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Yet knowing all that, what had he learned? The king had other baseborn children scattered throughout the Seven Kingdoms. He had openly acknowledged one of his bastards, a boy of Bran's age whose mother was highborn. The lad was being fostered by Lord Renly's castellan at Storm's End.
即便如此，他又能從中發現什么？國王所生的孩子遍及七國全境。他曾公開承認過一個和布蘭年紀相仿的私生子，男孩的母親是貴族，現在交由藍禮公爵的風息堡代理城主收養。
Ned remembered Robert's first child as well, a daughter born in the Vale when Robert was scarcely more than a boy himself. A sweet little girl; the young lord of Storm's End had doted on her. He used to make daily visits to play with the babe, long after he had lost interest in the mother. Ned was often dragged along for company, whether he willed it or not. The girl would be seventeen or eighteen now, he realized; older than Robert had been when he fathered her. A strange thought.
奈德也記得勞勃的第一個孩子，是他還在艾林谷時所生的女兒，當時他自己都還稚氣未脫。那是個可愛的小女孩，風息堡的年輕領主對她寵愛有加，即便他早就對孩子的母親失去了興趣，那陣子還是天天去逗女兒玩。而且不論奈德愿意與否，每每被抓去作伴。他突然想到，那女孩現在該有十七八歲了，比勞勃生她時的年紀還大，想來真有些怪異。
Cersei could not have been pleased by her lord husband's by-blows, yet in the end it mattered little whether the king had one bastard or a hundred. Law and custom gave the baseborn few rights. Gendry, the girl in the Vale, the boy at Storm's End, none of them could threaten Robert's trueborn children...
對于她主君到處留種的行徑，瑟曦想必不會高興，但到頭來不論國王有一個私生子還是一百個都沒有差別，畢竟根據法律和習俗，庶出的子嗣享有的權利極為有限。不管詹德利，艾林谷的女孩，或者是風息堡那小子，全都不可能威脅到勞勃與王后所生的孩子…
His musings were ended by a soft rap on his door. “A man to see you, my lord,” Harwin called. “He will not give his name.”
他的思緒被門上一陣輕敲打斷。"大人，有人想見您，"哈爾溫喊，"他不肯通報姓名。"
“Send him in,” Ned said, wondering.
"讓他進來。"奈德納悶地說。
The visitor was a stout man in cracked, mud-caked boots and a heavy brown robe of the coarsest roughspun, his features hidden by a cowl, his hands drawn up into voluminous sleeves.
訪客體格粗壯，穿著沾滿泥濘的破爛靴子，披著用極粗糙的料子制成的厚重褐色長袍，面容被蒙頭斗篷遮住，兩手藏在重重疊疊的袖子里。
背景介紹:
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