JON
? 19瓊恩
The courtyard rang to the song of swords.
刀劍鏗鏘響徹廣場(chǎng)毅戈。
Under black wool, boiled leather, and mail,
sweat trickled icily down Jon’s chest as he pressed the attack. Grenn stumbled
backward, defending himself clumsily. When he raised his sword, Jon went
underneath it with a sweeping blow that crunched against the back of the other
boy’s leg and sent him staggering. Grenn’s downcut was answered by an overhand
that dented his helm. When he tried a sideswing, Jon swept aside his blade and
slammed a mailed forearm into his chest. Grenn lost his footing and sat down
hard in the snow. Jon knocked his sword from his fingers with a slash to his
wrist that brought a cry of pain.
瓊恩穿著黑羊毛衫，外罩皮革背心和鎖子甲型凳，內(nèi)里汗如雨下。他向前進(jìn)逼，葛蘭腳步不穩(wěn)地后退埋嵌，笨拙地舉劍格擋第献。他剛舉劍贡必，瓊恩便猛力一揮攻他下盤(pán)，擊中他的腳庸毫，打得他步伐踉蹌仔拟。葛蘭向下還擊，頭上卻挨了一記過(guò)肩砍飒赃，將他的頭盔打凹利花。他又使出一記側(cè)劈，結(jié)果瓊恩撥開(kāi)他的劍载佳，然后用戴了護(hù)腕的手肘撞擊他的腹部炒事。葛蘭重心不穩(wěn)，狠狠地跌坐在雪地里蔫慧。瓊恩跟上砍中他的腕關(guān)節(jié)挠乳，痛得他慘叫一聲丟下劍。
“Enough!” Ser
Alliser Thorne had a voice with an edge like Valyrian steel.
“夠了姑躲！”艾里沙·索恩爵士的話音如瓦雷利亞刀鋒裂空睡扬。
Grenn cradled his hand. “The bastard broke
my wrist.”
葛蘭揉著手道：“這野種把我手腕打脫臼了±吡”
“The bastard
hamstrung you, opened your empty skull, and cut off your hand. Or would have,
if these blades had an edge. It’s fortunate for you that the Watch needs
stableboys as well as rangers.” Ser Alliser gestured at Jeren and Toad. “Get
the Aurochs on his feet, he has funeral arrangements to make.”
“假如用的真劍威蕉，野種早已挑斷你的腿筋，劈開(kāi)你的腦袋瓜子橄仍，砍斷你的雙手了韧涨。算你走運(yùn)牍戚，我們守夜人需要的不只是游騎兵，也需要馬房小弟虑粥∪缧ⅲ”艾里沙爵士朝杰倫和陶德?lián)]手道：“把這頭笨牛扶起來(lái)，他可以準(zhǔn)備辦喪事了娩贷〉谖”
Jon took off his helm as the other boys
were pulling Grenn to his feet. The frosty morning air felt good on his face.
He leaned on his sword, drew a deep breath, and allowed himself a moment to
savor the victory.
其他的男孩攙扶葛蘭起身，瓊恩脫下頭盔彬祖，結(jié)霜的晨氣吹在臉上茁瘦，感覺(jué)很舒服。他拄劍而立储笑，深吸一口氣甜熔，容許自己短暫地享受勝利的喜悅。
“That is a
longsword, not an old man’s cane,” Ser Alliser said sharply. “Are your legs
hurting, Lord Snow?”
“那是劍突倍，不是老人的拐杖腔稀。”艾里沙爵士尖銳地說(shuō)羽历，“雪諾大人焊虏，您可是腳痛？”
Jon hated that name, a mockery that Ser
Alliser had hung on him the first day he came to practice. The boys had picked
it up, and now he heard it everywhere. He slid the longsword back into its
scabbard. “No,” he replied.
瓊恩恨透了這個(gè)綽號(hào)秕磷，打從他練劍的第一天起诵闭，艾里沙爵士便這么叫他。其他男孩子有樣學(xué)樣澎嚣，現(xiàn)在人人都這么稱呼他了涂圆。他將長(zhǎng)劍回鞘”姨荆“不是∧Ｏ粒”
Thorne strode toward him, crisp black
leathers whispering faintly as he moved. He was a compact man of fifty years,
spare and hard, with grey in his black hair and eyes like chips of onyx. “The
truth now,” he commanded.
索恩大跨步朝他走來(lái)颈抚，脆硬的黑皮革發(fā)出悉悉窣窣的聲響。他約莫五十歲嚼鹉，體格結(jié)實(shí)贩汉，精瘦而嚴(yán)峻，一頭黑發(fā)已有些灰白锚赤，而那雙眼睛卻如瑪瑙般炯炯有神匹舞。“那是怎么回事线脚？”他質(zhì)問(wèn)赐稽。
“I’m tired,” Jon
admitted. His arm burned from the weight of the longsword, and he was starting
to feel his bruises now that the fight was done.
“我累了叫榕。”瓊恩承認(rèn)姊舵。他的臂膀因?yàn)椴粩鄵]劍而感到酸麻晰绎，如今打斗結(jié)束，剛留下的擦傷也開(kāi)始痛了起來(lái)括丁。
“What you are is
weak.”
“這叫軟弱荞下。”
“I won.”
“可我贏了史飞〖饣瑁”
“No. The Aurochs
lost.”
“不。是笨牛他輸了构资〕樗撸”
One of the other boys sniggered. Jon knew
better than to reply. He had beaten everyone that Ser Alliser had sent against
him, yet it gained him nothing. The master-at-arms served up only derision.
Thorne hated him, Jon had decided; of course, he hated the other boys even
worse.
一個(gè)旁觀的男孩在偷偷竊笑。瓊恩很清楚自己絕不能頂嘴蚯窥。雖然他擊敗了每一個(gè)艾里沙爵士派來(lái)對(duì)付他的對(duì)手掸鹅，卻還是得不到應(yīng)有的待遇。教頭的嘴邊只有嘲笑和譏諷拦赠。索恩一定是討厭他巍沙，瓊恩暗自認(rèn)為；不過(guò)話說(shuō)回來(lái)荷鼠，索恩更討厭其他男孩句携。
“That will be
all,” Thorne told them. “I can only stomach so much ineptitude in any one day.
If the Others ever come for us, I pray they have archers, because you lot are
fit for nothing more than arrow fodder.”
“今天就到此為止≡世郑”索恩告訴他們矮嫉。“我對(duì)飯桶可沒(méi)什么耐性牍疏。假如哪天異鬼真打過(guò)來(lái)蠢笋，我倒希望他們帶上弓箭，因?yàn)槟銈冎慌洚?dāng)靶子鳞陨∽蚰”
Jon followed the rest back to the armory,
walking alone. He often walked alone here. There were almost twenty in the
group he trained with, yet not one he could call a friend. Most were two or
three years his senior, yet not one was half the fighter Robb had been at
fourteen. Dareon was quick but afraid of being hit. Pyp used his sword like a
dagger, Jeren was weak as a girl, Grenn slow and clumsy. Halder’s blows were
brutally hard but he ran right into your attacks. The more time he spent with
them, the more Jon despised them.
瓊恩跟著其他人返回兵器庫(kù)，孤零零地走在中間厦滤。他一直都孤零零的援岩。一起受訓(xùn)的小隊(duì)約有二十人，卻沒(méi)有一個(gè)稱得上是朋友掏导。多數(shù)人長(zhǎng)他兩三歲享怀，打起來(lái)卻連十四歲羅柏的一半都比不上。戴利恩動(dòng)作敏捷趟咆，但很怕挨打添瓷；派普老把劍當(dāng)匕首來(lái)使梅屉；杰倫弱得像個(gè)女孩子；葛蘭遲鈍又笨拙仰坦；霍德攻勢(shì)雖猛履植，可總是沒(méi)頭沒(méi)腦。瓊恩越是和這些人交手悄晃，就越鄙視他們玫霎。
Inside, Jon hung sword and scabbard from a
hook in the stone wall, ignoring the others around him. Methodically, he began
to strip off his mail, leather, and sweat-soaked woolens. Chunks of coal burned
in iron braziers at either end of the long room, but Jon found himself
shivering. The chill was always with him here. In a few years he would forget
what it felt like to be warm.
進(jìn)到室內(nèi)，瓊恩把入鞘的劍掛回石墻的鉤子上妈橄，刻意不理睬其他人庶近。他有條不紊地解下盔甲、皮衣和汗?jié)竦难蛎谰祢尽ｉL(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的房間兩端鼻种，鐵火盆里的煤炭熊熊燃燒，但瓊恩仍止不住發(fā)抖沙热。此地叉钥，寒意總是如影隨形，想必?cái)?shù)年之后他便會(huì)忘記溫暖的滋味篙贸。
The weariness came on him suddenly, as he
donned the roughspun blacks that were their everyday wear. He sat on a bench,
his fingers fumbling with the fastenings on his cloak. So cold, he thought,
remembering the warm halls of Winterfell, where the hot waters ran through the
walls like blood through a man’s body. There was scant warmth to be found in
Castle Black; the walls were cold here, and the people colder.
