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Only Robb and baby Rickon were still here, and Robb was changed.
只有羅柏和小瑞肯留下來，但羅柏也變了個人。
He was Robb the Lord now, or trying to be. He wore a real sword and never smiled.
現在的羅柏是一城之主，至少他正朝這個目標努力。他佩上一把真正的劍，從來不笑。
His days were spent drilling the guard and practicing his swordplay, making the yard ring with the sound of steel as Bran watched forlornly from his window.
白天他把時間都花在操演士兵和練習劍術上，金鐵交擊聲充斥校場，布蘭卻只能孤獨地坐在窗臺邊觀看；
At night he closeted himself with Maester Luwin, talking or going over account books.
到了晚上，羅柏把自己和魯溫師傅鎖在房里，交換意見或討論賬目。
Sometimes he would ride out with Hallis Mollen and be gone for days at a time, visiting distant holdfasts.
有時他會和哈里斯·莫蘭騎馬出巡，一去就是好幾天。
Whenever he was away more than a day, Rickon would cry and ask Bran if Robb was ever coming back.
而只要他外出超過一日，瑞肯便會哭著追問布蘭羅柏還會不會回來。
Even when he was home at Winterfell, Robb the Lord seemed to have more time for Hallis Mollen and Theon Greyjoy than he ever did for his brothers.
其實就算待在臨冬城，羅柏城主也都和哈里斯·莫蘭與席恩·葛雷喬伊待在一塊，沒時間陪兩個弟弟。
I could tell you the story about Brandon the Builder, Old Nan said. That was always your favorite.
我來說說筑城者布蘭登的故事吧，老奶媽說，你最喜歡這個故事了。
Thousands and thousands of years ago, Brandon the Builder had raised Winterfell, and some said the Wall. Bran knew the story, but it had never been his favorite.
幾千年以前，筑城者布蘭登興建了臨冬城，有人說絕境長城也是他建造的。布蘭知道這個故事，但他并不特別喜歡。
Maybe one of the other Brandons had liked that story.
喜歡這個故事的，或許是另一個叫布蘭登的孩子。
Sometimes Nan would talk to him as if he were her Brandon, the baby she had nursed all those years ago, and sometimes she confused him with his uncle Brandon, who was killed by the Mad King before Bran was even born.
有時老奶媽會誤以為他是許多年以前她養大的那個布蘭登，有時又會把他和布蘭登伯伯混為一人，而伯伯早在他出生以前就被瘋王所害。
She had lived so long, Mother had told him once, that all the Brandon Starks had become one person in her head.
她活了這么多年，母親曾對他說，以至于所有叫布蘭登·史塔克的人在她腦子里都變成了同一個。
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