DAENERYS
丹妮莉丝
The land was red and dead and parched, andgood wood was hard to come by.
此地遍野红沙，四下死寂，干枯焦裂，木柴难寻。
Her foragers
returned with gnarled cottonwoods, purple brush, sheaves of brown grass. They
took the two straightest trees, hacked the limbs and branches from them,
skinned off their bark, and split them, laying the logs in a square. Its center
they filled with straw, brush, bark shavings, and bundles of dry grass. Rakharo
chose a stallion from the small herd that remained to them; he was not the
equal of Khal Drogo’s red, but few horses were. In the center of the square,
Aggo fed him a withered apple and dropped him in an instant with an axe blow
between the eyes.
她手下的人带回纠结的绵木、紫灌木以及束束褐草。他们还找来两棵生得最直的树，砍下树枝，剥去树皮，然后将之劈开，把所得木柴堆成方形，中间放满稻草、灌木、树皮屑和干草。拉卡洛从剩下的小马群里挑了一头骏马，虽然比不上卓戈卡奥的赤红坐骑，但世间原本就少有与之匹敌的畜生。阿戈把它牵到木柴堆成的方形中间，喂它吃了一颗干瘪的苹果，然后照它面门一斧砍去，利落地把它放倒。
Bound hand and foot, Mirri Maz Duur watchedfrom the dust with disquiet in her black eyes. “It is not enough to kill ahorse,” she told Dany. “By itself, the blood is nothing. You do not have thewords to make a spell, nor the wisdom to find them. Do you think bloodmagic isa game for children? You call me maegi as if it were a curse, but all it meansis wise. You are a child, with a child’s ignorance. Whatever you mean to do, itwill not work. Loose me from these bonds and I will help you.”
弥丽·马兹·笃尔手脚被缚，站在漫漫烟尘中，睁大那双黑眼，不安地看着这一切。“杀马是不够的，”她告诉丹妮，“血液本身没有力量，你既不懂魔咒的语言，更没有寻求这种语言的智慧。你以为血魔法是小孩子玩的把戏？你称呼我为‘巫魔女’，仿佛那是个诅咒，但它真正的意思其实是‘智慧’。你只是个年幼无知的孩子，无论你打算做什么，都注定不会成功。为我松绑，我会帮你。”
“I am tired of the maegi’s braying,” Danytold Jhogo. He took his whip to her, and after that the godswife kept silent.
“我听够了巫魔女的废话。”丹妮对乔戈说。他取出鞭子交给她，在那之后，女祭司沉默了。
Over the carcass of the horse, they built aplatform of hewn logs; trunks of smaller trees and limbs from the greater, andthe thickest straightest branches they could find. They laid the wood east towest, from sunrise to sunset. On the platform they piled Khal Drogo’s treasures:his great tent, his painted vests, his saddles and harness, the whip his fatherhad given him when he came to manhood, the arakh he had used to slay Khal Ogoand his son, a mighty dragonbone bow. Aggo would have added the weapons Drogo’sbloodriders had given Dany for bride gifts as well, but she forbade it. “Thoseare mine,” she told him, “and I mean to keep them.” Another layer of brush waspiled about the khal’s treasures, and bundles of dried grass scattered overthem.
他们拿柴薪在马尸上堆起一座平台，用上了小树的主干、大树的枝桠，以及所有能找到的最粗最直的枝条。他们将木柴从东摆到西，象征日升到日落，然后在平台上放置卓戈卡奥的宝物：他的大帐篷、他的彩绘背心、他的马鞍和缰绳、他成年时父亲所赠的马鞭、他那把曾击杀奥戈卡奥父子的亚拉克弯刀，还有他巨大的龙骨长弓。阿戈原本要把卓戈的血盟卫赠与丹妮作新娘礼的武器也放上去，却被她阻止。“那些是我的东西，”她对他说，“我要留着。”卡奥的宝物上又铺了一层灌木枝条，然后放上几捆干草。
Ser Jorah Mormont drew her aside as the sunwas creeping toward its zenith. “Princess?.?.?.?” he began.
太阳逐渐朝天顶爬去，乔拉·莫尔蒙爵士把她拉到一边。“公主殿下……”他开口。
“Why do you call me that?” Dany challengedhim. “My brother Viserys was your king, was he not?”
“你为何如此称呼我？”丹妮质问他，“我哥哥韦赛里斯从前是你的国王，不是吗？”
“He was, my lady.”
“是的，小姐。”
“Viserys is dead. I am his heir, the lastblood of House Targaryen. Whatever was his is mine now.”
