評論
打印
"Winterfell!" she heard Robb shout as the arrows sighed again. He moved away from her at a trot, leading his men downhill.
“臨冬城萬歲！”當箭雨再度落下，她聽見羅柏高喊。他從她身邊急馳向前，當先率領部下朝河谷俯沖。
Catelyn sat on her horse, unmoving, with Hal Mollen and her guard around her, and she waited as she had waited before, for Brandon and Ned and her father. She was high on the ridge, and the trees hid most of what was going on beneath her. A heartbeat, two, four, and suddenly it was as if she and her protectors were alone in the wood. The rest were melted away into the green.
凱特琳靜坐馬上，一動不動。哈爾·莫蘭和貼身護衛們環繞四周，而她只是靜靜等待，一如當年等待布蘭登，等待奈德，等待父親。她置身高高的山脊上，樹林幾乎完全遮蔽了下方的戰事。她的心狂亂地跳動，一下、兩下、四下，突然間，森林里似乎只剩下她和她的護衛，余人皆已融進無邊的綠色中。
Yet when she looked across the valley to the far ridge, she saw the Greatjon's riders emerge from the darkness beneath the trees. They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest part of a heartbeat, when all Catelyn saw was the moonlight on the points of their lances, as if a thousand willowisps were coming down the ridge, wreathed in silver flame.
然而，當她抬眼，望向河谷對面的山脊，卻見到大瓊恩的騎兵自密林黑影后現身，排成無止無盡的長長橫隊，開始沖鋒。當他們自樹林中激迸而出時，在那么細微的心跳瞬間，凱特琳看到月光灑落槍尖，仿如千只包裹銀焰的螢火蟲，朝山下撲去。
Then she blinked, and they were only men, rushing down to kill or die.
她眨眨眼。他們不過是人，朝山谷俯沖的戰士，要么殺人，要么被殺。
Afterward, she could not claim she had seen the battle. Yet she could hear, and the valley rang with echoes. The crack of a broken lance, the clash of swords, the cries of "Lannister" and "Winterfell" and "Tully! Riverrun and Tully!"
事后她雖不能宣稱親睹戰事，卻至少可說聽聞全程。河谷里回音激蕩，有斷折長槍的劈啪，刀劍交擊的響動，以及“蘭尼斯特萬歲！”“臨冬城萬歲！”和“徒利家萬歲！為奔流城與徒利家而戰！”的吶喊。