他穿上日常的粗布黑衣投队，倦怠感突然排山倒海般朝他襲來(lái)。他找條板凳坐下爵川，手指摸索著系上斗篷敷鸦。好冷啊，他一邊想寝贡，一邊回憶起臨冬城的廳堂扒披，那里有溫泉終年流貫壁壘之間，仿如人體內(nèi)流淌的血液圃泡。黑城堡里沒(méi)有暖意碟案，只有冰冷的墻壁，和更加冷漠的人颇蜡。
No one had told him the Night’s Watch would
be like this; no one except Tyrion Lannister. The dwarf had given him the truth
on the road north, but by then it had been too late. Jon wondered if his father
had known what the Wall would be like. He must have, he thought; that only made
it hurt the worse.
除了提利昂·蘭尼斯特蟆淀，沒(méi)人對(duì)他提過(guò)守夜人部隊(duì)竟是這副光景。那侏儒在他們北上途中把事情真相告訴了他澡匪，但那時(shí)已經(jīng)太遲了。瓊恩不禁懷疑父親知不知道長(zhǎng)城守軍的真正情形褒链。他一定知道唁情，想到這里他更覺(jué)心痛。
Even his uncle had abandoned him in this
cold place at the end of the world. Up here, the genial Benjen Stark he had
known became a different person. He was First Ranger, and he spent his days and
nights with Lord Commander Mormont and Maester Aemon and the other high
officers, while Jon was given over to the less than tender charge of Ser
Alliser Thorne.
就連叔叔甫匹，竟也這么把他遺棄在這世界盡頭的冰冷寒荒甸鸟。他原先所認(rèn)識(shí)的那個(gè)個(gè)性溫和的班揚(yáng)·史塔克惦费，到這里完全變了個(gè)人。他是首席游騎兵抢韭，整日與莫爾蒙總司令薪贫，伊蒙學(xué)士和其他高級(jí)官員為伍，而將瓊恩丟給壞脾氣的艾里沙·索恩爵士刻恭。
Three days after their arrival, Jon had
heard that Benjen Stark was to lead a half-dozen men on a ranging into the
haunted forest. That night he sought out his uncle in the great timbered common
hall and pleaded to go with him. Benjen refused him curtly. “This is not
Winterfell,” he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. “On the Wall,
a man gets only what he earns. You’re no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the
smell of summer still on you.”
他們抵達(dá)長(zhǎng)城三天后瞧省，瓊恩聽(tīng)說(shuō)班揚(yáng)·史塔克將率領(lǐng)六名手下深入鬼影森林巡察。當(dāng)天夜里鳍贾，他在城堡的木造大廳中找到叔叔鞍匾，央求他帶自己一道去。班揚(yáng)直截了當(dāng)?shù)鼗亟^了他骑科∠鹗纾“這可不是臨冬城，”他邊用刀叉切肉邊對(duì)他說(shuō)咆爽，“在長(zhǎng)城守軍里梁棠，想得到什么樣的待遇，就得證明自己有什么樣的本事斗埂。瓊恩符糊，你還不是游騎兵，你只是個(gè)稚氣未脫蜜笤，身上還殘留著夏天氣味的小鬼濒蒋。”
Stupidly, Jon argued. “I’ll be fifteen on
my name day,” he said. “Almost a man grown.”
瓊恩愚蠢地爭(zhēng)辯：“到明年命名日我就滿十五歲把兔，”他說(shuō)沪伙，“很快就要長(zhǎng)大成人了∠睾茫”
Benjen Stark frowned. “A boy you are, and a
boy you’ll remain until Ser Alliser says you are fit to be a man of the Night’s
Watch. If you thought your Stark blood would win you easy favors, you were
wrong. We put aside our old families when we swear our vows. Your father will
always have a place in my heart, but these are my brothers now.” He gestured
with his dagger at the men around them, all the hard cold men in black.
班揚(yáng)·史塔克皺眉道：“在艾里沙爵士判定你成為守夜人部隊(duì)的漢子之前拄衰，你都只是個(gè)小鬼阿宅，只能是個(gè)小鬼。假如你以為仗著自己史塔克家人的身份，就可以坐享其成点寥，那就大錯(cuò)而特錯(cuò)。我們宣誓入伍時(shí)碟嘴，早已斷絕一切身家背景鞋既。拿你父親來(lái)說(shuō)，雖然他會(huì)永遠(yuǎn)在我心中占據(jù)一席之地谍倦，但如今這些人才是我的手足兄弟塞赂。”他拿匕首朝身邊的人比劃兩下昼蛀，指指這些飽經(jīng)風(fēng)霜的黑衣戰(zhàn)士宴猾。
Jon rose at dawn the next day to watch his
uncle leave. One of his rangers, a big ugly man, sang a bawdy song as he
saddled his garron, his breath steaming in the cold morning air. Ben Stark
smiled at that, but he had no smile for his nephew. “How often must I tell you
no, Jon? We’ll speak when I return.”
翌日拂曉圆存，瓊恩起身目送他叔叔離去。叔叔手下一名高大而丑陋的游騎兵一邊裝配馬鞍仇哆，一邊高唱歌詞猥褻的曲子沦辙，吐出的氣息在清晨的冷氣里蒸騰。班揚(yáng)·史塔克對(duì)他是滿臉笑容讹剔，對(duì)自己侄子卻沒(méi)好氣油讯。“瓊恩辟拷，你要我說(shuō)多少遍撞羽？你不能去，等我回來(lái)我們?cè)僬視r(shí)間談?wù)勆蓝场诀紊！?/p>
As he watched his uncle lead his horse into
the tunnel, Jon had remembered the things that Tyrion Lannister told him on the
kingsroad, and in his mind’s eye he saw Ben Stark lying dead, his blood red on
the snow. The thought made him sick. What was he becoming?
瓊恩看著叔叔牽馬走進(jìn)隧道，向北而去隅俘，不禁想起提利昂·蘭尼斯特在國(guó)王大道上告訴過(guò)他的事邻奠，腦海里接連浮現(xiàn)出班揚(yáng)·史塔克倒臥雪地，血跡斑斑的情景为居。這個(gè)念頭令他反胃碌宴。我究竟成了個(gè)什么人？
Afterward he sought out Ghost in the
loneliness of his cell, and buried his face in his thick white fur.
之后他在孤單的臥室里找到白靈蒙畴，把臉深深地埋進(jìn)他厚厚的白毛皮贰镣。
If he must be alone, he would make solitude
his armor. Castle Black had no godswood, only a small sept and a drunken
septon, but Jon could not find it in him to pray to any gods, old or new. If
they were real, he thought, they were as cruel and implacable as winter.
既然他注定孤單，他便要化寂寞為力量膳凝。黑城堡沒(méi)有神木林碑隆，只有一間小小的圣堂和醉醺醺的修士，但瓊恩實(shí)在無(wú)心向神明禱告蹬音，管他是新神還是舊神上煤。他心里認(rèn)為，倘若諸神真的存在著淆，想必也是和這里的嚴(yán)冬一樣殘酷無(wú)情罷劫狠。
He missed his true brothers: little Rickon,
bright eyes shining as he begged for a sweet; Robb, his rival and best friend
and constant companion; Bran, stubborn and curious, always wanting to follow
and join in whatever Jon and Robb were doing. He missed the girls too, even
Sansa, who never called him anything but “my half brother” since she was old
enough to understand what bastard meant. And Arya?.?.?.?he missed her even more
than Robb, skinny little thing that she was, all scraped knees and tangled hair
and torn clothes, so fierce and willful. Arya never seemed to fit, no more than
he had?.?.?.?yet she could always make Jon smile. He would give anything to be
with her now, to muss up her hair once more and watch her make a face, to hear
her finish a sentence with him.