“如今韦赛里斯死了，我就是他的继承人，是坦格利安家族的最后血脉，过去属于他的东西，现在都是我的。”
“My?.?.?.?queen,” Ser Jorah said, going toone knee. “My sword that was his is yours, Dacnerys. And my heart as well, thatnever belonged to your brother. I am only a knight, and I have nothing to offeryou but exile, but I beg you, hear me. Let Khal Drogo go. You shall not bealone. I promise you, no man shall take you to Vaes Dothrak unless you wish togo. You need not join the dosh khaleen. Come east with me. Yi Ti, Qarth, theJade Sea, Asshai by the Shadow. We will see all the wonders yet unseen, anddrink what wines the gods see fit to serve us. Please, Khaleesi. I know whatyou intend. Do not. Do not.”
“是……女王陛下。”乔拉爵士说着单膝跪下。“丹妮莉丝，我的剑是您的，我的心也是您的——而在过去，我这颗心却不曾属于您哥哥。我仅是一介骑士，遭遇放逐，身无长物，但我求求您，听我说。让卓戈卡奥去罢，你绝不会孤身一人。我向你保证，除非你自愿，否则谁都别想带你回维斯·多斯拉克，你无须加入多希卡林。跟我走吧，我们去东方，去夷地、魁尔斯、玉海和阴影之地旁的亚夏，我们将会看到前所未见的奇观，啜饮天上诸神赐予我们的玉露琼浆。我求求您，卡丽熙，我知道您的打算，但请您千万别这么做，千万不要啊。”
“I must,” Dany told him. She touched hisface, fondly, sadly. “You do not understand.”
“我必须这么做，”丹妮一边说，一边伸出手，爱怜而哀伤地轻抚他的脸颊，“你不了解。”
“I understand that you loved him,” Ser Jorahsaid in a voice thick with despair. “I loved my lady wife once, yet I did notdie with her. You are my queen, my sword is yours, but do not ask me to standaside as you climb on Drogo’s pyre. I will not watch you burn.”
“不，我了解您深爱着他，”乔拉爵士的声音里充满绝望。“过去，我也深爱着我的妻子，但我并不曾与她生死相随。您是我的女王，我的剑是您的，但你若要爬上卓戈的火葬台，休想叫我袖手旁观，我绝不能眼睁睁地看着你被火焚烧。”
“Is that what you fear?” Dany kissed himlightly on his broad forehead. “I am not such a child as that, sweet ser.”
“你怕的就是这个？”丹妮轻轻地吻了他宽阔的额头。“好爵士，我没有孩子气到那种地步啊。”
“You do not mean to die with him? You swearit, my queen?”
“你不会陪他殉死？女王陛下，您发誓不会这么做？”
“I swear it,” she said in the Common Tongueof the Seven Kingdoms that by rights were hers.
“我发誓。”她用七大王国——那些照理归她统治的国度——的通用语答道。
The third level of the platform was woven ofbranches no thicker than a finger, and covered with dry leaves and twigs. Theylaid them north to south, from ice to fire, and piled them high with softcushions and sleeping silks. The sun had begun to lower toward the west by thetime they were done. Dany called the Dothraki around her. Fewer than a hundredwere left. How many had Aegon started with? she wondered. It did not matter.
平台的第三层用跟手指一般粗细的树枝搭成，上面铺满干叶和枯枝。他们将枝叶从北摆到南，象征玄冰到烈火，最后把柔软的枕头和丝被堆在最上，积得老高。等到一切备妥，太阳已经渐渐西沉。丹妮将所剩无几、尚不满一百的多斯拉克人召集到身边。当年伊耿扬帆出征时，最初又带了多少人呢？她不禁好奇地想。多少都没有关系。
“You will be my khalasar,” she told them. “Isee the faces of slaves. I free you. Take off your collars. Go if you wish, noone shall harm you. If you stay, it will be as brothers and sisters, husbandsand wives.” The black eyes watched her, wary, expressionless. “I see thechildren, women, the wrinkled faces of the aged. I was a child yesterday. TodayI am a woman. Tomorrow I will be old. To each of you I say, give me your handsand your hearts, and there will always be a place for you.” She turned to thethree young warriors of her khas. “Jhogo, to you I give the silver-handled whipthat was my bride gift, and name you ko, and ask your oath, that you will liveand die as blood of my blood, riding at my side to keep me safe from harm.”
“你们将是我的卡拉萨。”她对他们说，“在你们当中，我看到了奴隶的脸庞，首先，我放你们自由。取下你们的奴隶项圈吧，如果你们要走，没人会加以阻止，但如果你们选择留下，你们将彼此成为兄弟姐妹、男女夫妻。”一双双黑眼睛看着她，充满戒心，面无表情。“在这里，我更看到幼儿、妇女和满是皱纹的老人的脸孔。昨天我尚为幼儿，今夕我已成为女人，明日我便将衰老。我告诉你们中每一个：把你们的双手和你们的心灵交给我，这里永远有你们的一席之地。”她转身面对自己卡斯部众的三名年轻战士。“乔戈，这把银柄长鞭是我的新娘礼，在此我把它送给你，并任命你为寇，同时要求你宣誓成为吾血之血，与我同生共死，并肩作战，保护我免于危难。”
Jhogo took the whip from her hands, but hisface was confused. “Khaleesi, “ he said hesitantly, “this is not done. It wouldshame me, to be bloodrider to a woman.”
