It took her back to her childhood, to long grey days at Riverrun. She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother’s laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves. She remembered making mud pies with Lysa, the weight of them, the mud slick and brown between her fingers. They had served them to Littlefinger, giggling, and he’d eaten so much mud he was sick for a week. How young they all had been.
這感覺將她帶回到童年時代，憶起在奔流城度過的那些灰蒙蒙的日子。她記得飽溢濕氣的神木林，枝干低垂；記得弟弟追著她跑過一堆堆濕葉，笑聲清脆。她也記得和萊莎玩泥巴的種種情景，記得泥團在手中的重量，滑溜的褐濘在指間流動的感覺。后來，她們咯咯笑著把做好的泥餅端給小指頭吃，他竟當真吃了一堆，足足病了一個星期。啊，記得當時年紀還小。
Catelyn had almost forgotten. In the north, the rain fell cold and hard, and sometimes at night it turned to ice. It was as likely to kill a crop as nurture it, and it sent grown men running for the nearest shelter. That was no rain for little girls to play in.
凱特琳本以為自己早已忘卻了這些事。北境的雨寒冷而無情，有時入夜還會成霜。說是滋養生殖，轉眼就變成作物殺手，連成人遇上也紛紛走避。這種雨，哪是給小女孩玩的呢？
“I am soaked through,” Ser Rodrik complained. “Even my bones are wet.” The woods pressed close around them, and the steady pattering of rain on leaves was accompanied by the small sucking sounds their horses made as their hooves pulled free of the mud. “We will want a fire tonight, my lady, and a hot meal would serve us both.”
"全身都濕透了，"羅德利克爵士抱怨，"濕到骨子里去了。"他們周圍樹林濃密，葉梢的落雨聲伴著馬蹄行走泥濘的響動。"夫人，我們今晚該找個有火的地方歇歇，若能吃點熱東西更好。"
“There is an inn at the crossroads up ahead,” Catelyn told him. She had slept many a night there in her youth, traveling with her father. Lord Hoster Tully had been a restless man in his prime, always riding somewhere. She still remembered the innkeep, a fat woman named Masha Heddle who chewed sourleaf night and day and seemed to have an endless supply of smiles and sweet cakes for the children.
"前面路口有家旅店。"凱特琳告訴他。她年輕時與父親外出曾多次在此借宿。霍斯特·徒利公爵壯年時在城里待不住，總是騎馬到處晃蕩。她還記得旅館主人是個不分晝夜嚼著煙葉、名叫瑪莎·海德的胖女人。瑪莎似乎永遠都是笑容滿面，還常拿蛋糕給孩子們吃。
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。
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