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Brienne dropped to her knees.
布蕾妮猛地跪下。
"If I must part from Your Grace, grant me the honor of arming you for battle."
“陛下，如果我真的必須和您分別，就請您給予我在戰斗前為您穿戴盔甲的榮譽吧。”
Catelyn heard someone snigger behind her.
凱特琳聽見身后有人竊笑。
She loves him, poor thing, she thought sadly.
她愛他，可憐的人，她悲傷地想，
She'd play his squire just to touch him, and never care how great a fool they think her.
她扮演侍從就為了能碰碰他，絲毫不在意在別人眼底她是個多么可笑的傻瓜。
"Granted," Renly said.
“我準了，”藍禮說。
"Now leave me, all of you.
“現在解散吧，全體解散。
Even kings must rest before a battle."
國王在打仗前也是需要休息的。”
"My lord," Catelyn said, "there was a small sept in the last village we passed.
“大人，”凱特琳道，“我們來時經過的最后一個村莊有間小小的圣堂。
If you will not permit me to depart for Riverrun, grant me leave to go there and pray."
如果您不準我返回奔流城，就請您準許我到那里去禱告吧。”
"As you will.
“如您所愿。
Ser Robar, give Lady Stark safe escort to this sept... but see that she returns to us by dawn."
羅拔爵士，請把史塔克夫人平安地護送到那間圣堂……并在黎明前將她帶回來。”
"You might do well to pray yourself," Catelyn added.
“您自己也應該禱告。”凱特琳補充道。
"For victory?" "For wisdom."
“為了勝利？”“為了理智。”
Renly laughed. "Loras, stay and help me pray.
藍禮大笑：“洛拉斯，請先留下，幫我作禱告。
It's been so long I've quite forgotten how.
很久沒祈禱，恐怕都忘記該怎么說嘍。
As to the rest of you, I want every man in place by first light, armed, armored, and horsed.
至于其他人，我要求你們在第一縷晨光出現之時準備就緒，穿戴盔甲，拿好武器，翻身上馬。
We shall give Stannis a dawn he will not soon forget."
明早將成為史坦尼斯永生難忘的一個清晨。”
Dusk was falling when Catelyn left the pavilion.
凱特琳離開大帳時，日頭已降下大半。
Ser Robar Royce fell in beside her.
羅拔·羅伊斯爵士和她并轡而行。
She knew him slightly—one of Bronze Yohn's sons, comely in a rough-hewn way, a tourney warrior of some renown.
他的身世她略微有些了解——青銅約恩的兒子之一，總體來看長得還算不錯，在各地比武會里是個小有名氣的角色。
Renly had gifted him with a rainbow cloak and a suit of blood red armor, and named him one of his seven.
藍禮賜予他彩虹披風和一套血紅鎧甲，封他為彩虹護衛之一。
"You are a long way from the Vale, ser," she told him.
“你離開谷地很遠了呢，爵士，”她告訴他。
"And you far from Winterfell, my lady."
“您自己離開臨冬城不也很遠么，夫人。”
"I know what brought me here, but why have you come?
“我知道自己來此所為何事，那么你呢？
This is not your battle, no more than it is mine."
這不是你的戰爭，正如它不是我的。”
"I made it my battle when I made Renly my king."
“從我承認藍禮是我的國王那一刻起，這已經是我的戰爭。”
"The Royces are bannermen to House Arryn."
“羅伊斯家族可是艾林家族的封臣。”
"My lord father owes Lady Lysa fealty, as does his heir.
“我的父親大人固然該向萊莎夫人效忠，他的繼承人亦然。
A second son must find glory where he can." Ser Robar shrugged.
然而，他的次子卻必須去別處追尋榮譽。”羅拔爵士聳聳肩。
"A man grows weary of tourneys."
“我只是厭倦了比武會。”
He could not be older than one-and-twenty, Catelyn thought, of an age with his king...
他最多只有二十一二歲，凱特琳暗想，和他的國王一般大……
but her king, her Robb, had more wisdom at fifteen than this youth had ever learned.
不過她的國王，她的羅柏，雖只弱冠十五，卻比眼前這個年輕人懂事得多。
Or so she prayed.
至少她如此祈禱。
In Catelyn's small corner of the camp, Shadd was slicing carrots into a kettle,
在凱特琳的小小營區內，夏德正往罐里削蘿卜，
Hal Mollen was dicing with three of his Winterfell men, and Lucas Blackwood sat sharpening his dagger.
哈爾·莫蘭和三個臨冬城的兵丁賭色子，而盧卡斯·布萊伍德坐著磨匕首。
"Lady Stark," Lucas said when he saw her,
“史塔克夫人，”盧卡斯一見她便喊，
"Mollen says it is to be battle at dawn."
“莫蘭說天亮時便要開戰？”
"Hal has the truth of it," she answered.
“哈爾說的沒錯，”她答道。
And a loose tongue as well, it would seem.
我倒忘了，他實在是個多嘴的家伙。
"Do we fight or flee?"
“我們是打還是走？”
"We pray, Lucas," she answered him. "We pray."
“我們祈禱，盧卡斯，”她回答他，“我們祈禱。”
