”雪碧问道。 他用小手又把牛奶泼了一遍。 紫笑了。“不，我想没有。”

Sprite flew in front of her face. "What about this?" His wings tickled her cheeks. "Okay," Violet said, laughing again. "You're real. But can you tell me again what you're doing here? I'm still kind of confused." Sprite sat back down on the cereal bowl. "Okay. I'm a fairy. I live in the Otherworld. One day, fourteen fairies escaped from our world into your world." "Through the oak tree in my backyard," Violet said.

雪碧在她面前飞舞。 “这个怎么样？”他的翅膀使她的脸颊发痒。 “好吧，”维奥莱特说，又笑了。 “你是真实的。你能再告诉我一遍你在这里做什么吗？ 我还是有点困惑。” 雪碧又坐在麦片碗上。 “好吧。我是仙女。我住在另一个世界。 一天，十四个仙女从我们的世界逃到了你们的世界。” “穿过我家后院的橡树，”维奥莱特说。

"Right," Sprite said. "Then Queen Mab, the fairy queen, came to me. Because I'm a Royal Pixie Tricker. She said I was the only one for the job, even though I'm new at it. And she said I needed an eight-year-old girl to help me do it. And that's you!"

“好的。”雪碧说。“然后，玛布女王，仙女女王，来到我面前。 因为我是御仙师。 她说我是这份工作的唯一人选，尽管我是新手。 她说我需要一个八岁的小女孩来帮我。 那就是你！”

"And our job is to trick the escaped pixies and send them back to the Otherworld, said Violet. "Right again. Just like we tricked Pix," Sprite said. Sprite reached into a small bag around his waist. He took out a tiny book. It was The Book of Tricks. The book told how to trick every fairy. If the trick worked, the fairy's magic stopped. And the fairy would be sent back to the Otherworld. Sprite flipped through the book. "There's something I want to show you," he said. "One second," Violet said. "I need to make some toast." Violet got up and put two slices of bread into the toaster. She pressed down on the lever.

“我们的任务就是骗那些逃跑的小精灵，把它们送回另一个世界。”维奥莱特说。 “对了。就像我们骗了Pix一样，”雪碧说。 雪碧把手伸进他腰上的一个小包里。 他拿出一本小书。那是《魔术书》。 这本书告诉我们如何欺骗每一个仙女。 如果这个把戏成功了，仙女的魔法就会停止。 仙女会被送回另一个世界。 雪碧翻了翻书。 “我想给你看样东西，”他说。 “等一下，”维奥莱特说。 “我需要做一些吐司。” 维奥莱特站起来，把两片面包放进了烤面包机。 她按下杠杆。