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司氏姐妹第八章：水與火

作者：Wuwuyu 於 2012-7-27 06:07 發表於最熱鬧的華人社交網路--貝殼村

作者分類:翻譯小說|通用分類:原創文學

關鍵詞：童話小說, 學英語, 中國女孩, 移民生活, 哈利波特

第八章 - 火與水

拘留所的房子是一個長方形的石頭建築，四個角落砌得像刀子削過一樣尖銳。它座立在那個周圍長滿一圈貓尾巴花的池塘邊。房子很小，看起來最多可容納兩三名囚犯，因此如果瑪拉在裡面，應該不難找到她。當姐妹們走近沼澤池時，陰暗潮濕的水氣滲透到他們的鼻子里。空氣異常的沉靜。

很完美，摩根的聲音迴響在瑪麗的頭腦中。看塘里有多少水。

等一等，瑪麗回答說，把米娜的手握得更緊。我們不能就這樣跑進去，先檢查一下情況。

相信我。摩根說，我知道 。

摩根熄滅了房子里的燈，周圍頓時漆黑一團。「嘿！」他們聽到裡面一個男人的驚呼和傢具移動的聲音。摩根快速地把她手中的火球舉向窗口，房間被照亮，而房子里的人卻看不到光。

通過窗口，她們看到了拘留所里的前半區域。房間擺設簡單：只有一張桌子和兩把椅子，上面坐著兩名警察。一名警察已站起來，盲目地摸索著牆上的開關。另一位把他的頭趴在桌子上睡著了。桌子後面靠著一扇金屬大門，門的手把上上著鎖。女孩們在灌木叢中蹲下隱蔽好，摩根讓房間的燈重新亮起。裡面，她們聽到，那位醒著的警察走到門口把門打開，看了一眼，然後回到他的座位。

「他們只有兩個看守！」摩根說。「這太簡單了。瑪麗，你到池塘里拿些水，抓住這些傢伙，把他們困在池塘中，然後我把門上的鎖融化。米娜，在一邊看著。「

「你瘋了嗎？」瑪麗對摩根搖搖頭。「這等於我們在明天的報紙上發表一條消息，披露我們都是巫婆，用巫術的手段把瑪拉救出。」

她閉上了眼睛想了想。「不，」她最後說。「我們必須拿到鑰匙。」

「我們到哪兒去拿到它們？」摩根問。

「有一串，在那醒著的警察的腰帶上掛著。」

「我也看見它們了，」米娜說。

「好吧，就算我沒看到，」摩根說。「那又怎樣？」

「還有一樣東西，你可能沒看到，」瑪麗說，「在房間的一側，是一間浴室，有水槽和自來水。「

「好吧，」摩根眯起眼睛看著她的孿生姐妹，試圖讀懂她的想法。「我們怎樣才能從他的皮帶下拿到鑰匙？又任何對付那睡眠的傢伙呢？「

瑪麗笑了。他說：「我們必須確保他們都不擋在鐵門的出路口。我們需要一個辦法把他們引開。「她讓姐妹們再靠攏一些，告訴她們她的計劃。

當那被打擾的警察舒適地坐回他原來的位置，把這突如其來的黑燈歸咎於偶然的一次電路故障時，姐妹們已各就各位，準備就緒。瑪麗佔好了一個靠近浴室旁邊的牆的位置。摩根躲在對著前門的灌木叢里，而米娜悄悄跑到遠邊的沼澤地里，消失在貓尾巴花叢中。

瑪麗在腦子裡數著數，3，2，1，準備，她告訴摩根。開始。池塘里的水開始翻滾，波浪攪亂了黑夜的寂靜。醒著的警察不耐煩地站起來，來到窗前，看了一會。窗外濃煙層疊，讓他不得不睜大眼睛。他跨了兩大步，來到門邊，再次把門打開。