乔戈从她手中接过鞭子，脸上却满是困惑。“卡丽熙，”他有些犹豫地说，“这事不成的。当女人的血盟卫，会令我感到羞耻的。”
“Aggo,” Dany called, paying no heed toJhogo’s words. If I look back I am lost. “To you I give the dragonbone bow thatwas my bride gift.” It was double-curved, shiny black and exquisite, tallerthan she was. “I name you ko, and ask your oath, that you should live and dieas blood of my blood, riding at my side to keep me safe from harm.”
“阿戈，”丹妮唤道，不理会乔戈的话。如果我回头，一切就都完了。“这把龙骨长弓是我的新娘礼，在此我把它送给你，”那把双弧龙弓，雕工精细，乌黑发亮，立起来比她还高。“我也任命你为寇，同时要求你宣誓成为吾血之血，与我同生共死，并肩作战，保护我免于危难。”
Aggo accepted the bow with lowered eyes. “Icannot say these words. Only a man can lead a khalasar or name a ko.”
阿戈垂下眼睛，接受了那把弓。“我无法宣誓。只有男人才能领导卡拉萨，或是任命别人为寇。”
“Rakharo,” Dany said, turning away from therefusal, “you shall have the great arakh that was my bride gift, with hilt andblade chased in gold. And you too I name my ko, and ask that you live and dieas blood of my blood, riding at my side to keep me safe from harm.”
“拉卡洛，”丹妮不理会他的拒绝。“这把亚拉克巨弯刀是我的新娘礼，它的刀鞘和刀身都镶上了金线，在此我把它送给你，并任命你为寇，同时要求你成为吾血之血，与我同生共死，并肩作战，保护我免于危难。”
“You are khaleesi,” Rakharo said, taking thearakh. “I shall ride at your side to Vaes Dothrak beneath the Mother ofMountains, and keep you safe from harm until you take your place with thecrones of the dosh khaleen. No more can I promise.”
“您是卡丽熙，”拉卡洛说罢接过亚拉克弯刀。“我将与您并肩骑到圣母山下的维斯·多斯拉克，保护您免于危难，直到您加入多希卡林的老妪。除此之外，我无法作任何承诺。”
She nodded, as calmly as if she had notheard his answer, and turned to the last of her champions. “Ser Jorah Mormont,”she said, “first and greatest of my knights, I have no bride gift to give you,but I swear to you, one day you shall have from my hands a longsword like nonethe world has ever seen, dragon-forged and made of Valyrian steel. And I wouldask for your oath as well.”
她冷静地点点头，仿佛压根儿没听见他的回答，然后她转身面对她的最后一名武士。“乔拉·莫尔蒙爵士，”她说，“你是追随我的第一个、也是最忠勇的骑士，我虽无新娘礼相赠，但我向你发誓，有朝一日，你将会从我手中得到一把举世无双的长剑，它将由真龙打造，以瓦雷利亚钢铸成。我也要求你宣誓效忠。”
“You have it, my queen,” Ser Jorah said,kneeling to lay his sword at her feet. “I vow to serve you, to obey you, to diefor you if need be.”
“女王陛下，我的命是您的，”乔拉骑士说着单膝跪下，将佩剑放在她脚边。“我宣誓为您效力，奉行您一切旨意，牺牲性命，再所不辞。”
“Whatever may come?”
“至死不渝？”
“Whatever may come.”
“至死不渝。”
“I shall hold you to that oath. I pray younever regret the giving of it.” Dany lifted him to his feet. Stretching on hertoes to reach his lips, she kissed the knight gently and said, “You are thefirst of my Queensguard.”
“我将谨记你的誓言，希望你永不后悔。”丹妮扶他起身，然后垫起脚尖，轻柔地在骑士唇上印下一吻。“你是我第一个女王铁卫。”
She could feel the eyes of the khalasar onher as she entered her tent. The Dothraki were muttering and giving her strangesideways looks from the corners of their dark almond eyes. They thought hermad, Dany realized. Perhaps she was. She would know soon enough. If I look backI am lost.
