It is more than that, Catelyn insisted. Ser Rodrik spoke to Ser Aron Santagar in all secrecy, yet somehow the Spider knew of their conversation.
不只如此,凱特琳堅持,羅德利克爵士和艾倫·桑塔加爵士的會面自始至終都秘密進行,但這蜘蛛不知怎么就是知道談話內容。
I fear that man.
我很怕這個人。
Littlefinger smiled. Leave Lord Varys to me, sweet lady.
小指頭微笑。好夫人,
If you will permit me a small obscenity, and where better for it, I hold the man's balls in the palm of my hand. He cupped his fingers, smiling.
瓦里斯伯爵就交給我來對付。容我說幾句臟話—還有什么地方比這里更適合了呢?他的卵蛋被我大大方方地捏在手掌心。他合攏指頭,笑了,
Or would, if he were a man, or had any balls. You see, if the pie is opened, the birds begin to sing, and Varys would not like that.
當然啰,這里假設他是個有卵蛋的男人。你不妨這么想,假如喜鵲會開口,小小鳥兒要歌唱,那么瓦里斯是不會喜歡的。
Were I you, I would worry more about the Lannisters and less about the eunuch.
好啦,如果我是你,與其擔心那太監,不如多提防蘭尼斯特的人。
Ned did not need Littlefinger to tell him that.
奈德無需小指頭提醒。
He was thinking back to the day Arya had been found, to the look on the queen's face when she said, We have a wolf, so soft and quiet.
他想起找到艾莉亞那天的場景,想起王后當時的神情。誰說我們沒有狼?那么地輕聲細語。
He was thinking of the boy Mycah, of Jon Arryn's sudden death, of Bran's fall,
他想到男孩米凱,想到瓊恩·艾林的猝死,還有布蘭墜樓,
of old mad Aerys Targaryen dying on the floor of his throne room while his life's blood dried on a golden blade.
以及喪心病狂的老王伊里斯·坦格利安躺在王座廳的地板上奄奄一息,他的血在鍍金寶劍上慢慢干涸的場面。
My lady, he said, turning to Catelyn, there is nothing more you can do here.
夫人,他轉向凱特琳,你留在這里也無濟于事,
I want you to return to Winterfell at once. If there was one assassin, there could be others.
我希望你即刻返回臨冬城。所謂有其一必有其二,難保以后不會有其他刺客上門滋事。
Whoever ordered Bran's death will learn soon enough that the boy still lives.
不管背后主謀是誰,他一定很快就得知布蘭活了下來。
I had hoped to see the girls. Catelyn said.
我本想見見女兒……凱特琳道。
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