Chapter 2-5

CHAPTER FiVE This is just like a proper fairy tale with a fairy godmother and everything! Bennett and Courier were not far from the clearing where Florizella had left Bear and the picnic. "You're sure it was here?" Bennett asked. "Positive," Courier replied. "Look– hoofprints on the ground." "They could be anybody's," Bennett said.

第五章 这简直就是个正儿八经的童话故事呀，还有仙女教母什么的呢！ 弗洛里泽拉之前把熊和野餐留在那片空地，班纳特和科里耶离那儿已经不远了。 “你确定就是这儿吗？” 班纳特问道。 “百分百确定。”科里耶回答。 “你看——地上还有蹄印呢。” “谁知道这是谁的蹄印啊。”班纳特说。

"I know they're mine." Courier jumped down from his pony and pointed to the size of the hoofprint. "See? I was here before, and look– I went home that way." "That's a great relief," Bennett said sarcastically. "I couldn't be happier to have proof that you went safely home. But it's Florizella we're worried about– and when you trit-trotted home, she went out again. And, since you didn't raise the alarm, we didn't get here in time, and now we don't know where she's gone." "Now, if we had a map that showed where we are and where she is…" Courier started to say, when they heard a strange whoosh and a POP behind him. When Bennett looked, Courier had completely disappeared. All that was left was a rather surprised pony with trailing reins, and nothing at all at the other end of them. "Courier?" Bennett asked, "Courier, if you're messing about hiding, then come out. We've got to back-up Florizella, remember? We're a rescue party! You can't just vanish when we're on an adventure." There was no sound at all. Just the tiniest tinkle of falling fairy dust.

“我知道这是我的蹄印呀。” 科里耶从自己的小马上跳下来，指着蹄印的大小给班纳特看。 “看到没？ 我之前来过这儿，你再看——我之前就是往那边回家的。” “那可真是太让人放心了。”班纳特语气讽刺地说。 “有证据证明你平安回家了，我可太开心了。 可我们现在担心的是弗洛里泽拉啊——你嘚嘚嘚跑回家的时候，她又出去了。 而且你当时都没发出警报，我们没能及时赶过来，现在都不知道她去哪儿了。” “唉，要是咱们有张地图，能知道咱们在哪、她在哪就好了……”科里耶刚开口，就听到身后传来一阵奇怪的嗖嗖声，接着“砰”的一声响。 等班纳特看过去的时候，科里耶已经彻底消失不见了。 地上只留下一匹看起来懵懵的小马，缰绳还拖在地上，缰绳另一头什么人都没有。 “科里耶？”班纳特喊道，“科里耶，你要是躲起来闹着玩，就赶紧出来。 咱们得去帮弗洛里泽拉的忙，忘了吗？ 咱们是救援队啊！ 咱们出来冒险呢，你可不能就这么不见了。” 周围一点声音都没有。 只有仙尘落下时极轻极细的叮当声。

"Courier?" Bennett said a little more anxiously. "Courier!" He caught the reins of Courier's pony, holding his own horse tightly, and he bellowed at the top of his voice: "COURIER! COURIER!" "No need to shout," Florizella remarked, suddenly appearing. Jellybean, looking very dejected, was walking along behind her. "Gosh! Has he gone too?" Bennett gaped at her. "Vanished into thin air. Are you OK?" "Yes, I'm fine," Florizella said sounding not-fine-at all. "Just that everything I own and love is being stolen from me, one thing at a time, by Five-Fathom Frieda. She wishes that she had them, and my fairy godmother– my own fairy godmother!– delivers them to her." Bennett looked at her with his mouth agape. But he went at once to the most unlikely part of the whole incredible story. "Five-Fathom Frieda wants Courier? She can't do." Glumly, Florizella nodded. Jellybean was glum too. "But why? She can't possibly have wished for Courier. That must be a mistake. Has she ever spent

