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The comet's tail spread across the dawn, a red slash that bled above the crags of Dragonstone like a wound in the pink and purple sky.
彗星的尾巴劃過清晨，好似紫紅天幕上的一道傷口，在龍石島的危崖絕壁上空汩汩泣血。
The maester stood on the windswept balcony outside his chambers. It was here the ravens came, after long flight. Their droppings speckled the gargoyles that rose twelve feet tall on either side of him, a hellhound and a wyvern, two of the thousand that brooded over the walls of the ancient fortress. When first he came to Dragonstone, the army of stone grotesques had made him uneasy, but as the years passed he had grown used to them. Now he thought of them as old friends. The three of them watched the sky together with foreboding.
老學士獨自佇立在臥房外狂風怒吼的陽臺上。信鴉長途跋涉之后，正是于此停息。兩尊十二尺高的石像立在兩側，一邊是地獄犬，一邊是長翼龍，其上灑布著烏鴉糞便。這樣的石像鬼為數(shù)過千，蹲踞于瓦雷利亞古城高墻之上。當年他初抵龍石島，曾因滿城的猙獰石像而局促不安。隨著時光流逝，他已日漸習慣，如今他視他們?yōu)槔嫌眩瞬⒓纾枫凡话驳啬灬 ?/div>
The maester did not believe in omens. And yet... old as he was, Cressen had never seen a comet half so bright, nor yet that color, that terrible color, the color of blood and flame and sunsets. He wondered if his gargoyles had ever seen its like. They had been here so much longer than he had, and would still be here long after he was gone. If stone tongues could speak...
老學士向來不信預兆，話雖如此，但活到這把年紀，克禮森還真沒見過如此璀亮的彗星，更沒見過這番混雜鮮血、烈焰與落日的駭人顏色。他不禁懷疑自己的石像鬼朋友可否目睹，畢竟它們早在他到來之前便已安居于此，而在他身殞之后亦將長存。如果石像會說話就好了……
Such folly. He leaned against the battlement, the sea crashing beneath him, the black stone rough beneath his fingers.
真是荒唐。他倚靠雉堞，手指摩擦著粗糙的黑石表面，下方惡浪襲岸。
