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6．CATELYN
第六章 凱特琳
Of all the rooms in Winterfell’s Great Keep, Catelyn’s bedchambers were the hottest. She seldom had to light a fire. The castle had been built over natural hot springs, and the scalding waters rushed through its walls and chambers like blood through a man’s body, driving the chill from the stone halls, filling the glass gardens with a moist warmth, keeping the earth from freezing. Open pools smoked day and night in a dozen small courtyards. That was a little thing, in summer; in winter, it was the difference between life and death.
在臨冬城主堡所有的房間里，就屬凱特琳的臥室最是悶熱，以至于當時鮮少有生火取暖的必要。城堡立基于天然的溫泉之上，蒸騰熱水如同人體內的血液般流貫高墻寢室，將寒意驅出石材大廳，使玻璃花園充滿濕氣與暖意，讓土壤不致結凍。十幾個較小的露天庭院中，溫泉日夜蒸騰。夏日里，這或許無足輕重，但到了冬季，卻往往是生與死的差別。
Catelyn’s bath was always hot and steaming, and her walls warm to the touch. The warmth reminded her of Riverrun, of days in the sun with Lysa and Edmure, but Ned could never abide the heat. The Starks were made for the cold, he would tell her, and she would laugh and tell him in that case they had certainly built their castle in the wrong place.
凱特琳喜歡把洗澡水弄得滾燙炙熱、蒸汽四溢，而她選擇的居室四周墻壁摸起來也一向很溫暖。只因這種溫暖能勾起她對于奔流城的回憶，讓她想起那段在艷陽底下，與萊莎和艾德慕嘻鬧奔逐的日子，只是奈德始終無法忍受這種熱度。他總告訴她，史塔克家族的人生來就要與冰天雪地為伍，而她也總會笑答：倘若真是這樣，那么他們的城堡真是蓋錯了地方。
So when they had finished, Ned rolled off and climbed from her bed, as he had a thousand times before. He crossed the room, pulled back the heavy tapestries, and threw open the high narrow windows one by one, letting the night air into the chamber.
所以，當他們完事之后，奈德便翻過身，從她床上爬起來，如以前千百次一樣走過房間，拉開厚重的織錦帷幕，把高處的窄窗一扇扇推開，讓夜里的寒意灌進臥房。
The wind swirled around him as he stood facing the dark, naked and empty-handed. Catelyn pulled the furs to her chin and watched him. He looked somehow smaller and more vulnerable, like the youth she had wed in the sept at Riverrun, fifteen long years gone.
他靜靜佇立窗邊，全身赤裸，手無長物，獨向漫天的幽暗長空，冷風在他身邊穿梭呼嘯。凱特琳拉過溫暖的毛皮，蓋到下巴，默默地看著丈夫，覺得他看起來似乎變得瘦小又脆弱，仿佛突然之間又成了那個自己十五年前在奔流城圣堂托付一生的年輕人。
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。