“科里耶？”班纳特的声音多了点焦急。 “科里耶！” 他抓住科里耶那匹小马的缰绳，又紧紧牵住自己的马，扯开嗓子大喊：“科里耶！科里耶！” “没必要喊这么大声呀。”弗洛里泽拉突然冒了出来，开口说道。 吉利宾跟在她身后，看起来垂头丧气的。 “天呐！ 他也不见了吗？” 班纳特目瞪口呆地看着她。 “就这么凭空消失了。 你没事吧？” “嗯，我没事。”弗洛里泽拉说，听起来却一点都不像没事的样子。 只是我所有拥有的、心爱的东西，都被五英寻弗里达一件一件偷走了。 她想要什么，我的仙女教母——我自己的仙女教母啊！——就把东西给她送过去。” 班纳特张着嘴，愣愣地看着她。 但他第一反应竟然是问这整个不可思议的故事里最离谱的那个点。 “五英寻弗里达想要科里耶？ 不可能啊。” 弗洛里泽拉闷闷地点了点头。 吉利宾也蔫蔫的。 “可是为什么啊？ 她总不可能许愿想要科里耶吧。 肯定是哪里弄错了。 她之前有和科里耶相处过

any time with him?" "No, but she saw him standing on the whale, remember? When he thought it was an island? Just think how useful it would be to a pirate captain to have someone who could find islands. She probably didn't know that not only did he not find an island, he is dangerously incapable of recognising a whale." "She'll send him back," Bennett said with certainty. "Nobody would keep Courier for more than half a day. He'll invent something for her and it will be completely useless." "We can't risk it," Florizella said. "Mummy Queen and Daddy King are sure to ask where he is at teatime. And anyway– what about Bear– Frieda's taken him too– and I have to find Bear." "Can we follow Courier?" Bennett asked. "Can you wish us there?" Florizella looked doubtful. "If we just appear by magic, then Five-Fathom Frieda could just wish us away again. What I really want to do, is sneak up on Five-Fathom Frieda, rescue Bear and Courier without her knowing, and then make her promise to go back to proper piracy and stop wishing for my

任何时光么？ “没有呀，但是她见过科里耶站在鲸鱼背上，还记得吗？ 那时候他还以为那是个岛呢？ 你想想啊，要是有个人能找着岛，对海盗船长来说多有用啊。 她可能不知道，他不仅没找到岛，甚至连鲸鱼都认不出来，这可危险得很呢。” “她会把他送回来的。”班纳特十分肯定地说。 “谁都不会把科里耶留在身边超过半天的。 他肯定会给她发明点什么东西，最后全是没用的废物。” “咱们可不能冒这个险。”弗洛里泽拉说。 “下午茶的时候王后妈妈和国王爸爸肯定会问起他去哪儿了。 再说了——还有熊呢——弗里达也把他带走了啊——我得找到熊才行。” “咱们能跟着科里耶的踪迹走吗？” 班纳特问。 “你能不能许愿把咱们送到他那儿去？” 弗洛里泽拉看起来有点犹豫。 “要是咱们用魔法直接出现，五英寻弗里达说不定又会许愿把咱们弄走。 我真正想做的，是偷偷溜到五英寻弗里达那儿，趁她没注意把熊和科里耶救出来，然后让她保证回去好好当她的海盗，别再许愿要我的

things," Florizella said. "And then I want to get hold of the fairy godmother and make her stop." "Stop her granting wishes?" "There are rules about what can be granted, she told me. They should certainly not allow stealing!" Bennett was silent for a moment, then he said: "I might have a Brilliant Plan." "Oh yes?" Florizella trusted Bennett– often he actually did have a Brilliant Plan. "Why don't you wish that you knew where Five- Fathom Frieda was hiding Bear and Courier? And we could sneak up on them, rescue Bear and Courier, capture her and force her to stop." "Now that is a Brilliant Plan," Florizella agreed. She spread her hands wide, closed her eyes and said: "I wish I knew where Five-Fathom Frieda was keeping Courier and Bear." There was a rather irritable clang– not a pleasant fairy tinkle at all– and Florizella clapped her hand to her forehead as if someone had bashed her in the face with a frying pan. "Got it!" she said. "Though that was rather hard." "For heaven's sake!" came an irritable squeak from the blue sky. "You wished hard."

