Chapter 3

3 The Mist Rosa woke to find the world covered in white. Mist hovered below Wolf Tor like a thick blanket, rolling and billowing along. Occasional tufts lifted up and drifted past at head height. Stick growled at them angrily. 'It's like being above the clouds!' said Rosa. 'It's very unhelpful' said Nan, rolling up

罗莎醒来时，发现整个世界都被一片白茫茫覆盖着。 雾像一条厚厚的毯子在狼堡下面盘旋，翻滚翻滚。 偶尔有一簇草叶升起，飘到头顶。 棍子生气地对他们咆哮。 “就像在云层之上！”罗莎说。 “这很没用，”南说着，卷起了被子

her damp sleeping bag. Dew had settled on everything overnight and had done nothing for Nan's hair, which was standing on end and even wilder than usual. 'But you get this sort of thing a lot at the coast. It happens when the warm summer air hits the cold sea.' 'How will we find our way?' asked Rosa. 'We'll do our best,' said Nan. She looked up at the sky and found the sun, rising in the east.

她潮湿的睡袋。露水一夜之间就把一切都安顿好了，但对南的头发却毫无影响，她的头发竖了起来，比平时更乱了。 “但这种事在海岸上经常发生。 当夏季温暖的空气碰到寒冷的海洋时，就会发生这种情况。“我们怎样才能找到路呢？”罗莎问。 “我们会尽力的，”南说。 她抬头仰望天空，发现太阳正从东方升起。

'Aim for the sun, and we should find the coast,' she said. 'But we won't see the sun in the mist,' said Rosa. Nan smiled and pulled a little metal compass from her pocket. 'Just in case,' she said. They slipped and stumbled down the tor and on to the plain, where they could see only a few metres ahead with the sun just a dull, distant glow above them. The tall grass was dripping wet, and their trouser legs were instantly soaked. 'Stay close,' said Rosa, patting Stick. The wolf yipped and did exactly as asked. With Nan taking the lead, they walked for nearly an hour before the mist thinned. But when Rosa was finally able to see again,

“瞄准太阳，我们就能找到海岸，”她说。 “但是我们在雾中看不到太阳，”罗莎说。 南微笑着从口袋里掏出一个小金属指南针。 “以防万一，”她说。他们滑了一跤，跌跌撞撞地走下山坡，来到平原上。在那里，他们只能看到前方几米远的地方，太阳在他们头顶上发出暗淡而遥远的光芒。 高高的草地上湿淋淋的，他们的裤腿立刻湿透了。 “待在身边，”罗莎拍拍棍子说。 狼叫了一声，完全按照要求做了。 在南的带领下，他们走了将近一个小时，雾才散了。 但当罗莎终于重见光明时，

it was absolutely worth the wait. The edges of Prickly Plain sloped downwards towards a wide, glistening estuary, dotted with rocky outcrops and thin streams of a river, widening out like the roots of a tree into the deep blue sea. And there's the ocean!' said Nan, thrusting her hands on to her hips. She breathed it in, letting her chest fill to bursting with the light, salty air.

这绝对值得等待。 多刺平原的边缘向下倾斜，通向一个宽阔的、闪闪发光的河口，那里点缀着露出地面的岩石和细细的河流，像树根一样伸向深蓝色的大海。 还有大海！南说着，双手插在屁股上。 她吸了一口气，让她的胸口充满了淡淡的、咸的空气。