Chapter 5

CHAPTER FIVE Cross-country was one of Freya's favourite lessons– she loved galloping and jumping, and Honey loved it too. However, for once she was glad when their lesson finished. If she was going to work on the robot that evening, she needed to get all her homework done during the lunch break. "Come on, Honey, let's get back to the stables as quickly as we can," she urged. "Do we have to?" Honey said. "It's a lovely sunny day. We could go to the play park." "I can't. I need to do my homework," said Freya. "There's no time for homework now," said Rosa, overhearing. "We agreed to go pumpkin

第五章越野是弗雷娅最喜欢的课程之一——她喜欢奔跑和跳跃，霍妮也喜欢。 然而，这一次，当他们的课结束时，她很高兴。 如果那天晚上她要在机器人上工作，她需要在午休时间完成所有的作业。 “来吧，亲爱的，让我们尽快回到马厩里去，”她催促道。 “我们必须这么做吗？”亲爱的说。 “这是一个可爱的晴天。我们可以去游乐场。” “我不能。我需要做作业，”弗雷娅说。 “现在没时间做作业了。”罗莎无意中听到。 “我们同意去南瓜

picking with Miki and Himmat this lunchtime, remember? For the party." Freya groaned inwardly. "Do you really need me? I've got loads to do." "You have to come and help," said Rosa. "The pumpkins are massive and it's going to take all of us to pick them and take them to the stables." "OK," sighed Freya. "As soon as we've settled our unicorns we'll meet at the stable entrance and go to the pumpkin patch," said Rosa, hurrying away. Honey snorted. "Do you have to go, Freya? We hardly see each other at the moment." "You see me lots," Freya said. "Only in lessons. You never visit me the rest of the time. I miss you." Freya felt guilty. "I promise that I'll change that, soon," she said. "I'm just really busy working on my invention." Honey huffed. "I think you like your invention more than you like me." "I don't!" exclaimed Freya. She wished she could tell Honey that the invention was for her.

午餐时间和米琪和希玛特一起捡东西，记得吗？ 为了聚会。”弗雷娅心里呻吟着。 “你真的需要我吗？”我有很多事要做。” “你得过来帮忙，”罗莎说。 “南瓜太大了，我们所有人都得把它们摘下来送到马厩去。” “好吧，”弗雷娅叹了口气。“我们一安顿好独角兽，就在马厩门口集合，然后去南瓜地。”罗莎说着匆匆走开了。 亲爱的哼了一声。“你一定要走吗，弗雷娅？” 我们现在很少见面。” “你经常见到我，”弗雷娅说。 “只在课上。剩下的时间你都不来看我。 我想你了。”弗雷娅感到内疚。 “我保证很快就会改变，”她说。 “我只是在忙我的发明。” 蜂蜜怒喝道。“我觉得你喜欢你的发明胜过喜欢我。” “我不知道！”弗雷娅叫道。 她真希望能告诉霍妮，这个发明是给她的。

It's just a couple more days, she told herself. Then Honey will understand. "Wow! Look at these pumpkins!" said Freya a little while later, as she stared at the sea of massive purple pumpkins in the walled vegetable garden. She picked her way carefully between the pumpkins, trying not to let their curly green tendrils trip her up. Miki stopped beside a huge pumpkin. "Someone help me here." Himmat rushed over and held the pumpkin while Miki cut through its thick spikey stem. Then Freya and Rosa helped them to lift it into Miki's wheelbarrow. Pumpkin picking took much longer than Freya had expected but they had a good haul of pumpkins to show for it. They carted them to the stables in the wheelbarrows.

再过几天就好了，她告诉自己。 然后哈妮就会明白了。 “哇!看这些南瓜！”过了一会儿，弗雷娅凝视着围墙蔬菜园里那大片紫色南瓜的海洋说。 她小心翼翼地从南瓜堆中间走过去，尽量不让它们卷曲的绿色卷须把她绊倒。 美琪在一个巨大的南瓜旁停了下来。 “谁来帮帮我。”希玛特冲过去，拿着南瓜，而美琪则割断了南瓜的粗茎。 然后弗雷娅和罗莎帮他们把它抬到米基的手推车上。 摘南瓜花的时间比弗雷娅预计的要长得多，但他们收获了一大堆南瓜。 他们用独轮车把它们运到马厩。

"Goodness me! What are you going to do with all those?" Ms Willow, the school nurse, came out of her unicorn's stable with some rolls of ribbon in her hands. She was young and pretty and the girls really liked her. She was always fussing over her unicorn, Daffodil, decorating her yellow and orange mane with elaborate plaits or pottering around the gardens with her, gathering

“天哪!你打算怎么处理这些东西？”学校的护士威洛女士从她的独角兽马厩里出来，手里拿着几卷缎带。 她年轻漂亮，女孩子们都很喜欢她。 她总是为她的独角兽“水仙花”操心，用精致的辫子装饰她黄色和橙色的鬃毛，或者和她一起在花园里闲逛，采集食物

herbs to make medicines from. Daffodil had healing magic but Ms Willow liked to use herbal medicines on sick or injured students whenever possible so as not to tire Daffodil out. She really did adore her little unicorn! "We're going to use them to play a game of leapfrog in the small barn, Miss," said Rosa. The others exchanged grins. Rosa had conveniently missed out the vital fact that it was going to be a midnight game! "In the barn?" Ms Willow said in surprise. "Why not outside?" "Just in case it rains," Rosa invented. "It's all right if we play in the barn, isn't it? It's never used for anything." Ms Willow smiled. "It's fine. Enjoy yourselves!" She headed into the tack room. Diamond and Topaz dorm wheeled the pumpkins into the old stone barn and arranged them around the empty space. Their unicorns came out of their stalls to watch. "They're massive!" said Crystal, Rosa's

用来制药的草药。 水仙花有治愈的魔力，但威洛女士喜欢在生病或受伤的学生身上使用草药，以免水仙花疲劳。 她真的很喜欢她的小独角兽！“小姐，我们要用它们在小谷仓里玩跳蛙游戏。”罗莎说。 其他人交换着笑容。 罗莎恰好错过了一个重要的事实，那就是这将是一场午夜比赛！“在谷仓里？”威洛女士惊讶地说。 “为什么不在外面？”“以防下雨，”罗莎说。 “我们在谷仓里玩没关系，是不是？” 它从来没有做过任何事情。” 威洛女士笑了。“这很好。 享受自己!”她走进了马具室。 Diamond和Topaz宿舍把南瓜推到旧的石头谷仓里，把它们摆放在空地上。 他们的独角兽从马厩里出来观看。 “好大啊！”克里斯托说，“罗莎的。

unicorn. Rosa nodded. "They're going to be perfect for playing leapfrog." She tried to leapfrog a huge one and got stuck on top of it. She collapsed to the ground, giggling. Freya suddenly realised Honey hadn't come outside with everyone else. She went to find her. Honey was in her stall, picking at a net of hay.

独角兽。罗莎点点头。“它们将是玩蛙跳游戏的完美选择。” 她试图跳过一个巨大的鱼，却被卡在了上面。 她瘫倒在地，咯咯地笑着。 弗雷娅突然意识到霍妮没有和大家一起出去。 她去找她。霍妮在她的畜栏里，捡着一网干草。