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He had told them. He had told them all.
這番話他告訴過他們，告訴過所有人。
Some of them didn’t believe him, he knew.
但他知道，許多人并不相信。
Dirk had shown Sam his dirk and said,
短刃取出自己的匕首，
“I got iron, what do I want with glass?”
“我有鐵家伙，要玻璃干什么？”
Black Bernarr and the three Garths made it plain that they doubted his whole story, and Rolley of Sisterton came right out and said,
黑伯納和三個加爾斯明確表示懷疑這整個故事，而姐妹堡的羅利直接了當，
“More like you stabbed some rustling bushes and it turned out to be Small Paul taking a shit, so you came up with a lie.”
“很可能是你朝沙沙作響的灌木叢亂刺，碰巧殺了拉屎的小保羅，于是就編造謊言。”
But Dywen listened, and Dolorous Edd, and they made Sam and Grenn tell the Lord Commander.
但戴文和憂郁的艾迪是認真的，他們還帶山姆和葛蘭去見總司令。
Mormont frowned all through the tale and asked pointed questions, but he was too cautious a man to shun any possible advantage.
雖然莫爾蒙在聽講過程中一直皺緊眉頭，提出尖銳的問題，可他細心謹慎，不放過任何可能的收獲。
He asked Sam for all the dragonglass in his pack, though that was little enough.
他要山姆把包里所有龍晶交出來，雖然那并不多。
Whenever Sam thought of the cache Jon had found buried beneath the Fist, it made him want to cry.
每當山姆想起埋在先民拳峰下，被瓊恩發現的那批龍晶，心里就直想哭。
There’d been dagger blades and spearheads, and two or three hundred arrowheads at least.
那里不僅有匕首刀刃和矛尖，還有至少兩三百個箭頭啊。
Jon had made daggers for himself, Sam, and Lord Commander Mormont, and he’d given Sam a spearhead, an old broken horn, and some arrowheads.
瓊恩為自己、山姆和莫爾蒙總司令各做了一把匕首，還給山姆一個矛尖、一只破號角和一些箭頭，
Grenn had taken a handful of arrowheads as well, but that was all.
葛蘭也抓了一把箭頭，多的就沒有了。
So now all they had was Mormont’s dagger and the one Sam had given Grenn,
于是現今只有莫爾蒙的匕首，山姆交給葛蘭的匕首，
plus nineteen arrows and a tall hardwood spear with a black dragonglass head.
外加十九支箭和一柄綁上黑色龍晶的硬木長矛。
The sentries passed the spear along from watch to watch, while Mormont had divided the arrows among his best bowmen.
崗哨輪班時這支長矛依次交換，莫爾蒙還把箭分給手下最好的弓箭手。
Muttering Bill, Garth Greyfeather, Ronnel Harclay, Sweet Donnel Hill, and Alan of Rosby had three apiece, and Ulmer had four.
“嘮叨”比爾、“灰羽”加爾斯、羅納·哈克萊、“美女”唐納·希山和羅斯比的阿蘭各有三支，烏爾馬分到四支。
But even if they made every shaft tell, they’d soon be down to fire arrows like all the rest.
但即使他們發發中的，也很快只能用回火箭。
They had loosed hundreds of fire arrows on the Fist, yet still the wights kept coming.
在先民拳峰，人們射出數百支火箭，卻無法阻擋尸鬼的進攻。
It will not be enough, Sam thought.
這是不夠的，山姆心想，
Craster’s sloping palisades of mud and melting snow would hardly slow the wights,
卡斯特的土堤和濕泥融雪遲滯不了尸鬼的步伐，就連先民拳峰的陡坡都不起作用。
who’d climbed the much steeper slopes of the Fist to swarm over the ringwall.
它們依舊頑強地爬上來，涌入環墻。
And instead of three hundred brothers drawn up in disciplined ranks to meet them,
這次尸鬼會發現，迎接他們的不再是三百紀律嚴明、陣容整齊的弟兄，
the wights would find forty-one ragged survivors, nine too badly hurt to fight.
而是四十一個狼狽不堪的幸存者，其中有九個傷勢嚴重，無法參戰。
Forty-four had come straggling into Craster’s out of the storm, out of the sixty-odd who’d cut their way free of the Fist,
一共六十多人從先民拳峰殺出，四十四人頂著暴風雪逃回卡斯特的堡壘，
but three of those had died of their wounds, and Bannen would soon make four.
這幾天，又有三人傷重而亡，巴棱很快將成為第四個。
“Do you think the wights are gone?”
“你認為尸鬼都走了嗎？”
Sam asked Grenn.
山姆問葛蘭，
“Why don’t they come finish us?”
“它們為什么不把我們全干掉？”
“They only come when it’s cold.”
“我想，它們大概只有天冷的時候才來吧。”
“Yes,” said Sam,
“對，”山姆說，
“but is it the cold that brings the wights, or the wights that bring the cold?”
“但是寒冷帶來尸鬼，還是尸鬼帶來寒冷呢？”
“Who cares?”
“誰管它呀？”
Grenn’s axe sent wood chips flying.
葛蘭的斧子劈得木屑到處飛散，
“They come together, that’s what matters.
“反正有鬼必冷，這才關鍵。
Hey, now that we know that dragonglass kills them, maybe they won’t come at all.
嘿，現在知道龍晶是它們的克星，也許它們根本不敢來了，
Maybe they’re frightened of us now!”
也許它們現在怕得要命！”
Sam wished he could believe that, but it seemed to him that when you were dead, fear had no more meaning than pain or love or duty.
山姆希望自己可以相信朋友的話，但在他看來，人死了的話，就不會害怕和痛苦，正如沒有責任與愛情。
He wrapped his hands around his legs, sweating under his layers of wool and leather and fur.
他雙手環膝，層層羊毛、皮革和毛皮下冒出冷汗。
The dragonglass dagger had melted the pale thing in the woods, true …
沒錯，龍晶匕首能讓樹林里那個蒼白的東西融化……
but Grenn was talking like it would do the same to the wights.
但葛蘭的意思好像它也能讓尸鬼融化。
We don’t know that, he thought.
其實我們并不知道，他想，
We don’t know anything, really.
我們什么都不知道。
I wish Jon was here.
好希望瓊恩在這兒。
He liked Grenn, but he couldn’t talk to him the same way.
他喜歡葛蘭，但無法分享對方的思維方式。
Jon wouldn’t call me Slayer, I know.
瓊恩不會叫我殺手，
And I could talk to him about Gilly’s baby.
我還可以跟他談吉莉的孩子。
Jon had ridden off with Qhorin Halfhand, though, and they’d had no word of him since.
然而瓊恩與斷掌科林一同離去，杳無音信。
He had a dragonglass dagger too, but did he think to use it?
他也有一把龍晶匕首，派上用場了嗎？
Is he lying dead and frozen in some ravine …
他是不是已經凍死在某個溝壑中……
or worse, is he dead and walking?
或者更糟，變成了活死人？
He could not understand why the gods would want to take Jon Snow and Bannen and leave him, craven and clumsy as he was.
他不明白諸神為什么帶走瓊恩·雪諾和巴棱，卻留下怯懦而笨拙的自己。
He should have died on the Fist, where he’d pissed himself three times and lost his sword besides.
他早該死在先民拳峰，在那兒他尿了三次褲子，還弄丟了劍；
And he would have died in the woods if Small Paul had not come along to carry him.
而后來若不是小保羅抱他，他也一定會死在森林里。
