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His skin cold and clammy, shivering in the darkness of his cell. Ghost would leap up beside him, his warmth as comforting as daybreak. He would go back to sleep with his face pressed into the direwolf s shaggy white fur. Do you dream of Horn Hill? Jon asked.
他醒來時總是渾身冷汗，獨自在黑暗的臥室里發抖。這時白靈會跳到他身邊，用如朝陽般溫暖的身軀依偎他，然后他會把臉枕在冰原狼長長的白色毛皮上，再度沉沉睡去。你會夢見角陵嗎？
No. Sam's mouth grew tight and hard. I hated it there. He scratched Ghost behind the ear, brooding, and Jon let the silence breathe. After a long while Samwell Tarly began to talk, and Jon Snow listened quietly, and learned how it was that a self-confessed coward found himself on the Wall.
不會。山姆抿緊嘴唇。我討厭那里。他搔搔白靈耳背，陷入沉思，瓊恩也沒追問。又過了一陣子，山姆威爾·塔利終于開始說話，瓊恩·雪諾則靜靜聆聽，聽這個自承懦弱的膽小鬼親口述說來到絕境長城的的緣由。
The Tarlys were a family old in honor, bannermen to Mace Tyrell, Lord of Highgarden and Warden of the South. The eldest son of Lord Randyll Tarly, Samwell was born heir to rich lands, a strong keep, and a storied two-handed greatsword named Heartsbane, forged of Valyrian steel and passed down from father to son near five hundred years.
塔利家族歷史悠久，盛名遠播，是高庭公爵兼南境守護梅斯·提利爾的封臣。山姆威爾乃是藍道·塔利伯爵的嫡長子，生來就繼承了富饒的領地、堅固的堡壘和一把傳奇的雙手巨劍。劍名碎心，是用瓦雷利亞鋼打造而成，父子歷代相傳，已有近五百年之久。
Whatever pride his lord father might have felt at Samwell's birth vanished as the boy grew up plump, soft, and awkward. Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks, drinking in the rich smells as he snitched lemon cakes and blueberry tarts.
然而不論山姆威爾誕生時，父親對兒子有著何種的驕傲，都已經隨著他的日漸長大、變得肥胖、柔弱又脾氣古怪，而全部煙消云散。山姆喜歡聽音樂，喜歡編曲子，喜歡穿柔軟的天鵝絨，喜歡跟在城堡廚房的師傅身邊、陶醉于他調制的檸檬蛋糕和藍莓甜餅的濃郁香氣里。
背景介紹:
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