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Up and down the rolling hills she took them, through brambles and briars and tangles of underbrush,
带着男孩们在起伏的丘陵中穿梭，越过荆棘、石蓝和纠缠的灌木，
along the bottoms of narrow gullies where branches heavy with wet leaves slapped at their faces as they passed.
深入狭窄山沟的底部，沉重的树枝夹着潮湿的树叶，一次又一次抽打着他们的脸。
Gendry’s mare lost her footing in the mud once, going down hard on her hindquarters and spilling him from the saddle,
忽然，詹德利的母马绊倒在泥潭中，后腿跪倒，将他掀出马鞍，
but neither horse nor rider was hurt, and Gendry got that stubborn look on his face and mounted right up again.
幸而人马都平安无恙。詹德利还是那副固执样，迅速翻身上马，继续前进，什么也没说。
Not long after, they came upon three wolves devouring the corpse of a fawn.
没过多久，他们目睹三匹野狼在吞食一只小鹿的尸体。
When Hot Pie’s horse caught the scent, he shied and bolted.
热派的马闻到血腥味，惊恐地人立起来，随后亡命奔跑。
Two of the wolves fled as well, but the third raised his head and bared his teeth, prepared to defend his kill.
两匹狼见状逃之夭夭，但第三匹抬起头，露出牙齿，准备保卫自己的猎获。
“Back off,” Arya told Gendry.
“往后退，”艾莉亚告诉詹德利，
“Slow, so you don’t spook him.”
“慢慢走，别吓着它。”
They edged their mounts away, until the wolf and his feast were no longer in sight.
他们骑马缓缓绕开此地，直到再看不见野狼和它的美餐，这时她才拍马追赶热派，
Only then did she swing about to ride after Hot Pie, who was clinging desperately to the saddle as he crashed through the trees.
只见男孩绝望地抓着马鞍，他的马在森林里乱撞。
Later they passed through a burned village,
再后来，他们经过一个焚毁的村落，
threading their way carefully between the shells of blackened hovels and past the bones of a dozen dead men hanging from a row of apple trees.
小心翼翼地踏过那些被烧成黑炭的小屋空壳途中，发现一排苹果树上吊死了十来个人，尸体业已腐烂到骨。
When Hot Pie saw them he began to pray, a thin whispered plea for the Mother’s mercy, repeated over and over.
热派为他们祈祷，恳求圣母的慈悲，他轻声低语，一次又一次地重复。
Arya looked up at the fleshless dead in their wet rotting clothes and said her own prayer.
艾莉亚盯着这些披着湿透的褴褛衣杉的无肉躯体，说的是自己的祷词：
Ser Gregor, it went, Dunsen, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling.
克雷果爵士，邓森、波利佛、“甜嘴”拉夫，
The Tickler and the Hound.
记事本和猎狗，
Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei.
伊林爵士，马林爵士，乔佛里国王，瑟曦太后。
She ended it with valar morghulis, touched Jaqen’s coin where it nestled under her belt,
她碰了碰藏在腰带下的贾昆给的硬币，以valarmorghulis结束了名单。
and then reached up and plucked an apple from among the dead men as she rode beneath them.
接着她骑到死人身下，伸手摘下一个苹果。
It was mushy and overripe, but she ate it worms and all.
苹果熟透，烂成了糊，她连着蠕虫一起吞吃。
That was the day without a dawn.
那是没有黎明的一天，
Slowly the sky lightened around them, but they never saw the sun.
天空缓缓放亮，但看不到太阳。
Black turned to grey, and colors crept timidly back into the world.
漆黑变成灰暗，色泽犹犹豫豫地重现人间，
The soldier pines were dressed in somber greens, the broadleafs in russets and faded golds already beginning to brown.
哨兵树呈现出暗绿的色彩，黄褐和淡金色的阔叶几乎成了棕色。
They stopped long enough to water the horses and eat a cold, quick breakfast,
他们停下来喂马喝水，同时吃了一顿冰凉的方便早餐，
ripping apart a loaf of the bread that Hot Pie had stolen from the kitchens and passing chunks of hard yellow cheese from hand to hand.
有热派从厨房偷出来的面包，还有黄色的硬奶酪。
“Do you know where we’re going?”
“你有明确的目标吗？”
Gendry asked her.
詹德利问她。
“North,” said Arya.
“我们去北方，”艾莉亚说。
Hot Pie peered around uncertainly.
热派茫然地四处打量，
“Which way is north?”
“哪条路通向北方？”
She used her cheese to point.
她用奶酪一指，
“That way.”
“那条。”
“But there’s no sun. How do you know?”
“连太阳都没有，你怎么知道走那条？”
“From the moss.
“笨蛋，看苔藓啦，
See how it grows mostly on one side of the trees?
你瞧，在树的一面它们长得特别茂盛，
That’s south.”
那就是南边。”
“What do we want with the north?”
“我们去北方做什么？”
Gendry wanted to know.
詹德利想知道。
“The Trident.”
“北方有条三叉戟河，”
Arya unrolled the stolen map to show them.
艾莉亚展开偷来的地图，
“See? Once we reach the Trident, all we need to do is follow it upstream till we come to Riverrun, here.”
“看到没？一旦我们到达三叉戟河，就可以沿河向上走，直到奔流城。就这样。”
Her finger traced the path.
她用手指描绘路径，
“It’s a long way, but we can’t get lost so long as we keep to the river.”
“路虽长，但跟着河走决不会迷路。”
Hot Pie blinked at the map.
热派对着地图不断眨眼。
“Which one is Riverrun?”
“哪儿是奔流城？”
Riverrun was painted as a castle tower, in the fork between the flowing blue lines of two rivers, the Tumblestone and the Red Fork.
奔流城被标示为一座塔楼，绘制在两条蓝线的交汇处，那想必是腾石河与红叉河。
“There.” She touched it.
“这儿，”她指着地图，
“Riverrun, it reads.”
“奔流城，下面有文字。”
“You can read writing?”
“阿利，你识字呀？”
he said to her, wonderingly, as if she’d said she could walk on water.
他万分惊奇，好像她刚才声称自己能在水上走路。
She nodded.
她点点头。
“We’ll be safe once we reach Riverrun.”
“到了奔流城，我们就安全了。”
“We will? Why?”
“会吗？为啥？”
Because Riverrun is my grandfather’s castle, and my brother Robb will be there, she wanted to say.
因为奔流城是我外公的城堡，而我哥哥罗柏在那里，艾莉亚几乎冲口而出。
She bit her lip and rolled up the map.
但她咬紧嘴唇，叠好地图，
“We just will. But only if we get there.”
“我们只能这样希望。先到了再说吧。”
She was the first one back in the saddle.
说罢，她翻身上马。
It made her feel bad to hide the truth from Hot Pie, but she did not trust him with her secret.
向热派隐瞒真相，她心里挺不舒服，但这是没办法的事，她无法信任他。
Gendry knew, but that was different.
詹德利是知道的，但他情况不同。
Gendry had his own secret, though even he didn’t seem to know what it was.
詹德利有自己的秘密，虽然这秘密究竟是什么，连他自己也很迷惑。
That day Arya quickened their pace, keeping the horses to a trot as long as she dared,
出发之后，艾莉亚让他们加快速度，要马儿以尽可能大的步幅前进。
and sometimes spurring to a gallop when she spied a flat stretch of field before them.
有好几次，当她看到面前出现大块平地时，便用马刺猛地扎马，飞奔起来。
That was seldom enough, though; the ground was growing hillier as they went.
不过，她心知速度仍远远不够。路越来越颠簸，
