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Jon Snow could only stand and watch. Like the snowfall on the barrowlands, it seemed the tears would never end.
瓊恩·雪諾沒了主意，只能站在一旁觀看。他的淚水如同荒冢地的雪，似乎永遠不會停。
It was Ghost who knew what to do. Silent as shadow, the pale direwolf moved closer and began to lick the warm tears off Samwell Tarly's face. The fat boy cried out, startled...and somehow, in a heartbeat, his sobs turned to laughter.
到頭來還是白靈聰明。蒼白的冰原狼像陰影一般無聲地靠過去，舔舐山姆威爾·塔利臉上溫熱的淚水。胖男孩驚叫了一聲…但不知什么緣故，轉眼間他的啜泣就變成了歡笑。
Jon Snow laughed with him. Afterward they sat on the frozen ground, huddled in their cloaks with Ghost between them.
瓊恩·雪諾也笑了。隨后他們一起坐在結冰的地面上，蜷縮在斗篷里，白靈窩在兩人之間。
Jon told the story of how he and Robb had found the pups newborn in the late summer snows. It seemed a thousand years ago now.
瓊恩說起他和羅柏在夏末雪地里找到剛出生的小狼群的故事。這好像是一千年前的故事了。
Before long he found himself talking of Winterfell.
但很快，他發覺自己談到了臨冬城。
Sometimes I dream about it,” he said. I'm walking down this long empty hall. My voice echoes all around, but no one answers, so I walk faster, opening doors, shouting names. I don't even know who I'm looking for. Most nights it's my father, but sometimes it's Robb instead, or my little sister Arya, or my uncle.” The thought of Benjen Stark saddened him; his uncle was still missing. The Old Bear had sent out rangers in search of him. Ser Jaremy Rykker had led two sweeps, and Quorin Halfhand had gone forth from the Shadow Tower, but they'd found nothing aside from a few blazes in the trees that his uncle had left to mark his way. In the stony highlands to the northwest, the marks stopped abruptly and all trace of Ben Stark vanished.
我有時候做夢都還會回去。他說，我夢到自己走在空蕩蕩的大廳里，四壁反射著我的聲音，卻無人應答，所以我加快腳步，打開一扇扇門，喊著其他人的名字。我不知道自己究竟要找誰，多半是找我父親，有時候卻是羅柏，有時又是我小妹艾莉亞，或是我叔叔。想起至今依然下落不明的班揚·史塔克，他不禁難過起來。熊老派了游騎兵北出長城去找他。杰瑞米·萊克爵士領過兩次隊，斷掌科林則從影子塔出發，但除了叔叔在森林里偶爾留下來當路標的火把外，可說一無所獲。一旦進入陡峭的西北高地，各種記號便都突然不見，班揚·史塔克的痕跡消失得無影無蹤。
背景介紹:
《權力的游戲》是一部中世紀史詩奇幻題材的電視連續劇。該劇以美國作家喬治·R·R·馬丁的奇幻巨作《冰與火之歌》七部曲為基礎改編創作，由大衛·貝尼奧夫和丹尼爾·威斯編劇、HBO電視網推出。喬治·雷蒙德·理查德·馬丁是歐美奇幻小說大師。馬丁的作品主要以人物為關注點，描寫細膩豐富，突破了幻想文學界固有的創作模式，多次引領閱讀潮流。由于馬丁的輝煌成就，他被譽為美國的托爾金和新世紀的海明威。從1989年開始，馬丁淡出文學界，轉而投身演藝界發展，1996年他才重返文壇而開始奇幻文學的創作，處女作便是《權力的游戲》，即為《冰與火之歌》的首部曲。《權力的游戲》甫出便拿下了British Fantasy Society、 世界奇幻獎和星云獎年度最佳幻想作品提名，在非官方的不記名奇幻作品投票中，《冰與火之歌》儼然已經可以和《魔戒》平起平坐，作者網站的訪問量也是和斯蒂芬·金、J.K.羅琳等不相上下，其受歡迎的程度可見一斑。喬治馬丁被時代雜志評選為2011年影響世界的一百人之一。