她进帐时，感觉整个卡拉萨都在注目她。多斯拉克人窃窃私语，睁着杏仁形的黑眼睛，用眼角余光怪异地打量她。他们一定以为我疯了，丹妮明白，或许我真疯了，究竟是不是这样，很快就能揭晓。如果我回头，一切就都完了。
Her bath was scalding hot when Irri helpedher into the tub, but Dany did not flinch or cry aloud. She liked the heat. Itmade her feel clean. Jhiqui had scented the water with the oils she had foundin the market in Vaes Dothrak; the steam rose moist and fragrant. Doreah washedher hair and combed it out, working loose the mats and tangles. Irri scrubbedher back. Dany closed her eyes and let the smell and the warmth enfold her. Shecould feel the heat soaking through the soreness between her thighs. Sheshuddered when it entered her, and her pain and stiffness seemed to dissolve.She floated.
伊丽搀她进入浴缸，洗澡水烫得吓人，但丹妮既未退缩，也未吭声。她喜欢这种热，让她有干净的感觉。姬琪在水里洒了香油，那是她在维斯·多斯拉克的市集里收的礼物，此刻帐篷里蒸汽四溢，馨香弥漫。多莉亚为她洗净头发，把纠缠打结的地方都梳理柔顺，伊丽则替她刷背。丹妮阖上双眼，任香气和暖意裹住全身。她可以感觉热气渗进双腿间的酸痛，当热气进入体内时，她禁不住颤抖，接着，所有的疼痛和僵硬似乎都随之融化，令她飘飘欲仙。
When she was clean, her handmaids helped herfrom the water. Irri and Jhiqui fanned her dry, while Doreah brushed her hairuntil it fell like a river of liquid silver down her back. They scented herwith spiceflower and cinnamon; a touch on each wrist, behind her ears, on thetips of her milk-heavy breasts. The last dab was for her sex. Irri’s fingerfelt as light and cool as a lover’s kiss as it slid softly up between her lips.
沐浴干净后，女仆扶她走出浴缸。伊丽和姬琪为她擦干身体，多莉亚则为她梳整头发，将她一头长发梳成银色瀑布，流泻到后背。她们为她抹上辛香花和肉桂：双腕、耳后、肿胀的乳头各轻触一点，最后抹在下体。伊丽的手指轻轻滑过细部，冰凉而温柔，有如爱人的吻。
Afterward, Dany sent them all away, so shemight prepare Khal Drogo for his final ride into the night lands. She washedhis body clean and brushed and oiled his hair, running her fingers through itfor the last time, feeling the weight of it, remembering the first time she hadtouched it, the night of their wedding ride. His hair had never been cut. Howmany men could die with their hair uncut? She buried her face in it and inhaledthe dark fragrance of the oils. He smelled like grass and warm earth, likesmoke and semen and horses. He smelled like Drogo. Forgive me, sun of my life,she thought. Forgive me for all I have done and all I must do. I paid theprice, my star, but it was too high, too high?.?.?.?
在这之后，丹妮把她们都遣走，亲自帮卓戈卡奥准备前往夜晚国度的最后一趟旅程。她洗净他的身体，梳理他的头发，并为之搽上香油。她最后一次伸手滑过他的头发，感觉到它们的重量，想起新婚当晚自己初次碰触的情景。他的头发从未修剪，有多少死者有如此殊荣呢？她把脸深埋其中，吸进发油朦胧的芳香。他闻起来有青草和大地的感觉，有轻烟、精液和骏马的气息，他闻起来有卓戈的味道。我生命中的太阳，请你原谅我，她想，原谅我所做的一切，以及我必须做的一切。我的星星，我付出了代价，可这个代价实在太高、太高了……
Dany braided his hair and slid the silverrings onto his mustache and hung his bells one by one. So many bells, gold andsilver and bronze. Bells so his enemies would hear him coming and grow weakwith fear. She dressed him in horsehair leggings and high boots, buckling abelt heavy with gold and silver medallions about his waist. Over his scarredchest she slipped a painted vest, old and faded, the one Drogo had loved best.For herself she chose loose sandsilk trousers, sandals that laced halfway upher legs, and a vest like Drogo’s.
丹妮为他扎起发辫，把银环穿上他的胡子，又把铃铛一个个系在他发梢。这么多铃铛，其中有金、银，还有青铜，这些铃铛将向他的敌人宣告他的到来，令他们胆怯害怕。她为他穿上马鬃绑腿和高统长靴，在他腰间系上一条满是金银奖牌的沉重皮带。最后，她为他穿上彩绘背心，遮住胸膛的伤疤，这背心虽然老旧褪色，却是他最喜欢的一件。至于自己，她选了一件宽松的沙丝长裤，一双绑到膝盖的凉鞋，以及和卓戈穿的相似的背心。
The sun was going down when she called themback to carry his body to the pyre. The Dothraki watched in silence as Jhogoand Aggo bore him from the tent. Dany walked behind them. They laid him down onhis cushions and silks, his head toward the Mother of Mountains far to thenortheast.
