Above the Vale, the Eyrie stood high and impregnable, its towers reaching for the sky. There she would find her sister and, perhaps, some of the answers Ned sought. Surely Lysa knew more than she had dared to put in her letter. She might have the very proof that Ned needed to bring the Lannisters to ruin, and if it came to war, they would need the Arryns and the eastern lords who owed them service.
雄立于艾林谷頂端的鷹巢城固若金湯，高塔直向天際。在那里她可以找到妹妹萊莎…或許還能找到某些奈德求索的答案。萊莎信里想必有所保留，不敢多說，說不定她正持有奈德需要的證據，足以導致蘭尼斯特家的毀滅。倘若真的開戰，他們也需要得到艾林家族和其臣屬的東境貴族們的支持。
Yet the mountain road was perilous. Shadowcats prowled those passes, rock slides were common, and the mountain clans were lawless brigands, descending from the heights to rob and kill and melting away like snow whenever the knights rode out from the Vale in search of them. Even Jon Arryn, as great a lord as any the Eyrie had ever known, had always traveled in strength when he crossed the mountains. Catelyn's only strength was one elderly knight, armored in loyalty.
然而山路崎嶇難行，危機四伏。影子山貓四處出沒不提，落石是常有的事，山區氏族部落更是目無法紀的盜匪，他們從峰巒間呼嘯而至，殺人越貨后，一見峽谷派出騎士追剿，便如積雪融化般消失得無影無蹤。就連瓊恩·艾林如此少見的英明領主，每次穿越山脈也必定帶上大批人馬。而此刻凱特琳惟一的人馬是個老騎士，惟一的屏障是他的忠誠。
No, she thought, Riverrun and the Eyrie would have to wait. Her path ran north to Winterfell, where her sons and her duty were waiting for her. As soon as they were safely past the Neck, she could declare herself to one of Ned's bannermen, and send riders racing ahead with orders to mount a watch on the kingsroad.
不，她想，奔流城和鷹巢城以后再說，此刻她應該北上直取臨冬城，她的三個兒子和重責大任正對她翹首以盼。只等安然渡過頸澤，她便可對奈德的封臣宣布身份，然后派信使騎馬先行，發布國王大道戒嚴的消息。
The rain obscured the fields beyond the crossroads, but Catelyn saw the land clear enough in her memory. The marketplace was just across the way, and the village a mile farther on, half a hundred white cottages surrounding a small stone sept.
雨絲遮蔽了岔路遠方的田野，但凱特琳記憶里的風景依舊清晰。市集在路的那一頭，再走一里有個村落，五十來間白色農舍圍繞著一間小小的石砌圣堂。
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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