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“He was the fourth this year,” Ned said grimly. “The poor man was half-mad. Something had put a fear in him so deep that my words could not reach him.” He sighed. “Ben writes that the strength of the Night’s Watch is down below a thousand. It’s not only desertions. They are losing men on rangings as well.”
「這已經是今年第四個逃兵了，」奈德沉著臉說道，「那個可憐的家伙已經瘋了一半，不知什麼東西把他嚇成那副德行，連我說話都起不了作用。」他嘆口氣："班寫信來說守夜人的兵力只剩不到一千，不只是因為逃兵，他們派出去的巡邏隊也損失慘重。"
“Is it the wildlings?” she asked.
「是野人的關系麼？」她問道。
“Who else?” Ned lifted Ice, looked down the cool steel length of it. “And it will only grow worse. The day may come when I will have no choice but to call the banners and ride north to deal with this King-beyond-the-Wall for good and all.”
「還會有誰呢？」奈德舉起「寒冰」，俯首審視手中冰冷的鋼鐵。「而且恐怕情況只會越來越糟，也許我更會別無選擇，非得召集家臣，率軍北進，與這個絕境長城以外的國王一決生死。」
“Beyond the Wall?” The thought made Catelyn shudder.
「絕境長城以外？」凱特琳想到就不禁渾身顫抖。
Ned saw the dread on her face. “Mance Rayder is nothing for us to fear.”
奈德察覺了她臉上的恐懼。「我們用不著害怕曼斯·雷德。」
“There are darker things beyond the Wall.” She glanced behind her at the heart tree, the pale bark and red eyes, watching, listening, thinking its long slow thoughts.
「長城外還有更可怕的東西。」她轉過頭去，看著城心樹慘白的樹皮和赭紅的雙眼，凝視、傾聽、思考著深邃悠遠的思緒。
His smile was gentle. “You listen to too many of Old Nan’s stories. The Others are as dead as the children of the forest, gone eight thousand years. Maester Luwin will tell you they never lived at all. No living man has ever seen one.”
他的微笑好溫柔。「你聽了太多老奶媽的故事了。異鬼和森林之子一樣，早已經消失了八千多年。魯溫師傅會告訴你他們根本就沒存在過，沒有人活著見過他們。」
“Until this morning, no living man had ever seen a direwolf either,” Catelyn reminded him.
「在今天早上以前，不也沒有人見過冰原狼麼？」凱特琳提醒他。
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。