当她召唤他们来把卓戈的遗体搬到火葬台上时，太阳已经快要下山。乔戈和阿戈抬着他走出帐篷，多斯拉克人在旁静默地观看。丹妮走在他们之后。他们让他躺在自己的枕头和丝被上，头朝遥远东北的圣母山。
“Oil,” she commanded, and they brought forththe jars and poured them over the pyre, soaking the silks and the brush and thebundles of dry grass, until the oil trickled from beneath the logs and the airwas rich with fragrance. “Bring my eggs,” Dany commanded her handmaids.Something in her voice made them run.
“拿油来。”她一声令下，他们便抱来那一罐罐香油，浇淋在火葬堆上，浸湿了丝被、树枝和捆捆干草，渗进下面的木柴，空气中弥漫着香气。“把我的蛋也拿来。”丹妮吩咐女仆，声音里的某种东西促使她们拔腿就跑。
Ser Jorah took her arm. “My queen, Drogowill have no use for dragon’s eggs in the night lands. Better to sell them inAsshai. Sell one and we can buy a ship to take us back to the Free Cities. Sellall three and you will be a wealthy woman all your days.”
乔拉爵士抓住她的臂膀。“女王陛下，卓戈在夜晚的国度是用不着龙蛋的，不如拿到亚夏去卖了，只需卖一颗，我们便足以买下一艘大船，返回自由贸易城邦。而卖掉三颗所换来的财富，够您一辈子享用不尽。”
“They were not given to me to sell,” Danytold him.
“他送我这些蛋，不是要我拿去卖的。”丹妮告诉他。
She climbed the pyre herself to place theeggs around her sun-and-stars. The black beside his heart, under his arm. Thegreen beside his head, his braid coiled around it. The cream-and-gold downbetween his legs. When she kissed him for the last time, Dany could taste the sweetnessof the oil on his lips.
她爬上火葬堆，亲自将龙蛋放置于她的日和星身边。黑色的放在他心上，用手掌按住；绿色的放在他头旁，用发辫卷起；乳白和金黄相间的那颗则放在他双腿之间。随后，丹妮最后一次与他吻别，尝到他嘴唇上香精的甜蜜。
As she climbed down off the pyre, shenoticed Mirri Maz Duur watching her. “You are mad,” the godswife said hoarsely.
从火葬台上爬下来时，她注意到弥丽·马兹·笃尔注视着自己。“你疯了。”女祭司嘶声道。
“Is it so far from madness to wisdom?” Danyasked. “Ser Jorah, take this maegi and bind her to the pyre.”
“疯狂与智慧，真有那么大差别吗？”丹妮问，“乔拉爵士，将这巫魔女绑上火葬台。”
“To the?.?.?.?my queen, no, hear me?.?.?.?”
“绑上火……不，女王陛下，请您听我说……”
“Do as I say.” Still he hesitated, until heranger flared. “You swore to obey me, whatever might come. Rakharo, help him.”
“照我的话去做，”看他依旧犹豫不决，终于燃起了她的熊熊怒火。“你不是宣誓奉行我的意旨，至死不渝么？拉卡洛，你来帮他。”
The godswife did not cry out as they draggedher to Khal Drogo’s pyre and staked her down amidst his treasures. Dany pouredthe oil over the woman’s head herself. “I thank you, Mirri Maz Duur,” she said,“for the lessons you have taught me.”
于是女祭司被他俩拖到卓戈卡奥的火葬台上，跟他的宝物绑在一起。她没有叫喊。丹妮亲自将香油倒在那女人头上。“我感谢你，弥丽·马兹·笃尔，”她说，“感谢你教会我的一切。”
“You will not hear me scream,” Mirriresponded as the oil dripped from her hair and soaked her clothing.
“你绝不会听见我的哀嚎。”弥丽回答。香油从她的发际流下，渗进衣服。
“I will,” Dany said, “but it is not yourscreams I want, only your life. I remember what you told me. Only death can payfor life.” Mirri Maz Duur opened her mouth, but made no reply. As she steppedaway, Dany saw that the contempt was gone from the maegi’s flat black eyes; inits place was something that might have been fear. Then there was nothing to bedone but watch the sun and look for the first star.
“不，我会的，”丹妮说，“但我要的不是你的哀嚎，而是你的生命。我记得你曾对我说：惟有死亡方能换取生命。”弥丽·马兹·笃尔张口欲言，但最后还是没有答话。丹妮步下火葬台，发现巫魔女那双平板黑眼里的轻蔑已经不见，取而代之的是近似恐惧的神色。能做的都已经做了，接下来就是等待太阳落幕，群星现身。
When a horselord dies, his horse is slainwith him, so he might ride proud into the night lands. The bodies are burnedbeneath the open sky, and the khal rises on his fiery steed to take his placeamong the stars. The more fiercely the man burned in life, the brighter hisstar will shine in the darkness.
