Her loins still ached from the urgency of his lovemaking. It was a good ache. She could feel his seed within her. She prayed that it might quicken there. It had been three years since Rickon. She was not too old. She could give him another son.
她的下體仍然因為剛才他劇烈的動作而疼痛,但這是一種感覺美好的疼痛,她可以感覺到他的種子在自己體內。她祈禱種子能開花結果。生完瑞肯已是三年前的事了,她年紀還輕,可以再為他添個兒子。
“I will refuse him,” Ned said as he turned back to her. His eyes were haunted, his voice thick with doubt.
"我拒絕他就是。"他邊說邊轉身面向她,眼神陰霾不開,語調充滿疑慮。
Catelyn sat up in the bed. “You cannot. You must not.”
凱特琳從床上坐起來:"不行,你不能拒絕。"
“My duties are here in the north. I have no wish to be Robert’s Hand.”
"我的責任在這里、在北方,我無意接任勞勃的首相一職。"
“He will not understand that. He is a king now, and kings are not like other men. If you refuse to serve him, he will wonder why, and sooner or later he will begin to suspect that you oppose him. Can’t you see the danger that would put us in?”
"他才不懂這些,他現在是國王了,國王可不能當常人看待。倘若你拒絕了他,他定會納悶其原因,隨后遲早會懷疑你是否包藏二心。你難道看不出拒絕之后,可能為我們帶來的危險嗎?"
Ned shook his head, refusing to believe. “Robert would never harm me or any of mine. We were closer than brothers. He loves me. If I refuse him, he will roar and curse and bluster, and in a week we will laugh about it together. I know the man!”
奈德搖搖頭:"勞勃絕不會做出對我或我家人不利的事。他愛我更勝親兄弟,假如我拒絕,他會暴跳如雷,罵不絕口,但一個星期之后我們便會對這件事嗤之以鼻。他這個人我清楚!"
“You knew the man,” she said. “The king is a stranger to you.” Catelyn remembered the direwolf dead in the snow, the broken antler lodged deep in her throat. She had to make him see. “Pride is everything to a king, my lord. Robert came all this way to see you, to bring you these great honors, you cannot throw them back in his face.”
"你清楚的是過去的他,"她答道,"現在的國王對你來言,已經成了陌生人。"凱特琳想起倒臥雪地的那頭冰原狼,想起喉嚨里深插的鹿角。她得想辦法讓他認清事實。"大人,國王的自尊是他的一切,勞勃不遠千里來看望你,為你帶來如此至高無上的榮譽,你說什么也不能斷然拒絕,這等于當眾摔他一個耳光呀。"
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。