他想念自己真正的兄弟：小瑞肯想吃甜食時(shí)眼瞳閃閃發(fā)亮的神情；羅柏是他最旗鼓相當(dāng)?shù)膶?duì)手永部，也是他最要好的朋友和玩伴独泞；固執(zhí)又充滿好奇心的布蘭，不論瓊恩和羅柏做些什么苔埋，他總想插一腳懦砂。他也想念兩個(gè)妹妹，甚至包括那個(gè)自從懂得“私生子”的意思之后，就只肯以“我的同父異母哥哥”來(lái)稱呼他的珊莎孕惜。至于艾莉亞……這個(gè)老是磨破膝蓋，滿頭亂發(fā)晨炕，不然就是鉤破衣服衫画，一股牛脾氣的瘦巴巴小東西，他想念她的程度甚至超過(guò)羅柏瓮栗。艾莉亞和他一樣削罩，永遠(yuǎn)與環(huán)境格格不入……但她總有辦法讓瓊恩會(huì)心一笑。此時(shí)瓊恩愿意付出一切费奸，只換取能和她重聚片刻弥激，再撥弄她的亂發(fā)，再看她扮起鬼臉愿阐，再聽(tīng)她和自己心有靈犀地說(shuō)出同一句話微服。
“You broke my
wrist, bastard boy.”
“小雜種，你把我弄脫臼了缨历∫栽蹋”
Jon lifted his eyes at the sullen voice.
Grenn loomed over him, thick of neck and red of face, with three of his friends
behind him. He knew Todder, a short ugly boy with an unpleasant voice. The
recruits all called him Toad. The other two were the ones Yoren had brought
north with them, Jon remembered, rapers taken down in the Fingers. He’d
forgotten their names. He hardly ever spoke to them, if he could help it. They
were brutes and bullies, without a thimble of honor between them.
瓊恩抬眼朝那充滿怒意的聲源望去。葛蘭臉紅脖子粗地高高站在他面前辛孵，身后還有三個(gè)跟班丛肮。他認(rèn)出生得既矮且丑，還有副難聽(tīng)嗓音的陶德魄缚，新兵們都叫他癩哈蟆宝与。瓊恩想起另外兩個(gè)家伙是五指半島地方逮著的強(qiáng)奸犯，被尤倫帶到北方來(lái)的冶匹，不過(guò)他忘記名字了习劫。他想盡辦法不和他們說(shuō)話，他們?nèi)际巧詺埲痰膼喊葬愎瑁瑥牟恢獦s譽(yù)為何物榜聂。
Jon stood up. “I’ll break the other one for
you if you ask nicely.” Grenn was sixteen and a head taller than Jon. All four
of them were bigger than he was, but they did not scare him. He’d beaten every
one of them in the yard.
瓊恩霍地起身∩つⅲ“你如果好好求我须肆，我很樂(lè)意幫你把另一只手也打斷∽螅”葛蘭今年十六歲豌汇，整整比瓊恩高出一頭。他們個(gè)頭都比他大泄隔，但嚇不了他拒贱。他在校場(chǎng)上早就教訓(xùn)過(guò)每一個(gè)人。
“Maybe we’ll break
you,” one of the rapers said.
“說(shuō)不定斷手的是你哦÷甙模”其中一名強(qiáng)奸犯道闸天。
“Try.” Jon reached
back for his sword, but one of them grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his
back.
“有種你便試試⌒弊觯”瓊恩伸手拿劍苞氮，但對(duì)方中的一人抓住他的手，扭到背后瓤逼。
“You make us look bad,”
complained Toad.
“你老讓我們難看笼吟。”癩哈蟆抱怨霸旗。
“You looked bad
before I ever met you,” Jon told him. The boy who had his arm jerked upward on
him, hard. Pain lanced through him, but Jon would not cry out.
“咱們沒(méi)打照面以前贷帮，你們就夠難看啦∮崭妫”瓊恩告訴他們撵枢。抓住他手的男孩用力往后一擰，劇痛立刻直穿腦際蔬啡，但瓊恩依舊不吭一聲诲侮。
Toad stepped close. “The little lordling
has a mouth on him,” he said. He had pig eyes, small and shiny. “Is that your
mommy’s mouth, bastard? What was she, some whore? Tell us her name. Maybe I had
her a time or two.” He laughed.
癩哈蟆向前逼近幾步∠潴。“咱們小少爺生了張碎嘴沟绪，”他說(shuō)。他生得一雙小而亮的豬眼睛空猜≌来龋“小雜種，是不是你娘傳給你的氨蔡骸坝疼？她是做什么來(lái)著的，敢情是個(gè)婊子谆沃？告訴我她花名叫啥钝凶，搞不好老子干過(guò)她幾回嘞⊙溆埃”他咧嘴笑道耕陷。
Jon twisted like an eel and slammed a heel
down across the instep of the boy holding him. There was a sudden cry of pain,
and he was free. He flew at Toad, knocked him backward over a bench, and landed
on his chest with both hands on his throat, slamming his head against the
packed earth.
瓊恩像條鰻魚(yú)般地用力一扭，后腳跟朝抓住他的男孩胯下狠狠踢去据沈。身后傳來(lái)一聲慘叫哟沫，然后他便掙脫了。他朝癩哈蟆撲過(guò)去锌介，一拳把他打得翻過(guò)長(zhǎng)板凳嗜诀，他窮追不舍猾警，跳上對(duì)方胸膛，兩手掐緊脖子隆敢，使勁往地面撞发皿。
The two from the Fingers pulled him off,
throwing him roughly to the ground. Grenn began to kick at him. Jon was rolling
away from the blows when a booming voice cut through the gloom of the armory.
“STOP THIS! NOW!”
兩個(gè)五指半島來(lái)的家伙拉開(kāi)他，粗暴地把他摔倒在地拂蝎，葛蘭開(kāi)始踢他雳窟。瓊恩正要滾離他們的拳打腳踢，只聽(tīng)一個(gè)宏鐘般的聲音劃過(guò)兵器庫(kù)的陰霾：“通通給我住手匣屡！馬上停手！”
Jon pulled himself to his feet. Donal Noye
stood glowering at them. “The yard is for fighting,” the armorer said. “Keep
your quarrels out of my armory, or I’ll make them my quarrels. You won’t like
that.”
瓊恩爬起來(lái)拇涤，唐納·諾伊怒視著他們捣作，“要打架到場(chǎng)子里去打，”武器師傅說(shuō)鹅士，“別把你們的恩怨帶進(jìn)我的兵器庫(kù)券躁，否則別怪我插手。相信我掉盅，你們不會(huì)喜歡的也拜。”
Toad sat on the floor, gingerly feeling the
back of his head. His fingers came away bloody. “He tried to kill me.”
癩哈蟆坐在地上趾痘，小心翼翼摸摸后腦勺慢哈，只見(jiàn)手指上全是血∮榔保“他想殺我卵贱。”
“ ’S true. I saw
it,” one of the rapers put in.
“是真的侣集，俺親眼看到的键俱。”其中一名強(qiáng)奸犯說(shuō)世分。
“He broke my
wrist,” Grenn said again, holding it out to Noye for inspection.
“他把我的手給打斷了编振。”葛蘭邊說(shuō)邊舉起手給諾伊看臭埋。
The armorer gave the offered wrist the
briefest of glances. “A bruise. Perhaps a sprain. Maester Aemon will give you a
salve. Go with him, Todder, that head wants looking after. The rest of you,
return to your cells. Not you, Snow. You stay.”
武器師傅瞟了他手腕一眼踪央，“我看只是擦傷，頂多扭到斋泄，伊蒙師傅那里有的是好膏藥杯瞻。陶德，你跟他一塊去炫掐，頭上的傷注意一下魁莉。其他人回營(yíng)去。雪諾留下∑煅洌”
Jon sat heavily on the long wooden bench as
the others left, oblivious to the looks they gave him, the silent promises of
future retribution. His arm was throbbing.
瓊恩重重地坐回長(zhǎng)板凳畦浓，不理睬其他人離去時(shí)的眼神，那眼神仿佛在向他保證事情沒(méi)這么容易解決检疫。他的手一陣抽痛讶请。
“The Watch has
need of every man it can get,” Donal Noye said when they were alone. “Even men
like Toad. You won’t win any honors killing him.”
“守夜人需要每一份力量，”待他人都離開(kāi)后屎媳，唐納·諾伊道夺溢，“甚至像是癩哈蟆這種人。殺了他烛谊，你也沒(méi)什么光榮可言风响。”
Jon’s anger flared. “He said my mother
was...”
瓊恩怒火中燒丹禀∽辞冢“他說(shuō)我媽是——”
“...a whore. I
heard him. What of it?”
“——是個(gè)婊子。我聽(tīng)到了双泪。那又如何持搜？”
“Lord Eddard Stark
was not a man to sleep with whores,” Jon said icily. “His honor...”
“艾德·史塔克公爵才不是會(huì)去逛窯子的人，”瓊恩冷冷地說(shuō)焙矛，“他的榮譽(yù)——”
“...did not
prevent him from fathering a bastard. Did it?”
“——免不了他在外面生出個(gè)私生子葫盼，不是么？”
Jon was cold with rage. “Can I go?”
