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The candle was almost gone. Less than an inch remained, jutting1 from a pool of warm melted wax to cast its light over the queen’s bed. The flame had begun to gutter2.
It will go out before much longer, Dany realized, and when it does another night will be at its end.
Dawn always came too soon.
She had not slept, could not sleep, would not sleep. She had not even dared to close her eyes, for fear it would be morning when she opened them again. If only she had the power, she would have made their nights go on forever, but the best that she could do was stay awake to try and savor3 every last sweet moment before daybreak turned them into no more than fading memories.
Beside her, Daario Naharis was sleeping as peacefully as a newborn babe. He had a gift for sleeping, he’d boasted, smiling in that cocksure way of his. In the field, he would sleep in the saddle oft as not, he claimed, so as to be well rested should he come upon a battle. Sun or storm, it made no matter. “A warrior4 who cannot sleep soon has no strength to fight,” he said. He was never vexed6 by nightmares either. When Dany told him how Serwyn of the Mirror Shield was haunted by the ghosts of all the knights8 he’d killed, Daario only laughed. “If the ones I killed come bother me, I will kill them all again.” He has a sellsword’s conscience, she realized then. That is to say, none at all.
Daario lay upon his stomach, the light linen10 coverlets tangled11 about his long legs, his face half-buried in the pillows.
Dany ran her hand down his back, tracing the line of his spine12. His skin was smooth beneath her touch, almost hairless. His skin is silk and satin. She loved the feel of him beneath her fingers. She loved to run her fingers through his hair, to knead the ache from his
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v.(使)突出( jut的现在分词 );伸出;(从…)突出;高出 | |
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手铐( shackle的名词复数 ); 脚镣; 束缚; 羁绊 | |
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n.(动植物的)膜皮( tunic的名词复数 );束腰宽松外衣;一套制服的短上衣;(天主教主教等穿的)短祭袍 | |
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plunder
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slit
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saturnine
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wager
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n.凹室( alcove的名词复数 );(花园)凉亭;僻静处;壁龛 | |
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