Do you ever find anyone in your dream? Sam asked.
在夢中你找到人了嗎?山姆問。
Jon shook his head. No one. The castle is always empty.
瓊恩搖搖頭。一次也沒有。城堡里總是空無一人。
He had never told anyone of the dream, and he did not understand why he was telling Sam now, yet somehow it felt good to talk of it.
他從未對人說起過這個夢,更不明白自己此刻為何獨對山姆敞開胸懷,但說出來的感覺真好。
Even the ravens are gone from the rookery, and the stables are full of bones.
連鳥巢里的烏鴉也不見了,馬廄里只剩下一堆枯骨。
That always scares me.
每次都把我嚇得半死。
I start to run then, throwing open doors, climbing the tower three steps at a time, screaming for someone, for anyone.
我開始亂跑,到處開門,三步并作兩步地爬著高塔樓梯,尖叫著別人的名字,任何人都好。
And then I find myself in front of the door to the crypts. It's black inside, and I can see the steps spiraling down.
最后,我發現自己站在通往地下墓窖的門前,里面一團漆黑,我只能看見蜿蜒向下的螺旋梯。
Somehow I know I have to go down there, but I don't want to.
不知怎的,我很清楚自己必須下去,但我卻不想下去。
I'm afraid of what might be waiting for me.
我害怕等在里面的東西。
The old Kings of Winter are down there, sitting on their thrones with stone wolves at their feet and iron swords across their laps, but it's not them I'm afraid of.
古時候歷代的冬境之王都在那兒,坐在他們的王位上,石雕狼躺在腳邊,大腿橫放著鐵劍,可我怕的卻不是他們。
I scream that I'm not a Stark, that this isn't my place, but it's no good, I have to go anyway, so I start down, feeling the walls as I descend, with no torch to light the way.
我大聲尖叫,我告訴他們我不是史塔克家的人,此地與我無關,然而沒有用,不管怎樣我都必須下去。于是我扶著墻壁前進,沒有火把照明,我只好慢慢往下走。
It gets darker and darker, until I want to scream.
路越來越暗,越來越暗,暗到我直想尖叫。
He stopped, frowning, embarrassed. That's when I always wake.
他停下來,皺起眉頭,覺得很不好意思。每次夢到這里,我就醒了。

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。