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What game are you playing, Littlefinger? Catelyn is at Winterfell, hundreds of leagues from here.
小指頭，你到底耍什么把戲？凱特琳人在臨冬城，離此數百里之遙。
Oh? Littlefinger's grey-green eyes glittered with amusement. Then it appears someone has managed an astonishing impersonation.
哦？小指頭灰綠色的眼睛里閃著饒富興味的光芒。那么此人的易容術果真不同凡響。
For the last time, come. Or don't come, and I'll keep her for myself. He hurried down the steps.
我說最后一次，要么跟我來，不然我就把她據為己有啰。他快步走下階梯。
Ned followed him warily, wondering if this day would ever end. He had no taste for these intrigues,
奈德滿懷戒心地跟上，心里不知這一天究竟何時才會結束。他對這些心機巧詐毫無興趣，
but he was beginning to realize that they were meat and mead to a man like Littlefinger.
但已逐漸開始理解，對于小指頭這樣的人，權術和陰謀就是家常便飯。
At the foot of the steps was a heavy door of oak and iron. Petyr Baelish lifted the crossbar and gestured Ned through.
階梯底端有一扇橡木和鐵條制成的厚重門扉。培提爾舉起門閂，揮手示意奈德進去。
They stepped out into the ruddy glow of dusk, on a rocky bluff high above the river. We're outside the castle, Ned said.
他發現他們正置身位于河流之上的峻峭絕壁，浸沐在黃昏的紅暈里。我們在城堡外面。奈德道。
You are a hard man to fool, Stark, Littlefinger said with a smirk. Was it the sun that gave it away, or the sky? Follow me.
你還真不好騙嘛，史塔克。小指頭傻笑道，到底是太陽還是天空泄露了秘密？跟我來。
There are niches cut in the rock. Try not to fall to your death, Catelyn would never understand.
巖壁上挖了可供攀附的凹洞。小心別摔死，否則凱特琳永遠也不會原諒我。
With that, he was over the side of the cliff, descending as quick as a monkey.
說完他翻身便往下爬，動作像猴子一般靈敏。
Ned studied the rocky face of the bluff for a moment, then followed more slowly.
奈德仔細審視了巖壁一會兒，然后慢慢地跟著下去。
The niches were there, as Littlefinger had promised, shallow cuts that would be invisible from below, unless you knew just where to look for them.
峭壁上果真如小指頭所言，刻有淺淺的凹洞，除非你原本就知道，否則從懸崖下根本無從發現。
The river was a long, dizzying distance below. Ned kept his face pressed to the rock and tried not to look down any more often than he had to.
河流離他們有一段高到令人暈眩的距離。奈德把臉貼上巖石，除非必要，盡量不往下看。
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