每当马王死去，他的坐骑也会被杀陪葬，如此他才可以骑乘骏马，昂然进入夜晚的国度。当他们的遗体在苍天之下火葬时，卡奥将骑着烈焰熊熊的炎马，腾越而出，化为天际的星斗。遗体燃烧得越旺，他在黑暗中的星宿就越是熠熠发光。
Jhogo spied it first. “There,” he said in ahushed voice. Dany looked and saw it, low in the east. The first star was acomet, burning red. Bloodred; fire red; the dragon’s tail. She could not haveasked for a stronger sign.
第一个发现的是乔戈。“在那里。”他压低声音说。丹妮朝他指的方向望去，低低的东方天际，有一颗红色的彗星，那是血的红色，火的红色，拖着龙的尾巴。她无法要求比这更强的征兆了。
Dany took the torch from Aggo’s hand andthrust it between the logs. The oil took the fire at once, the brush and driedgrass a heartbeat later. Tiny flames went darting up the wood like swift redmice, skating over the oil and leaping from bark to branch to leaf. A risingheat puffed at her face, soft and sudden as a lover’s breath, but in seconds ithad grown too hot to bear. Dany stepped backward. The wood crackled, louder andlouder. Mirri Maz Duur began to sing in a shrill, ululating voice. The flameswhirled and writhed, racing each other up the platform. The dusk shimmered asthe air itself seemed to liquefy from the heat. Dany heard logs spit and crack.The fires swept over Mirri Maz Duur. Her song grew louder, shriller?.?.?.?thenshe gasped, again and again, and her song became a shuddering wail, thin andhigh and full of agony.
丹妮从阿戈手中接过火把，插进柴堆。香油立即起火燃烧，细枝和干草只隔了一个心跳的瞬间也马上跟进。细小的火苗从柴堆各处窜出，有如动作迅捷的红鼠，滑过油层，从树皮跃到枝干，再跳上叶子。一股热气从火中升腾，朝她迎面扑来，轻柔而突兀，恍如爱人的呼息，但几秒之后，就热得令人难以忍受了。丹妮向后退去，木柴哔啪作响，声音越来越大，弥丽·马兹·笃尔开始用高亢尖锐的声音歌唱。火焰时而盘旋，时而扭动，彼此竟相追逐，朝台顶节节攀升。空气也仿佛因高热而液化，在暮色中闪闪发亮。丹妮听见柴薪爆裂，烈焰淹没了弥丽·马兹·笃尔，她的歌声变得更嘹亮、更尖锐……然后她突然喘了口气，再喘一口、一口，接着歌声成了颤抖的嚎啕，尖细高亢，充满痛苦。
And now the flames reached her Drogo, andnow they were all around him. His clothing took fire, and for an instant thekhal was clad in wisps of floating orange silk and tendrils of curling smoke,grey and greasy. Dany’s lips parted and she found herself holding her breath.Part of her wanted to go to him as Ser Jorah had feared, to rush into theflames to beg for his forgiveness and take him inside her one last time, thefire melting the flesh from their bones until they were as one, forever.
火焰烧到了卓戈，很快将他团团围住。他的衣服着了火，刹那间，卡奥仿佛穿着翻飞的橙色丝衣，身上冒出缕缕灰烟。丹妮张大了嘴巴，这才发现自己早已屏住呼吸。正如乔拉爵士所担心的，她心中的一部分只想冲进烈焰，请求他宽恕自己，最后一次进到自己体内。火熔肌肤，只余枯骨，长相厮守，直到永远。
She could smell the odor of burning flesh,no different than horseflesh roasting in a firepit. The pyre roared in thedeepening dusk like some great beast, drowning out the fainter sound of MirriMaz Duur’s screaming and sending up long tongues of flame to lick at the bellyof the night. As the smoke grew thicker, the Dothraki backed away, coughing.Huge orange gouts of fire unfurled their banners in that hellish wind, the logshissing and cracking, glowing cinders rising on the smoke to float away intothe dark like so many newborn fireflies. The heat beat at the air with greatred wings, driving the Dothraki back, driving off even Mormont, but Dany stoodher ground. She was the blood of the dragon, and the fire was in her.
