The king had been her last hope. The king could command Father to let her stay in King's Landing and marry Prince Joffrey, Sansa knew he could, but the king had always frightened her. He was loud and rough-voiced and drunk as often as not, and he would probably have just sent her back to Lord Eddard, if they even let her see him. So she went to the queen instead, and poured out her heart, and Cersei had listened and thanked her sweetly... only then Sir Arys had escorted her to the high room in Maegor's Holdfast and posted guards, and a few hours later, the fighting had begun outside. "Please," she finished, "you have to let me marry Joffrey, I'll be ever so good a wife to him, you'll see. I'll be a queen just like you, I promise."
她的希望只剩下國王,只有國王才能命令父親讓她留在君臨,和喬佛里成親。話雖如此,她卻一直很怕這個講話粗聲粗氣,成天喝得酩酊大醉的國王,更何況就算當真見到他,他很可能只會派人把她送回父親身邊。所以她去找王后,將心事和盤吐露,瑟曦聽完之后,鄭重地向她道謝……接著卻派亞歷斯爵士護送她到梅葛樓的高塔房間,并在門外安排守衛,沒過多久,外面便傳來打斗聲。“求求您,”她把話說完,“您一定要讓我嫁給喬佛里,我會當個好妻子的,真的,我保證會當個像您一樣的王后。”
Queen Cersei looked to the others. "My lords of the council, what do you say to her plea?"
瑟曦王后看看其他人。“諸位重臣大人,關于她的請求,您們有何看法?”
The poor child, murmured Varys. "A love so true and innocent, Your Grace, it would be cruel to deny it... and yet, what can we do? Her father stands condemned." His soft hands washed each other in a gesture of helpless distress.
“可憐的孩子,”瓦里斯喃喃道,“王后陛下,多么純潔的一片癡情,若不答應她未免也太殘忍了……但話又說回來,她父親終究難辭其咎,我們還能怎么樣呢?”他柔軟的雙手相互搓揉,做出無助又無奈的手勢。
A child born of traitor's seed will find that betrayal comes naturally to her, said Grand Maester Pycelle. "She is a sweet thing now, but in ten years, who can say what treasons she may hatch?"
“既然是叛國者的種,只怕背叛之性已在她心中生根發芽。”派席爾國師道,“她眼下是個討人喜歡的好孩子,可十年以后會怎樣呢?誰也說不準。”
No, Sansa said, horrified. "I'm not, I'd never... I wouldn't betray Joffrey, I love him, I swear it, I do."
“不,”珊莎驚恐地說,“我不是,我不會……我絕不會背叛喬佛里,我愛他啊,我發誓我真的愛他。”