瓊恩氣得渾身發(fā)冷村斟〖舴担“我可以走了嗎？”
“You go when I
tell you to go.”
“我說(shuō)可以你才可以邓梅⊥衙ぃ”
Jon stared sullenly at the smoke rising
from the brazier, until Noye took him under the chin, thick fingers twisting
his head around. “Look at me when I’m talking to you, boy.”
瓊恩恨恨地盯著火盆升起的白煙，直到諾伊伸出粗壯的手托住他下巴日缨，把他的頭粗暴地扭過(guò)來(lái)钱反。“小子匣距，我跟你說(shuō)話的時(shí)候看著我面哥。”
Jon looked. The armorer had a chest like a
keg of ale and a gut to match. His nose was flat and broad, and he always
seemed in need of a shave. The left sleeve of his black wool tunic was fastened
at the shoulder with a silver pin in the shape of a longsword. “Words won’t
make your mother a whore. She was what she was, and nothing Toad says can
change that. You know, we have men on the Wall whose mothers were whores.”
于是瓊恩看著他毅待。武器師傅的胸膛寬闊得像個(gè)酒桶尚卫，肚子更是大得驚人。他的鼻子又寬又扁尸红，那一臉胡子好似從來(lái)沒(méi)刮吱涉。他的黑羊毛外衣左襟用一個(gè)長(zhǎng)劍形狀的別針系在肩頭刹泄。“光嘴巴上說(shuō)說(shuō)怎爵，你媽也不會(huì)變成婊子特石。她是什么樣的人，就是什么樣的人鳖链，和癩哈蟆怎么說(shuō)有何干系姆蘸。話說(shuō)回來(lái)，咱們部隊(duì)里還真有些人的娘是婊子芙委〕逊螅”
Not my mother, Jon thought stubbornly. He
knew nothing of his mother; Eddard Stark would not talk of her. Yet he dreamed
of her at times, so often that he could almost see her face. In his dreams, she
was beautiful, and highborn, and her eyes were kind.
我媽可不是，瓊恩倔強(qiáng)地暗想灌侣。他對(duì)自己的母親一無(wú)所知兰粉，艾德·史塔克絕口不提關(guān)于她的事情。但他經(jīng)常夢(mèng)見(jiàn)她顶瞳，次數(shù)頻繁到他幾乎可以拼湊出她的容貌。夢(mèng)中的她出身高貴愕秫，美麗動(dòng)人慨菱，眼神慈藹。
“You think you had
it hard, being a high lord’s bastard?” the armorer went on. “That boy Jeren is
a septon’s get, and Cotter Pyke is the baseborn son of a tavern wench. Now he
commands Eastwatch by the Sea.”
“你以為自己是大貴族的私生子戴甩，就覺(jué)得特別難受符喝？”武器師傅繼續(xù)下去，“告訴你甜孤，杰倫那家伙是個(gè)六根不凈的教士的野種协饲。卡特·派克是個(gè)酒館女侍的兒子缴川，結(jié)果現(xiàn)在人家是東海望守備隊(duì)長(zhǎng)茉稠。”
“I don’t care,”
Jon said. “I don’t care about them and I don’t care about you or Thorne or
Benjen Stark or any of it. I hate it here. It’s too?.?.?.? it’s cold.”
“我不在乎把夸，”瓊恩道而线，“我才不管他們?cè)鯓樱乙膊还苣慊蛩鞫骰虬鄵P(yáng)·史塔克或是誰(shuí)誰(shuí)誰(shuí)怎么樣恋日。我恨死這地方了膀篮。這里……這里好冷∑裆牛”
“Yes. Cold and
hard and mean, that’s the Wall, and the men who walk it. Not like the stories
your wet nurse told you. Well, piss on the stories and piss on your wet nurse.
This is the way it is, and you’re here for life, same as the rest of us.”
“是啊誓竿，又冷又苦又險(xiǎn)惡，這就是長(zhǎng)城的景況谈截，也是這里守軍的寫(xiě)照筷屡。絕不像你奶媽所說(shuō)的睡前故事涧偷。哼，去他的睡前故事速蕊，去你的奶媽罷嫂丙，事情就是這樣子，而你一輩子都跟我們其他人一起规哲，注定要待在這兒了跟啤。”
“Life,” Jon
repeated bitterly. The armorer could talk about life. He’d had one. He’d only
taken the black after he’d lost an arm at the siege of Storm’s End. Before that
he’d smithed for Stannis Baratheon, the king’s brother. He’d seen the Seven
Kingdoms from one end to the other; he’d feasted and wenched and fought in a
hundred battles. They said it was Donal Noye who’d forged King Robert’s
warhammer, the one that crushed the life from Rhaegar Targaryen on the Trident.
He’d done all the things that Jon would never do, and then when he was old, well
past thirty, he’d taken a glancing blow from an axe and the wound had festered
until the whole arm had to come off. Only then, crippled, had Donal Noye come
to the Wall, when his life was all but over.
“一輩子唉锌∮绶剩”瓊恩苦澀地重復(fù)。武器師傅可以拿一輩子來(lái)大做文章袄简，因?yàn)樗?jiàn)過(guò)世面腥放，經(jīng)歷過(guò)大風(fēng)大浪。他是在風(fēng)息堡之圍中失去了一條胳膊后才加入黑衫軍的绿语，在那之前他是國(guó)王的大弟史坦尼斯·拜拉席恩的鐵匠秃症。他足跡遍布七國(guó)，吃過(guò)山珍海味吕粹，嘗過(guò)女人的甜美种柑，打過(guò)不知幾百場(chǎng)大小戰(zhàn)役。據(jù)說(shuō)勞勃國(guó)王在三叉戟河上殺死雷加·坦格利安那把戰(zhàn)錘匹耕，正是唐納·諾伊所鑄造聚请。他已經(jīng)做過(guò)瓊恩永遠(yuǎn)也不可能做到的事，等到年過(guò)三十稳其，卻因一記輕微的斧傷發(fā)炎潰爛驶赏，最后不得不截掉整只手。也就是在他成了殘廢既鞠，這輩子的幸運(yùn)已經(jīng)結(jié)束的時(shí)候煤傍，唐納·諾伊才來(lái)到長(zhǎng)城。
“Yes, life,” Noye
said. “A long life or a short one, it’s up to you, Snow. The road you’re
walking, one of your brothers will slit your throat for you one night.”
“是啊嘱蛋，雪諾患久，一輩子』氩郏”諾伊道蒋失，“或長(zhǎng)或短，操之你手桐玻。照你現(xiàn)在這種態(tài)度篙挽，早晚會(huì)有弟兄半夜割了你喉嚨∧餮ィ”
“They’re not my
brothers,” Jon snapped. “They hate me because I’m better than they are.”
“他們才不是我弟兄铣卡，”瓊恩駁斥链韭，“他們恨我，因?yàn)槲冶人麄儍?yōu)秀煮落〕ㄇ停”
“No. They hate you
because you act like you’re better than they are. They look at you and see a
castle-bred bastard who thinks he’s a lordling.” The armorer leaned close.
“You’re no lordling. Remember that. You’re a Snow, not a Stark. You’re a
bastard and a bully.”
“錯(cuò)了，他們恨的是你高高在上的優(yōu)越感蝉仇。他們眼中的你旋讹，是個(gè)城里來(lái)的、自以為是小少爺?shù)碾s種轿衔〕良＃”武器匠靠近來(lái)，“記住害驹，你不是什么大人少爺鞭呕，你姓的是雪諾，不是史塔克宛官。而現(xiàn)在葫松，你不但是私生子，還是個(gè)惡霸底洗∫该矗”
“A bully?” Jon
almost choked on the word. The accusation was so unjust it took his breath
away. “They were the ones who came after me. Four of them.”
“惡霸？”瓊恩差點(diǎn)說(shuō)不出話枷恕。這指控實(shí)在太不公平，氣得他喘不過(guò)氣來(lái)谭胚⌒炜椋“是他們四個(gè)先來(lái)找我麻煩≡侄”
“Four that you’ve
humiliated in the yard. Four who are probably afraid of you. I’ve watched you
fight. It’s not training with you. Put a good edge on your sword, and they’d be
dead meat; you know it, I know it, they know it. You leave them nothing. You
shame them. Does that make you proud?”
“他們四個(gè)人在場(chǎng)子里都被你羞辱過(guò)胡控，說(shuō)不定怕你怕得要死。我看過(guò)你練劍旁趟，跟你比劃那不叫練習(xí)昼激，要是你使的真劍，他們已經(jīng)死上好幾回了锡搜。你很清楚橙困，我很清楚，他們也很清楚耕餐。你完全不留情面地羞辱他們凡傅，難道你覺(jué)得這樣很值得驕傲？”
Jon hesitated. He did feel proud when he
won. Why shouldn’t he? But the armorer was taking that away too, making it
sound as if he were doing something wrong. “They’re all older than me,” he said
defensively.
