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What was it that Jon had said when they found the pups in the snow? Your children were meant to have these pups, my lord.
當初瓊恩在雪地里找到那群小狼時，他說了些什么？大人，您的孩子注定要擁有這些小狼。
And he had killed Sansa's, and for what? Was it guilt he was feeling? Or fear? If the gods had sent these wolves, what folly had he done?
結果他卻親手殺了珊莎的狼，到頭來這是為了什么？他現在的感覺是罪惡？還是恐懼？假如這些狼實乃上天所賜，他究竟犯了何等滔天大罪？
Painfully, Ned forced his thoughts back to the dagger and what it meant. The Imp's dagger, he repeated. It made no sense.
奈德痛苦地強迫自己將思緒拉回眼前的匕首，思考隱含其后的含義。小惡魔的刀。他復誦。這太不合理。
His hand curled around the smooth dragonbone hilt, and he slammed the blade into the table, felt it bite into the wood.
他緊握平滑的龍骨刀柄，將之狠狠地插進桌面，感覺它深深地咬入木頭。
It stood mocking him. Why should Tyrion Lannister want Bran dead? The boy has never done him harm.
匕首就這么立著，仿佛在嘲弄他。提利昂·蘭尼斯特為什么要布蘭的命？那孩子從沒招惹他。
Do you Starks have nought but snow between your ears? Littlefinger asked. The Imp would never have acted alone.
你們史塔克家的人都沒腦筋的？小指頭問，小惡魔當然不會單獨行動。
Ned rose and paced the length of the room. If the queen had a role in this or, gods forbid, the king himself?no, I will not believe that.
奈德起身，繞著房間踱步。難道說王后亦參與此事？或者，諸神在上，連國王他也…不，絕對不可能。
Yet even as he said the words, he remembered that chill morning on the barrowlands, and Robert's talk of sending hired knives after the Targaryen princess.
他一邊說著，一邊想起了那個荒冢地的清冷早晨，勞勃提到派刺客去對付坦格利安公主。
He remembered Rhaegar's infant son, the red ruin of his skull, and the way the king had turned away, as he had turned away in Darry's audience hall not so long ago.
他憶起雷加那尚在襁褓的兒子，血淋淋的頭顱，以及國王置之不理的態度，正如不久以前他在戴瑞的會客廳里的所作所為。
He could still hear Sansa pleading, as Lyanna had pleaded once.
珊莎的哀告至今猶在耳際，一如萊安娜臨終前的懇求。
Most likely the king did not know, Littlefinger said.
國王八成不知情。小指頭道。
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