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“I came to see Bran,” Jon said. “To say good-bye.”
"我來探望布蘭，"瓊恩回答，"來向他道別。"
Her face did not change. Her long auburn hair was dull and tangled. She looked as though she had aged twenty years. “You’ve said it. Now go away.”
她依舊面無表情，原本蓬厚的褐紅色長發垂頭喪氣地糾纏亂成一團，看上去仿佛一夕之間老了二十歲。"你已經達到了目的，走吧。"
Part of him wanted only to flee, but he knew that if he did he might never see Bran again. He took a nervous step into the room. “Please,” he said.
他恨不得拔腿就跑，但他很清楚自己這輩子很可能再也見不著布蘭了，于是他反而不安地朝屋里跨了一步："求求你讓我見他一面吧。"
Something cold moved in her eyes. “I told you to leave,” she said. “We don’t want you here.”
她眼里閃過一道寒光。"我叫你走開，"她冷冷地說，"我們不歡迎你。"
Once that would have sent him running. Once that might even have made him cry. Now it only made him angry. He would be a Sworn Brother of the Night’s Watch soon, and face worse dangers than Catelyn Tully Stark. “He’s my brother,” he said.
若是從前，她這席話準會把他嚇得沒命奔逃，羞得淚流滿面，但是現在，卻只讓他怒火中燒。他即將宣誓加入守夜人的黑衣軍團，屆時他將面對比凱特琳·徒利·史塔克更駭人的危險。"好歹我是他哥哥。"他說。
“Shall I call the guards?”
"你要我叫警衛嗎？"
“Call them,” Jon said, defiant. “You can’t stop me from seeing him.” He crossed the room, keeping the bed between them, and looked down on Bran where he lay.
"你盡管叫，"瓊恩憤憤地道，"但你阻止不了我見他一面的。"說完他穿過房間，走到病床的另一邊，低頭看著布蘭。
She was holding one of his hands. It looked like a claw. This was not the Bran he remembered. The flesh had all gone from him. His skin stretched tight over bones like sticks. Under the blanket, his legs bent in ways that made Jon sick. His eyes were sunken deep into black pits; open, but they saw nothing. The fall had shrunken him somehow. He looked half a leaf, as if the first strong wind would carry him off to his grave.
她正握著布蘭的一只手，可那只手看起來不像手，倒像爪子。眼前的病人已非瓊恩記憶中那個布蘭，他形容枯槁，骨瘦如柴，兩腳在毛毯下蜷曲成令人作嘔的形狀。他的雙眼深陷，活像兩個黑色的窟窿，張開著，卻仿若茫然。他看起來正如一片弱不經風的孤葉，一陣勁風便足以將他吹動飄散。
背景介紹：
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