It's dead, she said aloud. It's just a skull, it can't hurt me. Yet somehow the monster seemed to know she was there. She could feel its empty eyes watching her through the gloom, and there was something in that dim, cavernous room that did not love her. She edged away from the skull and backed into a second, larger than the first. For an instant she could feel its teeth digging into her shoulder, as if it wanted a bite of her flesh. Arya whirled, felt leather catch and tear as a huge fang nipped at her jerkin, and then she was running. Another skull loomed ahead, the biggest monster of all, but Arya did not even slow. She leapt over a ridge of black teeth as tall as swords, dashed through hungry jaws, and threw herself against the door.
它死了。她朗聲道，只是顆骷髏頭，傷不了我的。但不知怎的，那怪獸似乎知道她在這兒。她感覺得到它空洞的眼睛穿過陰暗看著她，在這個光線微弱、寬敞高大的房間里，有種不喜歡她的東西存在。她避開那個頭顱，向后退開，卻又碰到一個更大的骷髏。一時間她幾乎可以感覺它的牙齒陷進她的肩膀，仿佛想一口咬下她的血肉。艾莉亞旋身，一顆尖牙果然已經咬住她的外衣，皮革被鉤住，撕裂了一大塊，她沒命似的快跑。眼前又有一個頭顱出現，這是最大的怪獸。艾莉亞不敢慢步，她跳過一排高得像劍、山脊似的黑牙齒，沖進一個又一個饑餓的血盆大口，然后撞上了門。
Her hands found a heavy iron ring set in the wood, and she yanked at it. The door resisted a moment, before it slowly began to swing inward, with a creak so loud Arya was certain it could be heard all through the city. She opened the door just far enough to slip through, into the hallway beyond.
她摸黑找到木門上厚重的鐵環，使勁一拉，門抗拒了一會兒，方才緩緩向內打開，可是發出來的嘎吱聲卻大得嚇人，艾莉亞心想這下全城的人都會聽見了。她拉開恰好能讓自己鉆進去的縫隙，溜進門后的長廳。
If the room with the monsters had been dark, the hall was the blackest pit in the seven hells. Calm as still water, Arya told herself, but even when she gave her eyes a moment to adjust, there was nothing to see but the vague grey outline of the door she had come through. She wiggled her fingers in front of her face, felt the air move, saw nothing. She was blind. A water dancer sees with all her senses, she reminded herself. She closed her eyes and steadied her breathing one two three, drank in the quiet, reached out with her hands.
如果剛剛那個充滿怪獸的房間算得上黑暗，那這個大廳就是七層地獄里最伸手不見五指的黑洞。止如水，艾莉亞告訴自己，她給了眼睛足夠的調適時間，但除了剛才進來的門有模糊的灰色輪廓，其余依舊什么也看不到。她伸出手指在面前搖晃，感覺到空氣的移動，卻沒有東西。她成了瞎子。水舞者要用所有的感官去洞察周圍，她提醒自己。于是她閉上眼，穩住呼吸數了一二三，靜靜吸口氣，然后伸出雙手，開始摸索。
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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