东西。”弗洛里泽拉说。 “然后我还要找到仙女教母，让她别再这么做了。” “不让她再实现愿望了吗？” “她告诉过我，能实现的愿望是有规则的。 反正肯定不能允许偷东西啊！” 班纳特沉默了一会儿，然后说：“我可能有个绝妙的主意。” “哦？说来听听？” 弗洛里泽拉很信任班纳特——很多时候他还真的能想出绝妙的好主意。 “你不如许个愿，说你想知道五英寻弗里达把熊和科里耶藏在哪儿了？ 然后咱们偷偷摸过去，把熊和科里耶救出来，抓住她，逼她停手。” “这还真是个绝妙的好主意！”弗洛里泽拉同意了。 她张开双手，闭上眼睛说道：“我希望知道五英寻弗里达把科里耶和熊关在哪儿了。” 传来一声相当不耐烦的哐当声——一点都不像平时好听的仙子叮当声——弗洛里泽拉猛地用手捂住额头，就好像有人拿煎锅砸了她的脸似的。 “知道啦！” 她说。 “不过刚才那一下可真够疼的。” “我的天呐！”蓝天里传来一声不耐烦的尖叫。 “谁让你许愿用那么大劲啊。”

"Where are they?" Bennett asked, watching all this with interest. "On Frieda's pirate ship, by the Queasy Quays," Florizella said. "We hardly needed a wish for that actually– we could have figured it out for ourselves." "Exactly!" said the distant voice. "Spoiled and now lazy." Bennett inched over to Florizella. "She's not very nice, is she?" he whispered. "I mean, if she's the good fairy godmother, and she slaps you in the face with your wish and calls you spoiled and lazy, what do you think the wicked one is like?" Florizella widened her eyes. "Please tell me I haven't got a wicked fairy godmother as well as this one!" Bennett shrugged. "I don't know," he said. "But I didn't know until now that you'd got a good fairy godmother. And I've never seen any of mine. How does anyone know if they've got them or not?" Florizella looked quite horrified. "There could be dozens of them," she said. "All waiting to join in some ridiculous fairy tale when I get put to sleep and you have to cut your way through the forest. Or I get imprisoned in an impossibly tall tower and you climb

“他们在哪儿？” 贝内特饶有兴致地看着这一切，开口问道。 “在晕晕码头旁边，弗里达的海盗船上。”弗洛里泽拉说。 “其实这事我们根本用不着许愿——我们自己本来也能想明白的。” “没错！”那个远远的声音说道。 “被宠坏了，现在还变懒了。” 贝内特一点点挪到弗洛里泽拉身边。 “她不太友好，对吧？”他小声说。 “我是说，如果她就是好心的仙女教母，却拿你的愿望打你的脸，还说你被宠坏了、又懒惰，你觉得坏心眼的那个会是什么样？” 弗洛里泽拉瞪大了眼睛。 “拜托告诉我，我除了这个之外，没有什么坏心眼的仙女教母吧！” 贝内特耸了耸肩。 “我不知道。”他说。 “但我之前也不知道你有个好心的仙女教母啊。 我连我自己的教母一个都没见过呢。 谁又能知道自己到底有没有仙女教母呀？” 弗洛里泽拉看起来吓坏了。 “说不定有好几十个呢。”她说。 “全等着哪天我被下了沉睡咒，你得一路砍开森林闯进来的时候，跳出来演什么荒唐的童话故事。 要么就是我被关在一座高得离谱的塔里，你得爬