瓊恩遲疑了肠缔。他打贏的時(shí)候的確頗感驕傲夏跷，難道他不應(yīng)該么哼转？武器師傅連這么一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)喜悅也要?jiǎng)儕Z，還讓他覺(jué)得自己好像做錯(cuò)了什么槽华∫悸“他們年紀(jì)都比我大∶ㄌ”他防衛(wèi)性地說(shuō)佣蓉。
“Older and bigger
and stronger, that’s the truth. I’ll wager your master-at-arms taught you how
to fight bigger men at Winterfell, though. Who was he, some old knight?”
“他們是比你年長(zhǎng)，也比你高壯懂鸵。不過(guò)我敢打賭臨冬城的教頭一定教過(guò)你如何對(duì)付比自己高大的人偏螺。他是誰(shuí)，某位老騎士匆光？”
“Ser Rodrik
Cassel,” Jon said warily. There was a trap here. He felt it closing around him.
“是羅德利克·凱索爵士套像。”瓊恩小心答道终息。他覺(jué)得對(duì)方話中有話夺巩。
Donal Noye leaned forward, into Jon’s face.
“Now think on this, boy. None of these others have ever had a master-at-arms
until Ser Alliser. Their fathers were farmers and wagonmen and poachers, smiths
and miners and oars on a trading galley. What they know of fighting they
learned between decks, in the alleys of Oldtown and Lannisport, in wayside
brothels and taverns on the kingsroad. They may have clacked a few sticks
together before they came here, but I promise you, not one in twenty was ever
rich enough to own a real sword.” His look was grim. “So how do you like the
taste of your victories now, Lord Snow?”
唐納·諾伊向前靠，幾乎要貼上瓊恩的臉周崭ד小子，你想想罷续镇，這兒的人在遇上艾里沙爵士以前沒(méi)一個(gè)受過(guò)正式訓(xùn)練美澳。他們的父親是農(nóng)民、車(chē)夫還有盜獵者摸航，是鐵匠制跟、礦工或船上的槳手。他們的打架技巧是從甲板上酱虎、舊鎮(zhèn)和蘭尼斯港的暗巷里雨膨，或從國(guó)王大道路邊的妓院、酒館中學(xué)來(lái)的读串。他們或許相互耍耍棍子聊记，但我跟你保證，里面沒(méi)幾個(gè)買(mǎi)得起真劍恢暖∨偶啵”他一臉冷酷的表情，“所以雪諾大人杰捂，你倒是告訴我社露，打贏這些人真的很爽么？”
“Don’t call me
that!” Jon said sharply, but the force had gone out of his anger. Suddenly he
felt ashamed and guilty. “I never?.?.?.? I didn’t think?.?.?.?”
“不要這樣叫我琼娘！”瓊恩激動(dòng)地說(shuō)峭弟。但他的怒意已沒(méi)了力氣附鸽，突然間只覺(jué)得慚愧和罪惡÷魅常“我不知道……我以為……”
“Best you start
thinking,” Noye warned him. “That, or sleep with a dagger by your bed. Now go.”
“好好想一想坷备，”諾伊提醒他∏槌簦“不然就準(zhǔn)備枕著匕首睡覺(jué)省撑。行了，你回去吧俯在【癸”
By the time Jon left the armory, it was
almost midday. The sun had broken through the clouds. He turned his back on it
and lifted his eyes to the Wall, blazing blue and crystalline in the sunlight.
Even after all these weeks, the sight of it still gave him the shivers.
Centuries of windblown dirt had pocked and scoured it, covering it like a film,
and it often seemed a pale grey, the color of an overcast sky?.?.?.?but when
the sun caught it fair on a bright day, it shone, alive with light, a colossal
blue-white cliff that filled up half the sky.
瓊恩離開(kāi)武器庫(kù)時(shí)，已近中午跷乐。太陽(yáng)撥開(kāi)云層肥败，露出臉來(lái)。他轉(zhuǎn)身背向陽(yáng)光愕提，將視線抬至長(zhǎng)城馒稍，看著城墻在陽(yáng)光下閃著晶瑩的藍(lán)光。雖然已經(jīng)在此生活了好幾個(gè)星期浅侨，可每當(dāng)他目光觸及這番景象纽谒，依舊不禁渾身顫抖。無(wú)數(shù)世代的風(fēng)沙污泥如输，早在城墻留下印痕鼓黔，宛如一層覆蓋的膜，以至于城墻有時(shí)成了淺灰不见，猶如陰霾天際……但當(dāng)晴日里天光直射澳化，長(zhǎng)城又仿佛有生命般閃閃發(fā)亮，如同一道橫斷半天的藍(lán)白絕壁脖祈。
The largest structure ever built by the
hands of man, Benjen Stark had told Jon on the kingsroad when they had first
caught sight of the Wall in the distance. “And beyond a doubt the most
useless,” Tyrion Lannister had added with a grin, but even the Imp grew silent
as they rode closer. You could see it from miles off, a pale blue line across
the northern horizon, stretching away to the east and west and vanishing in the
far distance, immense and unbroken. This is the end of the world, it seemed to
say.
當(dāng)初他們?cè)趪?guó)王大道上遙遙望見(jiàn)長(zhǎng)城時(shí)肆捕，班揚(yáng)·史塔克告訴瓊恩這是人類(lèi)所造最龐大的建筑物刷晋「歉撸“毫無(wú)疑問(wèn)也是最沒(méi)用的⊙凼”聽(tīng)完后喻奥，提利昂·蘭尼斯特嘻笑著加上一句。然而隨著距離漸漸拉近捏悬，連小惡魔也沉默下來(lái)撞蚕。幾里之外便可清楚地看到這條橫亙北方地平線的灰藍(lán)直線，毫不間斷地向東西兩邊延展过牙，直到消失于遠(yuǎn)方甥厦，好像在宣告：這里便是世界盡頭纺铭。
When they finally spied Castle Black, its
timbered keeps and stone towers looked like nothing more than a handful of toy
blocks scattered on the snow, beneath the vast wall of ice. The ancient
stronghold of the black brothers was no Winterfell, no true castle at all.
Lacking walls, it could not be defended, not from the south, or east, or west;
but it was only the north that concerned the Night’s Watch, and to the north
loomed the Wall. Almost seven hundred feet high it stood, three times the
height of the tallest tower in the stronghold it sheltered. His uncle said the
top was wide enough for a dozen armored knights to ride abreast. The gaunt
outlines of huge catapults and monstrous wooden cranes stood sentry up there,
like the skeletons of great birds, and among them walked men in black as small
as ants.
待他們終于見(jiàn)到黑城堡，卻發(fā)現(xiàn)那不過(guò)是這面廣大冰墻下的木造城樓和石砌高塔刀疙，看起來(lái)簡(jiǎn)直就像散布雪地的玩具積木舶赔。黑衫軍的古老堡壘遠(yuǎn)不如臨冬城，甚至稱不上是座像樣的城堡谦秧。它沒(méi)有城墻竟纳，無(wú)法抵御來(lái)自東西南三方面的攻擊，守夜人部隊(duì)惟一關(guān)心的只有北方疚鲤，而高聳在黑堡北邊的正是絕境長(zhǎng)城锥累。長(zhǎng)城高近七百尺，足足是它所庇護(hù)的要塞上最高的塔樓的三倍。叔叔說(shuō)城墻之寬放航，足以讓十二名全副武裝的騎士并肩共騎麻敌。巨大的弩炮和怪獸般的投石機(jī)守衛(wèi)著城墻，行走其上的黑衣軍渺小如同螻蟻删性。
As he stood outside the armory looking up,
Jon felt almost as overwhelmed as he had that day on the kingsroad, when he’d
seen it for the first time. The Wall was like that. Sometimes he could almost
forget that it was there, the way you forgot about the sky or the earth
underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing
else in the world. It was older than the Seven Kingdoms, and when he stood
beneath it and looked up, it made Jon dizzy. He could feel the great weight of
all that ice pressing down on him, as if it were about to topple, and somehow
Jon knew that if it fell, the world fell with it.
