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A light snow was falling. Bran could feel the flakes on his face, melting as they touched his skin like the gentlest of rains.
天空下著細雪，布蘭可以感覺到臉上飄落的雪花，一碰皮膚便即融化，像陣輕柔的雨。
He sat straight atop his horse, watching as the iron portcullis was winched upward. Try as he might to keep calm, his heart was fluttering in his chest.
他筆直地騎在馬上，看著鐵閘門被絞盤向上拉起。他雖竭力想保持鎮定，心臟卻一直在胸口狂跳個不停。
Are you ready? Robb asked.
準備好了嗎？羅柏問。
Bran nodded, trying not to let his fear show. He had not been outside Winterfell since his fall, but he was determined to ride out as proud as any knight.
布蘭點點頭，試著不露出害怕的神色。雖然自墜樓以來，他便沒有踏出過臨冬城一步，但他打定主意要像個騎士一樣昂首騎馬出去。
Let's ride, then.Robb put his heels into his big grey-and-white gelding, and the horse walked under the portcullis.
那我們走吧。羅柏一夾馬肚，騎著他那匹灰白相間的大公馬穿過閘門。
Go, Bran whispered to his own horse. He touched her neck lightly, and the small chestnut filly started forward.
前進。布蘭向自己的坐騎耳語。他輕觸它的脖子，栗子色的小母馬便邁步向前。
Bran had named her Dancer. She was two years old, and Joseth said she was smarter than any horse had a right to be.
布蘭為它取名小舞。它今年兩歲，喬賽斯說它聰明得不像馬。
They had trained her special, to respond to rein and voice and touch.
他們已經對它進行過特別訓練，讓它對韁繩、聲音和碰觸有反應，
Up to now, Bran had only ridden her around the yard.
但到目前為止，布蘭只是騎它繞繞廣場。
At first Joseth or Hodor would lead her, while Bran sat strapped to her back in the oversize saddle the Imp had drawn up for him, but for the past fortnight he had been riding her on his own, trotting her round and round, and growing bolder with every circuit.
最初喬賽斯或阿多會牽著它，布蘭則被綁在它背上那個超大的馬鞍上——馬鞍是照小惡魔的設計圖打造的。不過這兩個星期以來，他已經能獨自駕馭，騎著它來回慢跑，每繞一圈，膽子就更大。
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。
