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“Don’t,” she told him. “Bran needs to stay warm.”
"別開窗，"她告訴他，"讓布蘭暖和點。"
“He needs to hear them sing,” Robb said. Somewhere out in Winterfell, a second wolf began to howl in chorus with the first. Then a third, closer. “Shaggydog and Grey Wind,” Robb said as their voices rose and fell together. “You can tell them apart if you listen close.”
"他需要聽聽小狼的叫聲。"羅柏道。在臨冬城的某處，又有一只狼加入到長嚎的陣容，之后又是一只，這次離高塔比較近。"是毛毛狗和灰風。"在高低起伏，抑揚頓挫的狼嚎聲中，羅柏說："仔細聽，你可以分辨出他們。"
Catelyn was shaking. It was the grief, the cold, the howling of the direwolves. Night after night, the howling and the cold wind and the grey empty castle, on and on they went, never changing, and her boy lying there broken, the sweetest of her children, the gentlest, Bran who loved to laugh and climb and dreamt of knighthood, all gone now, she would never hear him laugh again. Sobbing, she pulled her hand free of his and covered her ears against those terrible howls. “Make them stop!” she cried. “I can’t stand it, make them stop, make them stop, kill them all if you must, just make them stop!”
凱特琳卻仍舊顫抖不已，這不僅因為悲傷，因為寒冷，還因為冰原狼的叫聲。夜復一夜，日復一日，狼嚎、凜風和灰暗空寂的城堡，漫無邊際地延續，恒常不變，而她的愛子卻倒臥病榻，這是她最甜美的孩子，那個愛笑，愛爬，愛做騎士夢的布蘭，如今全成了過眼云煙，只怕此生再也聽不到他的笑聲。思及此處，她泣不成聲，不顧一切地自他掌中抽出雙手，捂住耳朵，不愿再聽外面那駭人的狼嚎。"叫他們別叫了！"她喊，"我受不了，叫他們別叫了，別叫了，就算殺了他們也沒關系，只要他們別叫就好！"
She didn’t remember falling to the floor, but there she was, and Robb was lifting her, holding her in strong arms. “Don’t be afraid, Mother. They would never hurt him.” He helped her to her narrow bed in the corner of the sickroom. “Close your eyes,” he said gently. “Rest. Maester Luwin tells me you’ve hardly slept since Bran’s fall.”
她不記得自己何時跌倒在地，但她確實在地上，羅柏扶她起身，用強壯的雙臂環住她。"母親，您別怕，他們絕對不會傷害布蘭。"他攙她走到病房角落她的狹窄小床邊。"閉上眼睛，"他溫柔地說，"好好休息。魯溫師傅跟我說打布蘭出事以來您幾乎沒闔過眼。"
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。