她闻到人肉烧熟的味道，这与营火上烤马肉的气息并无二致。在渐渐深沉的暮色里，火葬台宛如一只咆哮的巨兽，盖过了弥丽·马兹·笃尔微弱的惨叫，吐出长长的火舌，舔噬夜空的肚腹。烟雾愈加浓密，多斯拉克人一边咳嗽，一边纷纷后退。橙色的巨焰鼓起炼狱的强风，将附近的旗帜吹得啪哒作响，木柴嘶声爆裂，发光的余烬自烟幕中升起，朝无边的黑夜飘去，仿若千百只新生的萤火虫。烈焰高升，挥动着巨大而火红的翅膀，逼得多斯拉克人节节退后，连莫尔蒙也走避开来，只有丹妮纹丝不动。她是真龙传人，体内有熊熊烈焰。
She had sensed the truth of it long ago,Dany thought as she took a step closer to the conflagration, but the brazierhad not been hot enough. The flames writhed before her like the women who haddanced at her wedding, whirling and singing and spinning their yellow andorange and crimson veils, fearsome to behold, yet lovely, so lovely, alive withheat. Dany opened her arms to them, her skin flushed and glowing. This is awedding, too, she thought. Mirri Maz Duur had fallen silent. The godswifethought her a child, but children grow, and children learn.
早在很久以前，她便已察觉了真相，只是当时的火盆不够热，丹妮一边想，一边朝大火走近一步。焰火在她面前蠕动，活如婚礼当天的女舞者，旋转着，高歌着，舞动着她们红橙黄三色的头纱。它们模样虽然骇人，形体却随着高热展现生机，显得异常美丽。丹妮张开双臂，迎向它们，她的皮肤泛红发光。这也像一场婚礼啊，她心想。弥丽·马兹·笃尔已经安静下来。女祭司当她是小孩子，但孩子是会成长，会学习的。
Another step, and Dany could feel the heatof the sand on the soles of her feet, even through her sandals. Sweat ran downher thighs and between her breasts and in rivulets over her cheeks, where tearshad once run. Ser Jorah was shouting behind her, but he did not matter anymore,only the fire mattered. The flames were so beautiful, the loveliest things shehad ever seen, each one a sorcerer robed in yellow and orange and scarlet,swirling long smoky cloaks. She saw crimson firelions and great yellow serpentsand unicorns made of pale blue flame; she saw fish and foxes and monsters,wolves and bright birds and flowering trees, each more beautiful than the last.She saw a horse, a great grey stallion limned in smoke, its flowing mane animbus of blue flame. Yes, my love, my sun-and-stars, yes, mount now, ride now.
丹妮再踏前一步，感觉到沙土的高热透过凉鞋底传到脚掌。汗水流过她的大腿和乳房，如河流一样自她双颊奔泻而下，那里本是她流干泪水的地方。乔拉爵士在背后喊她，但他已经不重要了，惟一要紧的是火。火焰是如此美丽，她此生没见过比这更漂亮的事物，每一簇火，都像身穿红橙黄三色袍子，肩披飘舞冒烟长斗篷的巫师。她看见鲜红的火狮、金黄的巨蛇和淡蓝火苗组成的独角兽，她看见鱼、狐狸和怪物，看见狼、鲜丽的飞乌和繁花的大树，一个比一个漂亮。最后，她看见一匹浓烟绘成的灰骏马，飞扬的马鬃是一团发光的蓝火。是的，吾爱，我的日和星，是的，上马吧，勇敢地骑马前行吧。
Her vest had begun to smolder, so Danyshrugged it off and let it fall to the ground. The painted leather burst intosudden flame as she skipped closer to the fire, her breasts bare to the blaze,streams of milk flowing from her red and swollen nipples. Now, she thought,now, and for an instant she glimpsed Khal Drogo before her, mounted on hissmoky stallion, a flaming lash in his hand. He smiled, and the whip snaked downat the pyre, hissing.
她的背心开始冒烟，丹妮把它脱开，任它落到地面，彩绘皮革立即爆出朵朵红焰。她朝火再迈一步，双乳暴露，火焰炙烤下，奶水如溪流般从她红润肿胀的乳头流下。就是现在，她明白，就是现在。刹那间，她瞥见卓戈卡奥正在她前方，骑着那匹烟灰骏马，手握火焰长鞭。他朝她微笑，只听嘶的一声，长鞭如蛇般朝火葬台窜去。
She heard a crack, the sound of shatteringstone. The platform of wood and brush and grass began to shift and collapse inupon itself. Bits of burning wood slid down at her, and Dany was showered withash and cinders. And something else came crashing down, bouncing and rolling,to land at her feet; a chunk of curved rock, pale and veined with gold, brokenand smoking. The roaring filled the world, yet dimly through the firefall Danyheard women shriek and children cry out in wonder.
