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I stood last vigil for him myself,” Ser Barristan Selmy said as they looked down at the body in the back of the cart. “He had no one else. A mother in the Vale, I am told.”
昨晚是我親自替他守的靈，巴利斯坦·賽爾彌爵士道，他們看著推車后面載著的遺體。這孩子無依無靠，連個親朋好友都沒有，聽說就只有艾林谷家里的母親。
In the pale dawn light, the young knight looked as though he were sleeping. He had not been handsome, but death had smoothed his rough-hewn features and the silent sisters had dressed him in his best velvet tunic, with a high collar to cover the ruin the lance had made of his throat. Eddard Stark looked at his face, and wondered if it had been for his sake that the boy had died. Slain by a Lannister bannerman before Ned could speak to him; could that be mere happenstance? He supposed he would never know.
蒼白的晨光中，年輕騎士看上去仿佛正在沉睡。他算不上英俊，但死亡撫平了他粗糙的面容，靜默修女會的姐妹則為他穿上了料子最好的天鵝絨外衣，高高的領口恰好遮住喉嚨上被長槍戳出的大洞。艾德·史塔克看著他的臉，暗忖這男孩不知是否因為自己而丟了性命。奈德還不及和他談談，他便死于蘭尼斯特封臣槍下。這真的只是巧合？他大概永遠不會知道。
“Hugh was Jon Arryn's squire for four years,” Selmy went on. “The king knighted him before he rode north, in Jon's memory. The lad wanted it desperately, yet I fear he was not ready.”
修夫在瓊恩·艾林身邊當了四年的侍從，賽爾彌繼續說，國王為了紀念瓊恩，在北行前封他做了騎士。這孩子想當騎士想得不行，只可惜他恐怕還沒準備好。
Ned had slept badly last night and he felt tired beyond his years. “None of us is ever ready,” he said.
奈德昨晚睡得很差，現在的他和身邊的老人一樣疲累。我們不也一樣？他說。
“For knighthood?”
我們也沒準備好當騎士？
“For death.” Gently Ned covered the boy with his cloak, a bloodstained bit of blue bordered in crescent moons. When his mother asked why her son was dead, he reflected bitterly, they would tell her he had fought to honor the King's Hand, Eddard Stark.
沒準備好面對死亡。奈德輕輕地為那孩子蓋上他繡著彎月的染血藍披風。當他的母親問起兒子死因時，他苦澀地想，他們會說他是為了首相的榮譽而獻身。
背景介紹:
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