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Yet now that the last day was at hand, suddenly Bran felt lost. Winterfell had been the only home he had ever known. His father had told him that he ought to say his farewells today, and he had tried. After the hunt had ridden out, he wandered through the castle with his wolf at his side, intending to visit the ones who would be left behind, Old Nan and Gage the cook, Mikken in his smithy, Hodor the stableboy who smiled so much and took care of his pony and never said anything but “Hodor,” the man in the glass gardens who gave him a blackberry when he came to visit...
可現在離出發只剩一天，布蘭卻突然若有所失起來。臨冬城是他惟一熟悉的家園，父親叮囑他今天要向大家道別，他也盡力去試。打獵隊伍離開后，他帶著小狼在城堡里閑逛，打算和熟人們一個個說再見。老奶媽、廚師蓋吉，鐵匠密肯，還有負責幫他照顧小馬，成天咧著嘴笑，除了"阿多"兩個字以外，一句話也不會講的馬夫阿多。每次布蘭去玻璃花園玩，阿多總會給他一顆黑莓。
But it was no good. He had gone to the stable first, and seen his pony there in its stall, except it wasn’t his pony anymore, he was getting a real horse and leaving the pony behind, and all of a sudden Bran just wanted to sit down and cry. He turned and ran off before Hodor and the other stableboys could see the tears in his eyes. That was the end of his farewells. Instead Bran spent the morning alone in the godswood, trying to teach his wolf to fetch a stick, and failing. The wolfling was smarter than any of the hounds in his father’s kennel and Bran would have sworn he understood every word that was said to him, but he showed very little interest in chasing sticks.
但他開不了口。他先去了馬廄，看到自己的小馬，只是現在已經不屬于他了。他很快便會擁有一匹真正的馬，而把小馬留在這里，突然間布蘭好想坐下來放聲大哭，于是他趕緊跑開，以免阿多和其他馬夫見到他眼中的淚水。他總共就說了這么一次再見，之后便一早上獨自躲在神木林里，教他的小狼把丟出去的樹枝叼回來，卻徒勞無功。他的小狼比父親獸舍里所有的獵狗都要聰明，他幾乎可以肯定他聽得懂他說的每一句話。只可惜他對叼樹枝似乎沒多少興趣。
背景介紹：
《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。喬治·雷蒙德·理查德·馬丁是歐美奇幻小說大師。馬丁的作品主要以人物為關注點，描寫細膩豐富，突破了幻想文學界固有的創作模式，多次引領閱讀潮流。由于馬丁的輝煌成就，他被譽為美國的托爾金和新世紀的海明威。從1989年開始，馬丁淡出文學界，轉而投身演藝界發展，1996年他才重返文壇而開始奇幻文學的創作，處女作便是《權力的游戲》，即為《冰與火之歌》的首部曲。《權力的游戲》甫出便拿下了British Fantasy Society、 世界奇幻獎和星云獎年度最佳幻想作品提名，在非官方的不記名奇幻作品投票中，《冰與火之歌》儼然已經可以和《魔戒》平起平坐，作者網站的訪問量也是和斯蒂芬·金、J.K.羅琳等不相上下，其受歡迎的程度可見一斑。喬治馬丁被時代雜志評選為2011年影響世界的一百人之一。
