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It taught him Winterfell’s secrets too. The builders had not even leveled the earth; there were hills and valleys behind the walls of Winterfell. There was a covered bridge that went from the fourth floor of the bell tower across to the second floor of the rookery. Bran knew about that. And he knew you could get inside the inner wall by the south gate, climb three floors and run all the way around Winterfell through a narrow tunnel in the stone, and then come out on ground level at the north gate, with a hundred feet of wall looming over you. Even Maester Luwin didn’t know that, Bran was convinced.
他也因此挖掘出臨冬城許多不為人知的秘密，比如當初建筑工人并沒有把城堡附近的地勢鏟平，所以城墻外面不但有起伏丘陵，還有溪澗峽谷。布蘭知道一座密閉的橋道，可以從鐘塔的四樓直接通鴉巢的二層。他還知道如何從南門進入內城墻里邊，順著門梯爬三層，便能找到一條狹窄的石砌甬道，它可以繞行臨冬城，最后抵達位于百尺高墻陰影下的北門底層。布蘭相信就連魯溫師傅也不知道這條捷徑。
His mother was terrified that one day Bran would slip off a wall and kill himself. He told her that he wouldn’t, but she never believed him. Once she made him promise that he would stay on the ground. He had managed to keep that promise for almost a fortnight, miserable every day, until one night he had gone out the window of his bedroom when his brothers were fast asleep.
母親一直很害怕布蘭哪天會不小心滑下來，失足摔死。任他再三保證，她卻怎么也不肯相信。有次她強迫他發誓不再往高處爬，結果這個諾言只勉強維持了兩個星期，他每天都痛苦無比，最后有一天夜里，趁他兄弟熟睡的時候，他還是爬出了臥房窗戶。
He confessed his crime the next day in a fit of guilt. Lord Eddard ordered him to the godswood to cleanse himself. Guards were posted to see that Bran remained there alone all night to reflect on his disobedience. The next morning Bran was nowhere to be seen. They finally found him fast asleep in the upper branches of the tallest sentinel in the grove.
翌日他滿懷罪惡感地自行招認，艾德公爵叫他獨自去神木林懺悔，還派了守衛監視，以確保他整晚都在林子里反省他不聽話的行為。沒想到第二天清晨，布蘭卻不見蹤影，最后眾人是在林間最高的一棵哨兵樹的上層枝干找到睡得正香甜的他。
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?！稒嗔Φ挠螒颉犯Τ霰隳孟铝薆ritish 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。
