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9．TYRION
第九章 提利昂
Somewhere in the great stone maze of Winterfell, a wolf howled. The sound hung over the castle like a flag of mourning.
臨冬城堡的巨石迷宮深處，傳來一聲狼嚎。嚎叫聲在堡壘間懸蕩，如同一面哀悼的旗幟。
Tyrion Lannister looked up from his books and shivered, though the library was snug and warm. Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.
雖然圖書館里溫暖舒適，提利昂聽了卻不禁從書堆里抬首，顫抖起來。狼嚎中有種神秘莫測的力量，將他硬生生自現實抽離，棄置于一片廣寒的陰郁森林，渾身赤裸，在惡狼追逐下亡命奔逃。
When the direwolf howled again, Tyrion shut the heavy leatherbound cover on the book he was reading, a hundred-year-old discourse on the changing of the seasons by a long-dead maester. He covered a yawn with the back of his hand. His reading lamp was flickering, its oil all but gone, as dawn light leaked through the high windows. He had been at it all night, but that was nothing new. Tyrion Lannister was not much a one for sleeping.
當冰原狼的嚎叫聲再度傳來，提利昂終于忍不住闔上他正在讀的書，那是一部探究季節更迭的百年古籍，出自某位早已長眠地下的老學士之手。他打了個呵欠，用手背微微掩住嘴巴。晨色自高窗縫里泄進圖書館，他的寫字燈火光搖曳，燈油已盡。他又整夜沒睡，然而這也不是什么新鮮事，提利昂·蘭尼斯特向來不是個需要大量睡眠的人。
His legs were stiff and sore as he eased down off the bench. He massaged some life back into them and limped heavily to the table where the septon was snoring softly, his head pillowed on an open book in front of him. Tyrion glanced at the title. A life of the Grand Maester Aethelmure, no wonder. “Chayle,” he said softly. The young man jerked up, blinking, confused, the crystal of his order swinging wildly on its silver chain.
他挪動僵硬酸麻的雙腳下了長凳，稍事按摩之后，跛著腳走到桌邊。修士正趴在桌上，輕聲打鼾，頭枕在面前一本敞開的大書上。提利昂瞄瞄書名，原來是《伊薩穆爾國師傳記》，難怪他會看到睡著。"柴爾，"他輕聲喚道，年輕修士陡地驚醒，困惑地眨眨眼，象征他身份的水晶在銀項鏈上晃動。
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。
