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Will could see the tightness around Gared’s mouth, the barely suppressed anger in his eyes under the thick black hood of his cloak. Gared had spent forty years in the Night’s Watch, man and boy, and he was not accustomed to being made light of. Yet it was more than that. Under the wounded pride, Will could sense something else in the older man. You could taste it; a nervous tension that came perilous close to fear.
威爾看見蓋瑞緊抿的嘴唇，以及他厚重黑斗篷下強自遏抑的怒火。蓋瑞當了四十年的守夜人②，這種資歷可不是隨便讓人尋開心的。但蓋瑞不僅是憤怒，在他受傷的自尊底下，威爾隱約察覺到某種潛藏的不安，一種近似于畏懼的緊張情緒。
Will shared his unease. He had been four years on the Wall. The first time he had been sent beyond, all the old stories had come rushing back, and his bowels had turned to water. He had laughed about it afterward. He was a veteran of a hundred rangings by now, and the endless dark wilderness that the southron called the haunted forest had no more terrors for him.
威爾深有同感。他戍守長城不過四年，當初首次越墻北進，所有的傳說故事突然都涌上心頭，把他嚇得四肢發軟，事后想起難免莞爾。如今他已是擁有百余次巡邏經驗的老手，眼前這片南方人稱作鬼影森林的廣袤黑荒，他早已無所畏懼。
Until tonight. Something was different tonight. There was an edge to this darkness that made his hackles rise. Nine days they had been riding, north and northwest and then north again, farther and farther from the Wall, hard on the track of a band of wildling raiders. Each day had been worse than the day that had come before it. Today was the worst of all. A cold wind was blowing out of the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. All day, Will had felt as though something were watching him, something cold and implacable that loved him not. Gared had felt it too. Will wanted nothing so much as to ride hellbent for the safety of the Wall, but that was not a feeling to share with your commander.
然而今晚是個例外，迥異往昔，四方暗幕中有種莫可名狀、讓他汗毛豎立的驚悚。他們輕騎北出長城，中途轉向西北，隨即又向北，九天來晝夜加急、不斷推進，緊咬一隊土匪的足跡。環境日益惡化，今天已降到谷底。陰森北風吹得樹影幢幢，宛如猙獰活物，威爾整天都覺得自己受到一種冰冷且對他毫無好感的莫名之物監視，蓋瑞也感覺出了。此刻威爾心中只想掉轉馬頭，沒命似地逃回長城。但這卻是萬萬不能在長官面前說出的念頭。
讀物介紹：
《權力的游戲》是一部中世紀史詩奇幻題材的電視連續劇。該劇以美國作家喬治·R·R·馬丁的奇幻巨作《冰與火之歌》七部曲為基礎改編創作，由大衛·貝尼奧夫和丹尼爾·威斯編劇、HBO電視網推出。本劇第一季于2011年4月17日開播，第二季于2012年4月1日回歸，第三季于2013年3月31日開始播出，第四季已獲得預定，將在2014年春季回歸。