喀啦，声音好似顽石挣裂。由木柴、细枝和干草搭建而成的平台开始摇晃，向内倒塌。燃烧的碎木片散落在她身旁，丹妮沐浴在一片灰烬和火星之中。某个不知名的东西轰隆滚落，弹跳之后掉在她脚边：那是一颗有弧度的石头，乳白色中有金黄纹路，正裂开冒烟。火势轰隆震天，隔着崩塌的烈焰，丹妮隐约听见妇女的尖叫和孩童惊奇的呼喊。
Only death can pay for life.
惟有死亡方能换取生命。
And there came a second crack, loud andsharp as thunder, and the smoke stirred and whirled around her and the pyreshifted, the logs exploding as the fire touched their secret hearts. She heardthe screams of frightened horses, and the voices of the Dothraki raised inshouts of fear and terror, and Ser Jorah calling her name and cursing. No, shewanted to shout to him, no, my good knight, do not fear for me. The fire ismine. I am Daenerys Stormborn, daughter of dragons, bride of dragons, mother ofdragons, don’t you see? Don’t you SEE? With a belch of flame and smoke thatreached thirty feet into the sky, the pyre collapsed and came down around her.Unafraid, Dany stepped forward into the firestorm, calling to her children.
喀啦，尖声轰隆有如雷霆。火葬台再度摇晃，浓烟卷起，在她周围旋绕，烈焰烧至中心，干柴纷纷爆裂。她听见马儿的惊叫，听见多斯拉克人惊恐的叫喊，听见乔拉爵士唤着她的名字，不停咒骂。不，她想吼回去，不，我亲爱的好骑士，毋需为我担心。你可知道？火焰本属于我，我是风暴降生丹妮莉丝，龙的女儿，龙的新娘，龙的母亲，你难道看不到吗？你难道听不见吗？随着一柱高达三十尺的擎天烈焰和浓烟，火葬台终于彻底崩塌，朝她四周坍倒下来。丹妮毫不畏惧地向前走去，走进火焰风暴，呼唤她的孩子。
The third crack was as loud and sharp as thebreaking of the world.
喀啦，震耳欲聋，仿佛天崩地裂。
When the fire died at last and the groundbecame cool enough to walk upon, Ser Jorah Mormont found her amidst the ashes,surrounded by blackened logs and bits of glowing ember and the burnt bones ofman and woman and stallion. She was naked, covered with soot, her clothesturned to ash, her beautiful hair all crisped away?.?.?.?yet she was unhurt.
当火焰终于熄灭，地面稍稍冷却之后，乔拉·莫尔蒙爵士在一片灰烬之中找到了她。在她身旁，尽是焦黑的木炭和发光的火烬，以及男人、女人和骏马烧焦的骨头。她浑身赤裸，覆盖烟灰，华裳全成灰屑，美丽的头发也焚烧殆尽……但她本人却安然无恙。
The cream-and-gold dragon was suckling at herleft breast, the green-and-bronze at the right. Her arms cradled them close.The black-and-scarlet beast was draped across her shoulders, its long sinuousneck coiled under her chin. When it saw Jorah, it raised its head and looked athim with eyes as red as coals.
那只乳白和金黄相间的龙吸吮着她的左乳，青铜与碧绿的那只吸着右乳，她用双手环抱着它们。黑红相间的那只龙垂挂在她肩头，用长长而蜿蜒的脖子缠绕着她的下巴。当它看到乔拉，便抬起头，睁大亮红如炭的眼睛盯着他。
Wordless, the knight fell to his knees. Themen of her khas came up behind him. Jhogo was the first to lay his arakh at herfeet. “Blood of my blood,” he murmured, pushing his face to the smoking earth.“Blood of my blood,” she heard Aggo echo. “Blood of my blood,” Rakharo shouted.
骑士一言不发地跪下，她的卡斯部众也跟上来。乔戈头一个将亚拉克弯刀放在她脚边。“吾血之血，”他喃喃道，将脸贴近冒烟的地面。“吾血之血，”她听见阿戈应和。“吾血之血，”拉卡洛叫道。
And after them came her handmaids, and thenthe others, all the Dothraki, men and women and children, and Dany had only tolook at their eyes to know that they were hers now, today and tomorrow andforever, hers as they had never been Drogo’s.
在他们之后，她的女仆们也来了，接着是其他的多斯拉克人，不论男女老幼，丹妮只需看看他们的眼睛，便知他们已经臣服于她，今日如此，明日亦然，直到永远，不是惧于卓戈威势的臣服，而是打从心底的心悦诚服。
As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, herblack hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other twopulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucentwings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds ofyears, the night came alive with the music of dragons.
丹妮莉丝·坦格利安站起身来，她的黑龙嘶地一声从口鼻吐出几缕白烟，另外的两只也同时松开她的乳头，齐声加入它的怒吼。它们张开半透明的翅膀，拍打空气。于是，龙族齐声高鸣的乐音响彻夜空，数百年来，这是头一次。
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