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She sighed.
她嘆口氣。
Edmure was not as strong as he seemed.
艾德慕并沒外表顯示的那么堅強，
Their father’s death had been a mercy when it came at last, but even so her brother had taken it hard.
盡管父親早已垂危彌留，但他仍難以接受此刻的現實。
Last night in his cups he had broken down and wept, full of regrets for things undone and words unsaid.
昨晚，醉酒以后，他整個人精神崩潰，痛哭失聲，懊悔自己沒做的事和沒說的話。
He ought never to have ridden off to fight his battle on the fords, he told her tearfully; he should have stayed at their father’s bedside.
他淚眼朦朧地告訴她，不該去渡口迎戰蘭尼斯特，而要一直守在父親床邊。
“I should have been with him, as you were,” he said.
“我該和你一樣，我該陪著他，”他哭訴，
“Did he speak of me at the end?
“他最后提到我沒有？
Tell me true, Cat.
告訴我實話，凱特，
Did he ask for me?”
他問過我嗎？”
Lord Hoster’s last word had been “Tansy,” but Catelyn could not bring herself to tell him that.
霍斯特公爵臨死時只說了一句“艾菊”，但凱特琳不忍將事實告訴弟弟。
“He whispered your name,”
“他輕聲念著你的名字，然后故去?！?/p>
she lied, and her brother had nodded gratefully and kissed her hand.
她撒謊道，弟弟感激地點點頭，吻了她的手。
If he had not tried to drown his grief and guilt, he might have been able to bend a bow, she thought to herself, sighing,
若他不是沉溺在悲痛和罪惡感中，一定會射中的，她勉強告訴自己，
but that was something else she dare not say.
除此之外不愿多想。
The Blackfish escorted her down from the battlements to where Robb stood among his bannermen, his young queen at his side.
黑魚伴他走下城垛，來到羅柏與諸侯們聚集的地方，年輕的王后正在國王身邊。
When he saw her, her son took her silently in his arms.
兒子看見她，沉默地執起她的手。
“Lord Hoster looked as noble as a king, my lady,” murmured Jeyne.
“霍斯特公爵跟王者一樣高貴，”簡妮低聲道，
“Would that I had been given the chance to know him.”
“我有機會陪伴他就好了?！?/p>
“And I to know him better,” added Robb.
“我也是。”羅柏贊同。
“He would have wished that too,” said Catelyn.
“這同樣是他的心愿，”凱特琳說，
“There were too many leagues between Riverrun and Winterfell.”
“可惜臨冬城和奔流城之間相隔萬里?！?/p>
And too many mountains and rivers and armies between Riverrun and the Eyrie, it would seem.
是啊，鷹巢城和奔流城之間也隔著無數山脈、河流和軍隊，
Lysa had made no reply to her letter.
可惜萊莎至今沒有只言片語傳來。
And from King’s Landing came only silence as well.
君臨方面也沒反應。
By now she had hoped that Brienne and Ser Cleos would have reached the city with their captive.
按時間計算，布蕾妮和克里奧爵士應已押送俘虜到了都城，
It might even be that Brienne was on her way back, and the girls with her.
或許布蕾妮此刻正帶著她的女兒們返回呢。
Ser Cleos swore he would make the Imp send a raven once the trade was made.
可……克里奧爵士發誓一旦小惡魔遵守諾言，釋放珊莎，就放烏鴉回來通報，
He swore it!
他發過誓！
Ravens did not always win through.
不，烏鴉不一定能順利穿越，
Some bowman could have brought the bird down and roasted him for supper.
或許被土匪射了下來，烤熟后當晚餐；
The letter that would have set her heart at ease might even now be lying by the ashes of some campfire beside a pile of raven bones.
或許那封她心之關切的信此刻正躺在營火的灰燼中，和鴉骨為伴。
Others were waiting to offer Robb their consolations,
諸侯們依次上前，向羅柏致以慰問，
so Catelyn stood aside patiently while Lord Jason Mallister, the Greatjon,
凱特琳耐心地站在一旁。杰森·梅利斯特伯爵、大瓊恩、羅佛·斯派瑟爵士……
and Ser Rolph Spicer spoke to him each in turn.
隨后是羅索·佛雷。
But when Lothar Frey approached, she gave his sleeve a tug.
她趕緊拉扯兒子的衣袖，
Robb turned, and waited to hear what Lothar would say.
于是羅柏全神貫注地傾聽對方的話。
“Your Grace.”
“陛下，”
A plump man in his middle thirties, Lothar Frey had close-set eyes,
肥胖的羅索·佛雷現年三十多歲，一對眼睛挨得很近，
a pointed beard, and dark hair that fell to his shoulders in ringlets.
尖胡子，黑卷發披到肩上，
A leg twisted at birth had earned him the name Lame Lothar.
由于天生一條腿扭曲殘疾，故得名“跛子羅索”。
He had served as his father’s steward for the past dozen years.
成年以來，他已為父親當了十余年的總管。
“We are loath to intrude upon your grief, but perhaps you might grant us audience tonight?”
“在此舉國哀悼之際，我極不愿打擾您的思慮。或許……可否安排今晚接見？”
“It would be my pleasure,” said Robb.
“這提議很好，”羅柏道，
“It was never my wish to sow enmity between us.”
“我們彼此不該有嫌隙。”
“Nor mine to be the cause of it,” said Queen Jeyne.
“這也是我的心愿，”簡妮王后說。
Lothar Frey smiled.
羅索·佛雷微笑道：
“I understand, as does my lord father.
“兩位陛下，我和我父親大人都很明白您們的心情。
He instructed me to say that he was young once, and well remembers what it is like to lose one’s heart to beauty.”
父親特意托我轉告您們，他也曾年輕過，也曾迷醉于少女的美麗?！?/p>
Catelyn doubted very much that Lord Walder had said any such thing, or that he had ever lost his heart to beauty.
凱特琳非常懷疑瓦德侯爵會說出這種話。迷醉于少女的美麗？
The Lord of the Crossing had outlived seven wives and was now wed to his eighth,
河渡口領主娶過七次老婆，現今已是第八個，
but he spoke of them only as bedwarmers and brood mares.
他從來把女人當成能暖床和生孩子的動物。
Still, the words were fairly spoken, and she could scarce object to the compliment.
但不管怎么說，對方言語極其得體，她都無法挑剔。
Nor did Robb.
羅柏也是
“Your father is most gracious,” he said.
“你父親實在太寬容，”國王道，
“I shall look forward to our talk.”
“我期待著與你的會談。”
Lothar bowed, kissed the queen’s hand, and withdrew.
羅索鞠了一躬，并吻了王后的手之后退下，
By then a dozen others had gathered for a word.
接著又有十來人上前致意。
Robb spoke with them each, giving a thanks here, a smile there, as needed.
羅柏一一作答，根據情況，或表示感謝，或微笑鼓勵。
Only when the last of them was done did he turn back to Catelyn.
等人們散盡，他轉向凱特琳，
“There is something we must speak of.
“有些事我們得談談，
Will you walk with me?”
你能和我走一段嗎？”
