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Brienne brought the king's gauntlets and greathelm, crowned with golden antlers that would add a foot and a half to his height.
布蕾妮拿來國王的手套和巨盔。盔上裝飾著黃金鹿角，約有一尺半長。
"The time for talk is done.
“談判的時間已然過去，
Now we see who is stronger."
如今是比試力量的時刻。”
Renly pulled a lobstered green-and-gold gauntlet over his left hand, while Brienne knelt to buckle on his belt, heavy with the weight of longsword and dagger.
藍禮把龍蝦狀、金綠相間的手套穿進左手，布蕾妮則跪在地上替他系腰帶，腰帶因長劍和匕首的關系而顯得沉重。
"I beg you in the name of the Mother,"
“以圣母的名義，我懇求您，”
Catelyn began when a sudden gust of wind flung open the door of the tent.
凱特琳喊道，忽然一陣風吹開了帳門。
She thought she glimpsed movement, but when she turned her head, it was only the king's shadow shifting against the silken walls.
她覺得自己似乎看見某個東西移了進來，可當她回過頭去，只有國王的影子映照在絲制篷布上，變換搖曳。
She heard Renly begin a jest, his shadow moving, lifting its sword, black on green, candles guttering,
只聽藍禮說了個笑話，他的影子也隨之遷移，提起劍。綠帳浮現黑的陰霾，燭火閃爍顫抖的光。
shivering, something was queer, wrong, and then she saw Renly's sword still in its scabbard, sheathed still, but the shadowsword...
事情變得很奇特，很不對勁，她發現藍禮的劍還好端端地別在腰間，并未出鞘，而那影子般的劍……
"Cold," said Renly in a small puzzled voice,
“好冷，”藍禮用一種細微而迷惘的語調說，
a heartbeat before the steel of his gorget parted like cheesecloth beneath the shadow of a blade that was not there.
半晌之后，護喉處的鋼板就如棉布一般被輕輕劃開，被一柄并不存在的影子劍劃開。
He had time to make a small thick gasp before the blood came gushing out of his throat.
他只來得及發出一聲細小而粗濁的喘息，噴涌的鮮血便阻塞了喉嚨。
"Your Gr—no!" cried Brienne the Blue when she saw that evil flow, sounding as scared as any little girl.
“陛——不！”當那邪惡的噴流脫韁而出時，藍衣衛布蕾妮撕心裂肺地哭嚎起來，和尋常受驚的小女孩無異。
The king stumbled into her arms, a sheet of blood creeping down the front of his armor, a dark red tide that drowned his green and gold.
國王蹣跚著倒在她懷中，大片的鮮血在盔甲前流淌，暗黑的潮流淹沒了綠色與金色。
More candles guttered out.
蠟燭紛紛熄滅。
Renly tried to speak, but he was choking on his own blood.
藍禮掙扎著想開口，卻被自己的鮮血哽住。
His legs collapsed, and only Brienne's strength held him up.
的雙腿已然傾頹，全然憑借布蕾妮的力量支撐。
She threw back her head and screamed, wordless in her anguish.
他她仰起頭，放聲呼叫，卻在極度苦痛中無法吐詞。
The shadow Something dark and evil had happened here, she knew, something that she could not begin to understand.
影子。某種既黑暗又邪惡的事情正在此地發生，她知道，這是一種她所無法了解的事情。
Renly never cast that shadow Death came in that door and blew the life out of him as swift as the wind snuffed out his candles.
那影子不是藍禮的身影。死亡從門外而來，奪走了他的生命，迅疾一如吹滅燭火的狂風。
Only a few instants passed before Robar Royce and Emmon Cuy came bursting in, though it felt like half the night.
數秒之后，羅拔·羅伊斯和埃蒙·庫伊闖了進來，然而凱特琳卻覺得似乎過了半個夜晚。
A pair of men-at-arms crowded in behind with torches.
兩名手執火把的軍士緊隨其后。
