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Lord Blackwood agreed, to Catelyn's surprise and dismay. "And if we do make peace with King Joffrey, are we not then traitors to King Renly? What if the stag should prevail against the lion, where would that leave us?"
令凱特琳意外和沮喪的是，布萊伍德大人竟也同意他的說法：“就算我們和喬佛里國王達成和議，豈不又成了藍禮國王眼中的叛徒？若是獅鹿相爭鹿得勝，我們又怎么辦？”
Whatever you may decide for yourselves, I shall never call a Lannister my king, declared Marq Piper.
“無論你們作何決定，反正我絕不承認蘭尼斯特家的人是國王。”馬柯·派柏爵士宣布。
Nor I! yelled the little Darry boy. "I never will!"
“我也不會！”戴瑞家的小男孩叫道，“我絕不會！”
Again the shouting began. Catelyn sat despairing. She had come so close, she thought. They had almost listened, almost... but the moment was gone. There would be no peace, no chance to heal, no safety. She looked at her son, watched him as he listened to the lords debate, frowning, troubled, yet wedded to his war. He had pledged himself to marry a daughter of Walder Frey, but she saw his true bride plain before her now: the sword he had laid on the table.
眾人再度互相大呼小叫。凱特琳絕望地坐著，差一點就說服他們了，她心想，他們幾乎就要聽從她了，就差那么一點……然而時機稍縱即逝，議和的希望已然破滅，再也沒有機會療傷止痛，保護兒女們安全了。她看看兒子，看著他聆聽諸侯爭論。他皺眉、困擾，已經全然與這場戰爭密不可分。他承諾將娶瓦德·佛雷的女兒為妻，但她看得出他真正的新娘是眼前桌上的那把劍。
Catelyn was thinking of her girls, wondering if she would ever see them again, when the Greatjon lurched to his feet.
凱特琳想著兩個女兒，不知今生是否還有機會見面，這時大瓊恩一躍而起。
MY LORDS! he shouted, his voice booming off the rafters. "Here is what I say to these two kings!" He spat. "Renly Baratheon is nothing to me, nor Stannis neither. Why should they rule over me and mine, from some flowery seat in Highgarden or Dorne? What do they know of the Wall or the wolfswood or the barrows of the First Men? Even their gods are wrong.
“諸位大人！”他高聲大喝，聲音在屋宇間回蕩。“聽我說說我對這兩個國王的看法！”他啐了一口。“藍禮·拜拉席恩對我來說狗屁不是，史坦尼斯也一樣，憑什么讓坐在滿地開花的高庭或多恩的人來統治我們？他們哪里懂得絕境長城、狼林和先民荒冢？就連他們信奉的神也不是真神。