他看到如下的情景：一道濃煙通向遠邊的池塘，那裡的貓尾巴花邊上的一塊草地似乎要冒煙起火。

「他媽的！」他罵道，跑回裡面，可以聽到他搖醒他夥伴的聲音。

「嘿！」瑪麗聽到他說。「我得出去檢查一下。有什麼東西燒著了。「然後瑪麗聽到椅子在地面移動，打哈欠，和嘟噥同意的聲音。

「我醒了，」另一位說。

第一個看守走出門口，拿著水桶，在門關上之前，摩根把一條細長樹枝塞進了門縫，使門不能完全關閉。他跑著慢步到遠邊的池塘旁去檢查冒煙的草地，同時伸出頭小心翼翼看著周圍。

與此同時，瑪麗把她的能量從池塘中收回，而集中在流動在衛生間水管里的水中。她先把廁所里的水攪動，然後，又推動了管道里的水，讓它們衝出水龍頭。

房子內，她聽到了一陣攪動。「真操蛋！」睡覺的看守已經站起來。接著瑪麗聽到他關閉水池的水龍頭，打開廁所水箱蓋子的聲音。她閉上了眼睛。開始！她傳話給摩根，在她思想之間，一個水管突然爆裂，水流飛向衛生間的門，把門關閉。關在衛生間內的看守大罵。摩根衝進房間，正當看守把手夠到門的把手時，她的手也放在了門的另一面的把手上。「哎約！」看守疼得喊道。門把手已變得滾燙。他疼得往後一躍，再次詛罵著。摩根全神貫注地看著門和牆之間的空間，做了一個深呼吸。她要做到恰到好處，否則計劃會泡湯。她把熱從把手傳輸到門卡進牆的那個部件，熱度恰好能把其邊緣微微融化，與裝在牆上的金屬外殼融在一起，從而有效地把看守鎖在衛生間里。她必須做得很微妙，以至於人們認為只是覺得鎖卡住了門。完成！她把信息傳輸給瑪麗。瑪麗跑到門口，米娜似乎也同時從天而降。

「你拿到它了嗎？」瑪麗問。米娜遞上鑰匙串。當第一個看守在檢查火勢時，米娜的手悄悄地從貓尾巴花叢中伸出，偷偷地從他的皮帶上取下了鑰匙串。她還很小，尚未開發出任何魔力，但她的小巧讓她靈活，且難以看到。她似乎也能夠無聲地跑行，就像瑪麗在今晚早些時候注意到那樣，她曾無聲地溜出房子，悄悄地跟在倆位姐姐後面。

「真了不起，」瑪麗說，拍拍她的背，帶她跑進屋。她們趕快關上門，上好鎖。摩根已經把燈泡換成她自己的火球，松松垮垮的掛在燈罩下。瑪麗看著黑色鐵門上的鎖，在鑰匙串上找出鑰匙。她把鑰匙對準鎖孔，輕輕一轉。

鎖呵嚓一聲打開。

Chapter 8 – Fire and Water
The holding house was a rectangular stone building whose corners were so sharp they might have been cut with a knife. It stood of the edge of a pond rimmed with cattails. It would not be difficult to find Mara inside, if she was there, because the house was small and looked like it could hold two, maybe three prisoners at most. As the sisters approached the swamp the murky, dank smell of its waters seeped into their noses. The air was uncannily silent.

It』s perfect, Morgan voice said inside of Marie』s head. Look how much water there is.

Wait, Marie said back, holding Mina』s hand tighter. We can』t just run in. Let』s check out the situation first.

Trust me, Morgan said. I know.

Morgan turned off the lights in the house so that everything went black. 「Hey!」 they heard a male voice inside exclaim, and some furniture shifting. Quickly, Morgan held up the fire in her hand up to the window, casting a light inside so that they could see without being seen.

Through the window, they saw the front area of the holding house. It was sparse: occupied only by a desk and two chairs, on top of which two policemen had been sitting. One of the policemen was on his feet, grasping blindly on the walls for a switch. The other was asleep with his head on the desk. Behind the desk was a back metal door with a lock on its handle. The girls ducked down and out of sight behind a bush, and Morgan lit up the room again. Inside, they heard the policeman who had been up walk toward the door and open it, glancing out, then settle back into his seat.

