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If not, I shall convene the council to hear his final words and consider the matter of the succession, but I will not dishonor his last hours on earth by shedding blood in his halls and dragging frightened children from their beds."
倘非如是，我也將立刻召集御前會議，公開遺囑，討論繼承之事。我不會在他生命的最后時刻殺人流血，犯下把驚慌失措的孩子從睡夢中強行拉走的罪行。”
Lord Renly took a step back, taut as a bowstring. "Every moment you delay gives Cersei another moment to prepare. By the time Robert dies, it may be too late ... for both of us."
藍禮公爵后退一步，全身繃緊猶如弓弦。“你每耽擱一秒，就是多給瑟曦一秒準備的時間。等勞勃一死，只怕就為時已晚……對你我兩人都是如此啊。”
Then we should pray that Robert does not die.
“那我們就祈禱勞勃不要死吧。”
Small chance of that, said Renly.
“我看不大可能。”
Sometimes the gods are merciful.
“有時天上諸神也有慈悲之心。”
The Lannisters are not. Lord Renly turned away and went back across the moat, to the tower where his brother lay dying.
“蘭尼斯特可沒有。”藍禮轉身越過護城河，朝他垂死兄長所在的高塔走去。
By the time Ned returned to his chambers, he felt weary and heartsick, yet there was no question of his going back to sleep, not now. When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die, Cersei Lannister had told him in the godswood. He found himself wondering if he had done the right thing by refusing Lord Renly's offer. He had no taste for these intrigues, and there was no honor in threatening children, and yet ... if Cersei elected to fight rather than flee, he might well have need of Renly's hundred swords, and more besides.
等奈德回到臥室，已經心力交瘁，但他很清楚今晚自己是不用睡了。在權力的游戲之中，你不當贏家，就只有死路一條，那天在神木林里，瑟曦·蘭尼斯特這么對他說。他不禁思索：拒絕藍禮公爵的提議，究竟是不是明智之舉？他對權謀斗爭毫無興趣，拿小孩做為要脅籌碼更為他所不齒，然而……倘若瑟曦決定反抗，而非流亡，那他需要的可就不僅是藍禮的一百名衛士了，遠遠不夠。
I want Littlefinger, he told Cayn. "If he's not in his chambers, take as many men as you need and search every winesink and whorehouse in King's Landing until you find him.
“把小指頭找來，”他告訴凱恩，“如果他不在臥室，不管帶多少人，把君臨的每一間酒店和妓院通通搜遍，你也要找到他。