如今站在兵器庫(kù)外向上看去，瓊恩感受的震懾絲毫不亞于當(dāng)日在國(guó)王大道上初見(jiàn)之時(shí)焕窝。絕境長(zhǎng)城就是如此蹬挺，有時(shí)你會(huì)忘記其存在，一如你對(duì)頭頂長(zhǎng)空和腳下大地司空見(jiàn)慣它掂，不以為意巴帮，但有時(shí)又仿佛是舉世間惟一真切的存在。它比七大王國(guó)還要古老虐秋，每當(dāng)瓊恩站在城墻下抬頭仰望榕茧，總是頭暈?zāi)垦！Ｋ梢愿杏X(jué)到雄渾繁厚的冰層向他重壓而來(lái)客给，仿佛城墻崩塌要將他掩埋用押。瓊恩隱約知道，倘若哪天長(zhǎng)城真的陷落靶剑，整個(gè)世界必將隨之瓦解蜻拨。
“Makes you wonder
what lies beyond,” a familiar voice said.
“墻外是什么，真叫人猜不透桩引，對(duì)吧缎讼？”一個(gè)熟悉的聲音道。
Jon looked around. “Lannister. I didn’t
see, I mean, I thought I was alone.”
瓊恩轉(zhuǎn)過(guò)頭坑匠⊙福“蘭尼斯特。我沒(méi)看到——我的意思是說(shuō)，我以為這兒只有我一個(gè)人夹纫⊙蚀桑”
Tyrion Lannister was bundled in furs so
thickly he looked like a very small bear. “There’s much to be said for taking
people unawares. You never know what you might learn.”
提利昂·蘭尼斯特全身裹滿毛皮，活像只小熊舰讹〕老辏“乘人不備好處多多，你永遠(yuǎn)也不知道會(huì)學(xué)到些什么跺涤⌒僬觯”
“You won’t learn
anything from me,” Jon told him. He had seen little of the dwarf since their
journey ended. As the queen’s own brother, Tyrion Lannister had been an honored
guest of the Night’s Watch. The Lord Commander had given him rooms in the
King’s Tower, so-called, though no king had visited it for a hundred years, and
Lannister dined at Mormont’s own table and spent his days riding the Wall and
his nights dicing and drinking with Ser Alliser and Bowen Marsh and the other
high officers.
“從我這兒你能學(xué)到什么？”瓊恩告訴他桶错。自他們的旅途結(jié)束之后航唆，他便很少看到這侏儒。提利昂·蘭尼斯特既是王后的弟弟院刁，自然受到貴客般的款待糯钙。莫爾蒙總司令讓他住在國(guó)王塔——說(shuō)得好聽(tīng)，其實(shí)已有一百年沒(méi)國(guó)王住過(guò)了——和他同桌用餐退腥。蘭尼斯特白天在長(zhǎng)城上騎馬任岸，晚上則與艾里沙爵士、波文·馬爾錫和其他高階官員飲酒賭博狡刘。
“Oh, I learn
things everywhere I go.” The little man gestured up at the Wall with a gnarled
black walking stick. “As I was saying?.?.?.?why is it that when one man builds
a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what’s on the other side?” He
cocked his head and looked at Jon with his curious mismatched eyes. “You do
want to know what’s on the other side, don’t you?”
“唉享潜，我走到哪兒學(xué)到哪兒⌒崾撸”這矮子用一根粗糙的黑拐杖指著長(zhǎng)城剑按，“我常說(shuō)……怎么前人千辛萬(wàn)苦才把城墻蓋好，后人立刻便想知道墻的另一面有什么澜术？”他歪著頭艺蝴，用那雙大小不一的古怪眼睛看著瓊恩∧穹希“你也不例外猜敢，對(duì)不？”
“It’s nothing
special,” Jon said. He wanted to ride with Benjen Stark on his rangings, deep
into the mysteries of the haunted forest, wanted to fight Mance Rayder’s
wildlings and ward the realm against the Others, but it was better not to speak
of the things you wanted. “The rangers say it’s just woods and mountains and
frozen lakes, with lots of snow and ice.”
“我看沒(méi)什么特別盒延∷趵蓿”瓊恩道。他好想跟隨班揚(yáng)·史塔克一同出外巡獵撇叁，深入鬼影森林趋厉，好想與曼斯·雷德的野人交鋒沈善，守護(hù)王國(guó)免于異鬼侵襲，但自己心里想要什么，還是別說(shuō)出來(lái)的好严沥±痴遥“游騎兵說(shuō)墻外不過(guò)就是樹(shù)林、山脈和結(jié)凍的湖泊桦卒，一片冰天雪地碌更【⑼龋”
“And the grumkins
and the snarks,” Tyrion said. “Let us not forget them, Lord Snow, or else
what’s that big thing for?”
“還有害人的古靈精怪吶，”提利昂說(shuō)，“可別忘了嗦锐，雪諾大人。否則大伙兒干嘛這么大動(dòng)干戈？”
“Don’t call me
Lord Snow.”
“不要叫我雪諾大人〈毡＃”
The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. “Would you
rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut you, and you’ll
never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it
your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.” He gestured with his
stick. “Come, walk with me. They’ll be serving some vile stew in the common
hall by now, and I could do with a bowl of something hot.”
侏儒揚(yáng)揚(yáng)眉毛∷埠撸“難道我喜歡被人叫小惡魔？一旦別人發(fā)現(xiàn)綽號(hào)對(duì)你的殺傷力糟港，這綽號(hào)就跟定你啦。既然他們愛(ài)給你起綽號(hào)院仿，你就大大方方地接受秸抚，最好還裝出樂(lè)在其中的樣子，那他們就再也傷不了你了歹垫“溃”他舉起拐杖指指前方∨挪遥“哪吭敢，跟我走走。他們這會(huì)兒應(yīng)該在大廳里弄那難吃的湯了暮芭，我正想喝點(diǎn)熱的鹿驼。”
Jon was hungry too, so he fell in beside
Lannister and slowed his pace to match the dwarf’s awkward, waddling steps. The
wind was rising, and they could hear the old wooden buildings creaking around
them, and in the distance a heavy shutter banging, over and over, forgotten.
Once there was a muffled thump as a blanket of snow slid from a roof and landed
near them.
瓊恩也餓了辕宏，所以他走在蘭尼斯特身邊畜晰，刻意放慢腳步以配合侏儒笨拙而古怪的姿勢(shì)。風(fēng)勢(shì)漸大瑞筐，他們可以聽(tīng)見(jiàn)周?chē)疚莞轮ㄗ黜懴象啊＿h(yuǎn)處，一道被遺忘的厚重窗戶反復(fù)噼砰面哼。一堆雪從屋頂滑下野宜，落在他們身邊，發(fā)出低沉的撞擊魔策。
“I don’t see your
wolf,” Lannister said as they walked.
“沒(méi)見(jiàn)你的狼呢匈子。”蘭尼斯特邊走邊說(shuō)闯袒。
“I chain him up in
the old stables when we’re training. They board all the horses in the east stables
now, so no one bothers him. The rest of the time he stays with me. My sleeping
cell is in Hardin’s Tower.”
“訓(xùn)練的時(shí)候虎敦，我把它拴在舊馬房那邊游岳。他們現(xiàn)在把馬都關(guān)在東邊的馬廄，所以不會(huì)礙著他其徙。其他時(shí)候他都跟著我胚迫，我睡在哈丁塔⊥倌牵”
“That’s the one
with the broken battlement, no? Shattered stone in the yard below, and a lean
to it like our noble king Robert after a long night’s drinking? I thought all
those buildings had been abandoned.”
“就那座連城垛都塌掉的塔访锻，是嗎？那塔下面的廣場(chǎng)都是碎石頭闹获，整個(gè)還歪歪斜斜期犬，跟咱們高貴的勞勃國(guó)王酒醉后一個(gè)德行。我以為那些塔早就廢棄不用了避诽」昊ⅲ”
Jon shrugged. “No one cares where you
sleep. Most of the old keeps are empty, you can pick any cell you want.” Once
Castle Black had housed five thousand fighting men with all their horses and
servants and weapons. Now it was home to a tenth that number, and parts of it
were falling into ruin.
瓊恩聳聳肩道，“反正沒(méi)人管你睡哪兒沙庐。這些古堡幾乎都荒廢了鲤妥，愛(ài)睡哪里隨便你」俺”黑城堡曾經(jīng)擁有多達(dá)五千名全副武裝旭斥、鞍馬齊備、仆從如云的戰(zhàn)士古涧。如今卻只剩十分之一的數(shù)量垂券，建筑也紛紛淪為荒頹廢墟。
Tyrion Lannister’s laughter steamed in the
cold air. “I’ll be sure to tell your father to arrest more stonemasons, before
your tower collapses.”
