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And yet, he knew he could not keep silent. He had a duty to Robert, to the realm, to the shade of Jon Arryn...and to Bran, who surely must have stumbled on some part of the truth. Why else would they have tried to slay him?
即便如此，他依舊無法保持沉默。他要對勞勃負責，更要對整個國家，對死去的瓊恩·艾林……對布蘭負責。那孩子肯定是無意之中聽見部分事實，否則他們何必殺他滅口？
Late that afternoon he summoned Tomard, the portly guardsman with the ginger-colored whiskers his children called Fat Tom. With Jory dead and Alyn gone, Fat Tom had command of his household guard. The thought filled Ned with vague disquiet. Tomard was a solid man; affable, loyal, tireless, capable in a limited way, but he was near fifty, and even in his youth he had never been energetic. Perhaps Ned should not have been so quickto send off half his guard, and all his best swords among them.
當天傍晚，他把身材粗壯，留著淡黃胡須，被他的孩子們戲稱為“胖湯姆”的守衛托馬德找來。由于喬里已死，埃林又出門在外，胖湯姆便成了他的侍衛隊長。想到這奈德覺得些微不安，托馬德是個很可靠的人，待人和藹可親，忠心耿耿，不辭辛勞，某些地方還算能干，但他已年近五十，而即使年輕時也算不上精力充沛?；蛟S奈德不該這么輕易地送走半數侍衛，那些可都是他手下最精良的戰士。
I shall require your help, Ned said when Tomard appeared, looking faintly apprehensive, as he always did when called before his lord. "Take me to the godswood."
“我需要你幫忙，”托馬德進門時，奈德對他說。胖湯姆每當被主人傳喚，總有些惴惴不安，這回也不例外?！胺鑫胰ド衲玖?。”
Is that wise, Lord Eddard? With your leg and all?
“艾德大人，這樣好嗎？您腳這個樣子……”
Perhaps not. But necessary.
“或許不好，但我必須這么做。”
Tomard summoned Varly. With one arm around each man's shoulders, Ned managed to descend the steep tower steps and hobble across the bailey. "I want the guard doubled," he told Fat Tom. "No one enters or leaves the Tower of the Hand without my leave."
托馬德叫來瓦利，奈德一手扶一人的肩膀，勉強走下高塔陡峭的樓梯，跛著腳穿過內城?！皩⑹匦l班次加倍，”他告訴胖湯姆?！拔唇浳以试S，任何人不準進出首相塔。”
Tom blinked. "M'lord, with Alyn and the others away, we are hard-pressed already..."
湯姆眨眨眼?！袄蠣敚巯律倭税Ａ炙麄?，我們的人手很吃緊……”
