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If so, he might be hours behind, but he would still be here too soon for Ned's liking. He had only to look at Sansa's face to feel the rage twisting inside him once again.
若真是如此，他應該還要幾個小時才會出現，這已經比奈德期望的要早上許多了。如今他只消看看珊莎的臉，就覺得心中怒火又要升起。
The last fortnight of their journey had been a misery. Sansa blamed Arya and told her that it should have been Nymeria who died.
旅途的最后兩周實在苦不堪言。珊莎責怪艾莉亞，說被殺的應該是娜梅莉亞。
And Arya was lost after she heard what had happened to her butcher's boy.
艾莉亞在得知屠夫學徒的死訊后就魂不守舍。
Sansa cried herself to sleep, Arya brooded silently all day long, and Eddard Stark dreamed of a frozen hell reserved for the Starks of Winterfell.
珊莎每晚哭著入眠，艾莉亞一聲不吭地獨自憂傷，艾德·史塔克自己則夢見了一個專為臨冬城史塔克家人準備的冰凍地獄。
He crossed the outer yard, passed under a portcullis into the inner bailey,
他穿越外庭，走過閘門，進入內院，
and was walking toward what he thought was the Tower of the Hand when Littlefinger appeared in front of him.
正朝他印象中首相塔的所在走去時，小指頭突然出現在面前。
You're going the wrong way, Stark. Come with me.
史塔克，你走錯路了，跟我來。
Hesitantly, Ned followed. Littlefinger led him into a tower, down a stair, across a small sunken courtyard,
奈德猶豫不決地跟著他，小指頭帶他進入一座塔，下了一道蜿蜒的階梯，
and along a deserted corridor where empty suits of armor stood sentinel along the walls.
穿越一個凹陷的小庭院，沿著荒廢的回廊行走。兩旁墻壁，一副副無人使用的鎧甲好似站立的衛兵。
They were relics of the Targaryens, black steel with dragon scales cresting their helms, now dusty and forgotten.
他們是坦格利安家族遺留下來的歷史陳跡，黑色精鋼打造，頭盔鑲著龍鱗，但如今積滿灰塵，早已被人遺忘。
This is not the way to my chambers, Ned said.
這不是通往我居室的路。奈德道。
Did I say it was? I'm leading you to the dungeons to slit your throat and seal your corpse up behind a wall, Littlefinger replied, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
我說過是嗎？我正打算把你引進地牢，割了喉嚨，再把你的尸體封進墻里。小指頭語帶譏諷。
We have no time for this, Stark. Your wife awaits.
史塔克，我們沒時間廢話，尊夫人正等著你。
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