提利昂·蘭尼斯特的笑在冷空氣里蒸騰羡滑」阶Γ“那我就請(qǐng)你老爸務(wù)必在你那座塔垮塌之前，多抓幾個(gè)石匠過(guò)來(lái)柒昏〉手妫”
Jon could taste the mockery there, but
there was no denying the truth. The Watch had built nineteen great strongholds
along the Wall, but only three were still occupied: Eastwatch on its grey
windswept shore, the Shadow Tower hard by the mountains where the Wall ended,
and Castle Black between them, at the end of the kingsroad. The other keeps,
long deserted, were lonely, haunted places, where cold winds whistled through
black windows and the spirits of the dead manned the parapets.
瓊恩聽(tīng)得出話中的嘲弄意味，卻無(wú)法否認(rèn)那是事實(shí)职祷。守夜人一共沿長(zhǎng)城建了十九座雄偉要塞氏涩，如今只剩三座仍有部隊(duì)駐守：高聳的東海望在強(qiáng)風(fēng)吹拂的灰暗海濱，影子塔堅(jiān)毅地佇立于長(zhǎng)城邊陲的群山之中有梆，黑城堡則位于兩者之間是尖，地處國(guó)王大道盡頭。其他堡壘早已被人遺忘泥耀，現(xiàn)在都成了孤獨(dú)的鬼城饺汹，冷風(fēng)颼颼吹過(guò)黑窗，死者幽靈游蕩其中痰催。
“It’s better that
I’m by myself,” Jon said stubbornly. “The rest of them are scared of Ghost.”
“我一個(gè)人住比較好兜辞，”瓊恩固執(zhí)地說(shuō)迎瞧，“其他人很怕白靈∫莩常”
“Wise boys,”
Lannister said. Then he changed the subject. “The talk is, your uncle is too
long away.”
“他們倒聰明凶硅。”蘭尼斯特說(shuō)扫皱。他隨即轉(zhuǎn)變?cè)掝}足绅，“最近大家都在議論你叔叔，他是不是出去太久了啸罢？”
Jon remembered the wish he’d wished in his
anger, the vision of Benjen Stark dead in the snow, and he looked away quickly.
The dwarf had a way of sensing things, and Jon did not want him to see the
guilt in his eyes. “He said he’d be back by my name day,” he admitted. His name
day had come and gone, unremarked, a fortnight past. “They were looking for Ser
Waymar Royce, his father is bannerman to Lord Arryn. Uncle Benjen said they
might search as far as the Shadow Tower. That’s all the way up in the
mountains.”
瓊恩憶起自己失望之下的幻想编检，那幅班揚(yáng)·史塔克倒臥雪地的景象胎食，立刻撇過(guò)頭去扰才。侏儒很擅察言觀色，他可不想讓他瞧見(jiàn)自己眼中的罪惡厕怜●孟唬“他說(shuō)會(huì)趕在我命名日前回來(lái)≈嗪剑”他坦承琅捏。他的命名日早在兩周前便已悄無(wú)聲息地來(lái)了又去〉萑福“他們是去找威瑪·羅伊斯爵士柄延，此人的父親是艾林公爵的封臣。班揚(yáng)叔叔說(shuō)他們會(huì)一直搜索到影子塔缀程，一路深入群山搜吧。”
“I hear that a
good many rangers have vanished of late,” Lannister said as they mounted the
steps to the common hall. He grinned and pulled open the door. “Perhaps the
grumkins are hungry this year.”
“聽(tīng)說(shuō)近來(lái)有不少游騎兵好手失蹤杨凑÷四危”他們一邊登上大廳的階梯，蘭尼斯特一邊說(shuō)撩满，他嘻嘻笑著打開(kāi)門(mén)蜒程。“也許古靈精怪今年特別餓罷伺帘≌烟桑”
Inside, the hall was immense and drafty,
even with a fire roaring in its great hearth. Crows nested in the timbers of
its lofty ceiling. Jon heard their cries overhead as he accepted a bowl of stew
and a heel of black bread from the day’s cooks. Grenn and Toad and some of the
others were seated at the bench nearest the warmth, laughing and cursing each
other in rough voices. Jon eyed them thoughtfully for a moment. Then he chose a
spot at the far end of the hall, well away from the other diners.
進(jìn)入廳堂，雖然爐火熊熊伪嫁，仍舊感覺(jué)地方寬敞窍仰，寒氣逼人。烏鴉棲息于高敞的木天花板上礼殊，在眾人頭頂嘎嘎叫著驹吮。瓊恩從廚子手中接過(guò)一碗肉湯和大塊黑面包针史。葛蘭、癩哈蟆和其他幾人坐在最靠近火爐的長(zhǎng)凳上碟狞，彼此粗聲笑鬧咒罵啄枕。瓊恩若有所思地看了他們一會(huì)，然后在大廳的角落挑了個(gè)位子坐下族沃，遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)離開(kāi)其他人频祝。
Tyrion Lannister sat across from him,
sniffing at the stew suspiciously. “Barley, onion, carrot,” he muttered.
“Someone should tell the cooks that turnip isn’t a meat.”
提利昂·蘭尼斯特坐在他對(duì)面，一臉狐疑地嗅著濃湯脆淹〕？眨“大麥、洋蔥盖溺、胡蘿卜漓糙，”他喃喃念道，“這些煮飯的到底知不知道蕪箐不能當(dāng)肉昂嬷觥昆禽？”
“It’s mutton
stew.” Jon pulled off his gloves and warmed his hands in the steam rising from
the bowl. The smell made his mouth water.
“這是羊肉濃湯耶∮ィ”瓊恩脫下手套醉鳖，探手到湯碗溢出的熱氣里取暖。聞到肉香他口水都流了下來(lái)哮内。
“Snow.”
“雪諾盗棵。”
Jon knew Alliser Thorne’s voice, but there
was a curious note in it that he had not heard before. He turned.
瓊恩認(rèn)得艾里沙·索恩的聲音北发，但這回話中卻有種他從前沒(méi)聽(tīng)過(guò)的語(yǔ)氣纹因，他轉(zhuǎn)過(guò)頭。
“The Lord
Commander wants to see you. Now.”
“司令大人要見(jiàn)你■昃海現(xiàn)在就去辐怕。”
For a moment Jon was too frightened to
move. Why would the Lord Commander want to see him? They had heard something
about Benjen, he thought wildly, he was dead, the vision had come true. “Is it
my uncle?” he blurted. “Is he returned safe?”
一時(shí)之間瓊恩嚇得不敢動(dòng)彈从绘。為什么總司令要見(jiàn)他寄疏？難道他們有了班揚(yáng)的消息，他胡亂揣測(cè)僵井，一定是他死了陕截，他的想像果然成真∨玻“是我叔叔的事嗎农曲？”他沖口而問(wèn)，“他平安回來(lái)了嗎？”
“The Lord
Commander is not accustomed to waiting,” was Ser Alliser’s reply. “And I am not
accustomed to having my commands questioned by bastards.”
“司令大人平素可不習(xí)慣等人乳规⌒卧幔”艾里沙這么回答，“而我更不習(xí)慣下了命令還要聽(tīng)野種問(wèn)東問(wèn)西暮的◇弦裕”
Tyrion Lannister swung off the bench and
rose. “Stop it, Thorne. You’re frightening the boy.”
提利昂·蘭尼斯特霍地跳下長(zhǎng)凳，站起身道：“夠了冻辩，索恩猖腕，你嚇著他了『奚粒”
“Keep out of
matters that don’t concern you, Lannister. You have no place here.”
“蘭尼斯特倘感，你少管閑事，你沒(méi)資格在這兒說(shuō)話咙咽±下辏”
“I have a place at
court, though,” the dwarf said, smiling. “A word in the right ear, and you’ll
die a sour old man before you get another boy to train. Now tell Snow why the
Old Bear needs to see him. Is there news of his uncle?”
“在朝廷里就不一樣嘍±缰椋”侏儒微笑逻炊，“我只消幾句互亮，你下半輩子就準(zhǔn)備當(dāng)個(gè)孤苦老人犁享，別想再訓(xùn)練小毛頭了”荩快告訴雪諾熊老找他干嘛炊昆，到底是不是他叔叔的事？”
“No,” Ser Alliser
said. “This is another matter entirely. A bird arrived this morning from
Winterfell, with a message that concerns his brother.” He corrected himself.
“His half brother.”
“不是威根》锞蓿”艾里沙道，“完全兩碼子事洛搀。今天早上有信鴉從臨冬城飛來(lái)敢茁，帶來(lái)他弟弟的消息×裘溃”他更正道彰檬，“應(yīng)該說(shuō)是他同父異母的弟弟』牙”
“Bran,” Jon
breathed, scrambling to his feet. “Something’s happened to Bran.”
“布蘭逢倍，”瓊恩倒抽一口氣，掙扎著起來(lái)景图〗系瘢“布蘭出事了≈勘遥”
Tyrion Lannister laid a hand on his arm.
