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Outside, there were shouts of “Fire!” in the yard, screams, running footsteps, the whinny of frightened horses, and the frantic barking of the castle dogs. The howling was gone, she realized as she listened to the cacophony. The direwolves had fallen silent.
外面廣場上傳來"失火了！"的吶喊、尖叫、奔跑的腳步聲、受驚的馬兒嘶鳴以及驚狂的狗吠。在陣陣不和諧的聲響中，她突然發現聽不見狼嚎了，不知怎地，冰原狼都安靜了下來。
Catelyn said a silent prayer of thanks to the seven faces of god as she went to the window. Across the bailey, long tongues of flame shot from the windows of the library. She watched the smoke rise into the sky and thought sadly of all the books the Starks had gathered over the centuries. Then she closed the shutters.
凱特琳走向窗邊，心中朝著至高七神默默禱告，以示感激之情。隔著城廓，只見長長的火舌自藏書高塔窗間吐射而出。她望著濃煙直沖云霄，不禁暗自為陷身火海的珍本古籍而惋惜，它們可都是史塔克家族歷經多少世代辛苦累積的精華哪。然后她關上了窗。
When she turned away from the window, the man was in the room with her.
轉過身，她才發現屋里多了一名男子。
“You weren’t supposed to be here,” he muttered sourly. “No one was supposed to be here.”
"你不該在這兒，"他陰沉地嘀咕，"這里不該有人。"
He was a small, dirty man in filthy brown clothing, and he stank of horses. Catelyn knew all the men who worked in their stables, and he was none of them. He was gaunt, with limp blond hair and pale eyes deep-sunk in a bony face, and there was a dagger in his hand.
他穿著一身臟污的褐色衣服，個頭很小，渾身散發出馬臊味。凱特琳對在馬廄工作的仆人了如指掌，卻對眼前來人毫無印象。他骨瘦如柴，生了一頭軟塌的金黃色頭發，暗淡的雙眼凹陷在皮包骨的臉上，手里握著一把匕首。
Catelyn looked at the knife, then at Bran. “No,” she said. The word stuck in her throat, the merest whisper.
凱特琳望望那把刀，再看看布蘭。"不。"她說。話卡在喉嚨里出不來，傳出的只剩最微弱的低語。
He must have heard her. “It’s a mercy,” he said. “He’s dead already.”
想必他還是聽到了。"這是為他好。"他說，"反正他跟死人也沒兩樣。"
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。
