Chapter 9

CHAPTER NINE A few minutes later, Ariana was back outside the cave, balancing on the rocky footholds and clinging on with one hand. In the other, she held the collapsible fishing net she'd packed. She'd extended the pole to its limit and it was now several metres long. "What are you doing?" Rosa shouted. "Ariana, have you gone nuts?" yelled Matilda. "You can't fish up there!" Ariana ignored them. "Whisper! Are you holding tightly?" she shouted up the cliff. "Yes!" Whisper whinnied. "When are you

第九章几分钟后，阿利安娜回到了山洞外面，在岩石脚下保持平衡，一只手紧紧抓住。 另一只手拿着她打包好的可折叠渔网。 她把杆子伸到极限，现在已经有几米长了。 “你在干什么？”罗莎喊道。 “阿利安娜，你疯了吗？”玛蒂尔达喊道。 “你不能在那儿钓鱼！”阿利安娜没有理睬他们。 “嘘!你抓牢了吗？”她对着悬崖喊道。 “是的!”耳语嘶叫。“你什么时候？”

coming back?" "In a moment– I hope. But first I have to do this. Hold tight for me!" Taking a deep breath and trusting Whisper with her whole heart, she let go of the handhold and swung the net inside the cave. She swiped it along the blue rain seeds, scooping them up. As she pulled the net back, the river came crashing through the opening, its spray drenching her from head to toe as it fell in a glittering, sparkling sheet into the pool below. "Oh no!" gasped Ariana as she heard her friends' screams of suprise as the water cascaded down. Their screams turned into shrieks of delight as they started splashing around in the rapidly filling pool with their unicorns. "The river's flowing again!" cried Rosa. "The waterfall is back!" shouted Freya. Feeling a rush of relief, Ariana folded up the net, put the rain seeds in her pocket and started

会回来吗?”“等一会儿吧——我希望。 但首先我得做这个。 抓紧我！”她深吸了一口气，全心全意地信任Whisper，放开了把手，把网甩进了洞里。 她沿着蓝色的雨籽扫了一下，把它们捞了起来。 当她把网拉回来时，河水从开口冲了进来，水花从她的头到脚都湿透了，像一张闪闪发光的床单一样落入下面的池塘里。 “哦，不！”阿利安娜喘着气说，她听到朋友们在水倾泻而下时惊讶地尖叫。 当他们开始在迅速填满独角兽的水池里戏水时，尖叫声变成了喜悦的尖叫。 “河水又流起来了！”罗莎叫道。 “瀑布回来了！”弗雷娅喊道。 阿利安娜如释重负，她收起网，把雨籽放进口袋，出发了

to climb back up the cliff. By the time she reached Whisper, she was shaking with relief and could barely untie the rope from around her waist. She leaned against him and he nuzzled her, his breath drying her damp skin. "What happened? Are you OK?" he demanded. "Yes, I'm fine," she said, hugging him. She quickly told him what had happened. "You're so brave!" he told her, his eyes round with awe. "You saved the waterfall and made it flow again!" Ariana smiled. "Come on, let's go and tell the others," she said. When Whisper and Ariana reached the pool, it had filled completely. A stream was flowing away from it again, carrying the clean magic water off through the trees for all the animals in the woods to drink.

爬回悬崖。 当她到达Whisper时，她松了一口气，浑身发抖，几乎解不开缠在腰上的绳子。 她靠在他身上，他用鼻子蹭她，他的呼吸吹干了她潮湿的皮肤。 “发生了什么事?你还好吗？”他问道。 “是的，我很好，”她拥抱着他说。 她很快告诉他发生了什么事。 “你真勇敢！”他对她说，眼睛里充满了敬畏。 “你拯救了瀑布，让它又流动起来了！”阿笑了。 “来吧，我们去告诉其他人，”她说。 当Whisper和Ariana来到池塘时，池塘已经完全满了。 又有一条小溪从那里流出来，带着干净的魔法水穿过树林，供森林里所有的动物饮用。

"OK, you have some serious explaining to do!" said Rosa as the girls and their unicorns waded out to greet Ariana and Whisper. "What

“好了，你得好好解释一下！”罗莎说，这时姑娘们和她们的独角兽纷纷出来迎接阿利安娜和Whisper。 “什么

do you think you were doing climbing down a cliff, swinging from a rope, disappearing into a cave…?" "It was nothing," said Ariana modestly. "It was so! She was amazing," said Whisper proudly. He told the others what Ariana had done. "Rain seeds," breathed Freya. "I've heard about them." Ariana pulled the bright blue seeds out of her pocket. "They were what was causing all the problems. Someone must have wanted to send the river somewhere else." "But why?" said Violet. "To use its magic in some way, I guess?" suggested Freya. "I wonder who it was." "We'll have to tell the teachers about this, but, wow," Rosa shook her head, "you saved the day, Ariana." "With a fishing net!" said Matilda, her eyes wide.

你以为你是在从悬崖上爬下来，在绳子上荡来荡去，然后消失在一个山洞里……”“没什么。”阿利安娜谦虚地说。 “就是这样！”她太棒了，”Whisper自豪地说。 他把阿利安娜做的事告诉了其他人。 “雨水种子。”弗雷娅轻声说。 “我听说过他们。”阿利安娜从口袋里掏出亮蓝色的种子。 “他们是造成所有问题的原因。 一定是有人想把这条河送到别的地方去。” “可是为什么呢？”维奥莱特问。“以某种方式使用它的魔法，我猜？”弗雷娅建议道。 “我想知道是谁。”“我们得把这件事告诉老师们，但是，哇，”罗莎摇了摇头，“你挽救了局面，阿利安娜。” “用渔网！”玛蒂尔达说，眼睛睁得大大的。

"I told you all the things I had might come in useful!" said Ariana. "I'm really sorry I teased you for having such a big rucksack now!" Matilda said. "Me too," said Rosa. "It was really clever of you." Ariana grinned. "Just call me Little Miss Organised." "You're brilliant! No one is ever allowed to tease you for being organised again!" Rosa declared. The unicorns whinnied in agreement. Ariana felt as if she was glowing inside. "That's OK. I don't mind being teased." She meant it. As she looked around at her friends' happy faces, she suddenly realised that, for the first time, she really felt part of the dorm– part of a team. Violet hugged her. "Oh, sorry," she said as she looked at the mud she'd just left on Ariana. She giggled happily. "Oh dear, I guess we all look like mud monsters today!"

“我告诉过你我所有的东西可能都有用！” “我真的很抱歉，我取笑你现在背着这么大的背包！”玛蒂尔达说。 “我也是，”罗莎说。“你真聪明。” 阿笑了。“就叫我有条理的小小姐吧。” “你真聪明!再也不许别人取笑你有条理了！”罗莎说。 独角兽们发出一致的呜呜声。 阿利安娜觉得自己的内心在发光。 “没关系。我不介意被取笑。” 她是认真的。当她看着周围朋友们快乐的脸庞时，她突然意识到，这是她第一次真正感觉到自己是宿舍的一部分，是一个团队的一部分。 维奥莱特拥抱了她。“哦，对不起。”她看着刚才留在阿利安娜身上的泥巴说。 她高兴地咯咯笑着。“哦，天哪，我想我们今天看起来都像泥怪！”