“Jon,” he said. “I am truly sorry.”
提利昂·蘭尼斯特伸手?jǐn)R在他臂膀上亮蒋】鄣洌“瓊恩，”他說(shuō)慎玖，“我真的很遺憾激捏。”
Jon scarcely heard him. He brushed off
Tyrion’s hand and strode across the hall. He was running by the time he hit the
doors. He raced to the Commander’s Keep, dashing through drifts of old snow.
When the guards passed him, he took the tower steps two at a time. By the time
he burst into the presence of the Lord Commander, his boots were soaked and Jon
was wild-eyed and panting. “Bran,” he said. “What does it say about Bran?”
瓊恩幾乎沒(méi)聽(tīng)到他的話凄吏。他撥開(kāi)提利昂的手远舅，大跨步穿過(guò)廳堂，到門(mén)邊時(shí)跑了起來(lái)痕钢。他一路沖過(guò)積雪图柏，狂奔至司令官堡壘。守衛(wèi)讓他通過(guò)任连，他三步并作兩步奔上塔頂蚤吹。等沖到總司令官面前，瓊恩已經(jīng)滿身大汗随抠，喘不過(guò)氣來(lái)裁着。“布蘭拱她，”他說(shuō)二驰，“信上說(shuō)布蘭怎樣了？”
Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night’s
Watch, was a gruff old man with an immense bald head and a shaggy grey beard.
He had a raven on his arm, and he was feeding it kernels of corn. “I am told
you can read.” He shook the raven off, and it flapped its wings and flew to the
window, where it sat watching as Mormont drew a roll of paper from his belt and
handed it to Jon. “Corn,” it muttered in a raucous voice. “Corn, corn.”
守夜人軍團(tuán)總司令杰奧·莫爾蒙是個(gè)壞脾氣的老人秉沼，一把灰胡子桶雀，頂著個(gè)大光頭。他正拿玉米粒喂食停在手上的烏鴉唬复〈；“我聽(tīng)說(shuō)你識(shí)字〕ㄟ郑”他把烏鴉揮開(kāi)棘捣，它拍著翅膀飛到窗邊，然后蹲坐下來(lái)看著莫爾蒙從腰際抽出一張卷好的紙交給瓊恩休建≌Э郑“玉米，”它刺耳地叫道丰包，“玉米禁熏，玉米∫乇耄”
Jon’s finger traced the outline of the
direwolf in the white wax of the broken seat. He recognized Robb’s hand, but
the letters seemed to blur and run as he tried to read them. He realized he was
crying. And then, through the tears, he found the sense in the words, and
raised his head. “He woke up,” he said. “The gods gave him back.”
瓊恩的手指在已拆封的白蠟印記上摸索瞧毙，順著冰原狼的輪廓。他認(rèn)出這是羅柏的字跡，但隨著閱讀宙彪，信本身卻模糊旋轉(zhuǎn)起來(lái)矩动，他方才明白自己在哭。透過(guò)淚水释漆，他拼湊出信上的意思悲没，抬起頭∧型迹“他醒了示姿。”他說(shuō)逊笆，“諸神讓他活過(guò)來(lái)了栈戳。”
“Crippled,”
Mormont said. “I’m sorry, boy. Read the rest of the letter.”
“但也殘廢了难裆∽犹矗”莫爾蒙道，“小子乃戈，我很遺憾褂痰。把信讀完罷≈⒙牵”
He looked at the words, but they didn’t
matter. Nothing mattered. Bran was going to live. “My brother is going to
live,” he told Mormont. The Lord Commander shook his head, gathered up a
fistful of corn, and whistled. The raven flew to his shoulder, crying, “Live!
Live!”
他把視線移回信上缩歪，但上面寫(xiě)什么已經(jīng)不重要了。什么都不重要了侦讨。布蘭活了下來(lái)驶冒」斗“我弟弟活下來(lái)了韵卤！”他告訴莫爾蒙〕缑ǎ總司令搖搖頭沈条，拾起一把玉米，吹聲口哨诅炉。烏鴉立即飛上他肩頭蜡歹，叫道：“活了！活了涕烧！”
Jon ran down the stairs, a smile on his
face and Robb’s letter in his hand. “My brother is going to live,” he told the
guards. They exchanged a look. He ran back to the common hall, where he found Tyrion
Lannister just finishing his meal. He grabbed the little man under the arms,
hoisted him up in the air, and spun him around in a circle. “Bran is going to
live!” he whooped. Lannister looked startled. Jon put him down and thrust the
paper into his hands. “Here, read it,” he said.
瓊恩滿臉笑容月而，手中握著羅柏的信奔下樓梯∫榇浚“我弟弟活下來(lái)了父款！”他告訴守衛(wèi)。他們互看一眼。他跑回廳堂憨攒，發(fā)現(xiàn)提利昂·蘭尼斯特剛吃完?yáng)|西世杀。他一把抓住小個(gè)子的腋下，將他抱到半空轉(zhuǎn)圈肝集≌鞍樱“布蘭活下來(lái)了！”他喊杏瞻。蘭尼斯特一臉驚訝的表情所刀。瓊恩放下他，把信塞到他手中捞挥∶愠眨“這里，你自己讀树肃≌裘”
Others were gathering around and looking at
him curiously. Jon noticed Grenn a few feet away. A thick woolen bandage was
wrapped around one hand. He looked anxious and uncomfortable, not menacing at
all. Jon went to him. Grenn edged backward and put up his hands. “Stay away
from me now, you bastard.”
其他人聚集過(guò)來(lái)，好奇地看著他胸嘴。瓊恩看到葛蘭站在幾尺之外雏掠，一只手上綁著厚厚的羊毛繃帶。他看起來(lái)既焦慮又不安劣像，一點(diǎn)都不兇惡乡话。于是瓊恩朝他走去，葛蘭見(jiàn)狀立即后退耳奕，同時(shí)舉手說(shuō)：“小雜種绑青，你離我遠(yuǎn)點(diǎn)∥萑海”
Jon smiled at him. “I’m sorry about your
wrist. Robb used the same move on me once, only with a wooden blade. It hurt
like seven hells, but yours must be worse. Look, if you want, I can show you
how to defend that.”
瓊恩微笑道：“把你手腕弄成這樣闸婴，我很抱歉。以前羅柏也用同樣的招式對(duì)付我芍躏，雖然用的是木劍邪乍，可七層地獄，真他媽的痛对竣。我想你的傷勢(shì)一定更嚴(yán)重庇楞。這樣罷，如果你愿意否纬，改天我來(lái)教你如何克制這招吕晌。”
Alliser Thorne overheard him. “Lord Snow
wants to take my place now.” He sneered. “I’d have an easier time teaching a
wolf to juggle than you will training this aurochs.”
艾里沙·索恩爵士聽(tīng)到了這句話临燃【Σ担“喲壁拉，雪諾大人這下想搶我的位子啦“匕校”他冷笑道弃理，“我看教狼變魔術(shù)都比教這些笨牛容易∈候眩”
“I’ll take that
wager, Ser Alliser,” Jon said. “I’d love to see Ghost juggle.”
“艾里沙爵士痘昌，我就跟你賭【孀”瓊恩說(shuō)辆苔，“我倒是很想看白靈變魔術(shù)《笈”
Jon heard Grenn suck in his breath,
shocked. Silence fell.
瓊恩聽(tīng)見(jiàn)葛蘭嚇得倒抽一口冷氣驻啤。四周一片死寂。
Then Tyrion Lannister guffawed. Three of
the black brothers joined in from a nearby table. The laughter spread up and
down the benches, until even the cooks joined in. The birds stirred in the
rafters, and finally even Grenn began to chuckle.
接著提利昂·蘭尼斯特捧腹大笑起來(lái)荐吵。鄰近餐桌上三名黑衣弟兄也跟著笑骑冗。笑聲快速散播，連廚師們也忍不住加入先煎。梁木上的鳥(niǎo)群被笑聲驚動(dòng)贼涩，最后連葛蘭也咯咯笑了起來(lái)。
Ser Alliser never took his eyes from Jon.
As the laughter rolled around him, his face darkened, and his sword hand curled
into a fist. “That was a
grievous error, Lord Snow,” he said at last in the acid tones of an enemy.只有艾里沙爵士從頭至尾沒(méi)有將視線從瓊恩身上移開(kāi)薯蝎。待笑聲漸止遥倦，他一臉陰沉，右手握拳占锯√桓纾“雪諾大人，你犯了一個(gè)很?chē)?yán)重的錯(cuò)誤消略，”最后堡称，他用對(duì)仇人的口吻說(shuō)。
