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His palms were cut where he'd grabbed at the blade. She backed away slowly, Needle red in her hand. She had to get away, someplace far from here, someplace safe away from the stableboy's accusing eyes.
他剛才握劍的手掌也被割傷。她慢慢后退，擎著血淋淋的縫衣針。她想離開，她必須離開，她要躲到遠離這馬僮充滿控訴的眼神的地方。
She snatched up the bridle and harness again and ran to her mare, but as she lifted the saddle to the horse's back, Arya realized with a sudden sick dread that the castle gates would be closed. Even the postern doors would likely be guarded. Maybe the guards wouldn't recognize her. If they thought she was a boy, perhaps they'd let her... no, they'd have orders not to let anyone out, it wouldn't matter whether they knew her or not.
于是她慌忙抓起馬鞍和韁繩，朝她的母馬跑去。然而正當舉鞍準備放上馬背時，艾莉亞突然恐懼地想到城門一定已經關閉，邊門也多半有人看守。或許守衛認不出她。如果他們把她當成男孩，或許就會讓她……不對，他們一定接到了不準任何人出去的命令，所以認不認出她都一樣。
But there was another way out of the castle...
還有一條路可以離開城堡……
The saddle slipped from Arya's fingers and fell to the dirt with a thump and a puff of dust. Could she find the room with the monsters again? She wasn't certain, yet she knew she had to try.
馬鞍從艾莉亞指間滑落，咚地一聲，掉在泥土地上，濺起一陣灰塵。她還得去找那個充滿怪獸的房間嗎？她不確定，但她知道自己非試不可。
She found the clothing she'd gathered and slipped into the cloak, concealing Needle beneath its folds. The rest of her things she tied in a roll. With the bundle under her arm, she crept to the far end of the stable. Unlatching the back door, she peeked out anxiously. She could hear the distant sound of swordplay, and the shivery wail of a man screaming in pain across the bailey. She would need to go down the serpentine steps, past the small kitchen and the pig yard, that was how she'd gone last time, chasing the black tomcat... only that would take her right past the barracks of the gold cloaks. She couldn't go that way.
她找到剛才收集的衣服，然后披上斗篷，以遮掩縫衣針。她把其余東西綁成一束，將包裹夾在腋下，溜到馬廄的另一頭。她打開后門的鎖，不安地向外偷瞄。遠處傳來劍擊聲，內城那邊還有個人在垂死哀嚎。她必須走下螺旋梯，穿過小廚房和養豬場，上次她追趕黑公貓就是走的這條路……可這樣走會直接經過金袍衛士的軍營，所以行不通。