「They only have two guards!」 Morgan said. 「This is going to be so simple. Marie, you get some of the water in the pond to grab these guys and trap them in the middle of the pond, and then I』ll melt the locks on all the doors. Mina, stand watch.」

「Are you crazy?」 Marie shook her head at Morgan. 「We might as well publish an expose in tomorrow』s paper saying that we』re all witches and got Mara out by magical means.」

She closed her eyes and thought. 「No,」 she said finally. 「We have to get the keys.」

「And where are we going to get those?」 Morgan demanded.

「There was a set, hanging around the awake officer』s belt.」

「I saw them too,」 Mina said.

「Okay, so I didn』t,」 Morgan said. 「So what?」

「Another thing you probably didn』t see,」 Marie said, 「was the room off the side. It』s a bathroom, with a sink and running water.」

「Okay,」 Morgan squinted at her twin, trying to read her thoughts. 「How are we going to get the keys off from around his belt? And what are we going to do with the sleeping guy?」

Marie smiled. 「We need to make sure they』re both safely out of the way. We need a distraction.」 She gathered her sisters around and told them the plan.

While the policeman who had been disturbed by the settled comfortably back into his position, attributing casually the sudden lights out to some kind of electrical fluke, the sisters got into position. Marie took her place next to the wall right next the bathroom. Morgan hid behind a shrub by the front door, and Mina ran quietly to the far edge of the swamp, where she disappeared amidst the cattails.

Marie counted down in her head. Ready, she told Morgan. Go. The waters in the pond started to churn, its waves disrupting the stillness of the night. The officer who was awake stood up hesitantly, came to the window and peered out. A thick smoke had accumulated outside the window, causing the officer』s eyes to open wide. He took two large steps to the door and swung it open again.

What he saw was this: a trail of smoke leading to the far edge of the pond, where a patch of grass near the cattails seemed to be smouldering and catching fire.

「Shit!」 he said, and ran back inside, where he could be heard shaking his partner awake.

「Hey!」 Marie heard him saying. 「I gotta go check something out. There』s something burning out there.」 Following this Marie heard chairs shifting across the ground, a yawn, and a grunt of approval.

「I』m awake,」 the other officer said.

The first guard walked out the front door holding a bucket, and as he did Morgan slipped a long thin branch into the crack of the door before it could close. He jogged to the far edge of the pond to examine the smouldering grass, looking cautiously over his shoulders.

Meanwhile, Marie turned her energies from the pond and concentrated on the water flowing through the pipes in the bathroom. She churned the water in the toilet, and then, pushed water up the pipes out of the faucet.

Inside the house, she heard a stir. 「What the heck?」 The sleeping officer had gotten to his feet. Marie heard him close the faucet on the sink and take the top off of the toilet tank. She closed her eyes. Now! she communicated to Morgan, and as she thought it a pipe burst, sending a stream of water flying toward the bathroom door, shutting it. The guard inside the bathroom cursed. Morgan dashed inside, and just as the officer reached for the doorknob she put her hands around it. 「Ach!」 the officer shouted. The doorknob had become whitehot. He leapt backward and cursed again. Morgan looked intensely at the space where the door met the wall, taking deep breaths. She had to get it just right or the plan would fail. She heated the handle just enough so that the part of the door that clicked into the wall melted around the edges, molding to its metal casing and effectively locking the officer in the bathroom. It was subtle enough that later someone might just think that the lock had jammed. Done, she communicated to Marie. Marie ran to the door, where Mina seemed to appear out of nowhere.

「Did you get it?」 Marie asked. Mina held up the keychain. While the first guard had been examining the fire, Mina had snuck her hands stealthily from the cattails and removed the keys from his belt. She was young and hadn』t yet developed any powers, but her size made her nimble and difficult to spot. She also seemed to be able to run extremely quietly, as Marie had noticed from earlier in the night when she had snuck out of the house after the twins.

「You』re amazing,」 Marie said, patting her on the back and leading her inside the house. They closed the door behind them and locked it. Morgan had already replaced the lightbulb with a ball of her own flame, hanging loosely over the lamp. Marie looked at the lock on the black door and sorted through the keys on the chain. She put the key in the keyhole and turned.

The lock clicked open.