CHAPTER 10 A Village in Shiota

 “How many children’s tales do you believe? Do you believe that if you sleep on Old Hob’s Hill under a full moon, the snakes will give you true answers to three questions, or that foxes steal people’s skins and take the nourishment from food so you can starve to death while eating your fill?”
闲聊中Tuon提到的迷信，当然是来自真实的，蛇是Aelfinn，狐狸是Eelfinn，三个问题是Mat的经历，而人皮是什么？Mat进入ter'angreal以后，看到过Eelfinn穿着人皮制成的衣服，可是不知道这人皮的来源是何处。而从食物中偷走营养是什么意思呢，Finns以人类的强大气场和情绪为食，这和养料有关吗？或者这个饿死的传说，来自死在塔中的Birgitte?
In Shandalle, the land where Artur Hawkwing had been born, though, Old Hob, Caisen Hob, had been another name for the Dark One. The Aelfinn and the Eelfinn both surely deserved to be connected to the Dark One, yet that was hardly anything he wanted to think on when he had his own connection to the bloody foxes.
而Old Hob指得是DO。Finn的世界和DO是有关系的吗？在DO的洞被打通前，有没有Finns的世界？两个大红门是在之前还是之后制造出来的，制造的目的又是什么？对于和DO有联系的人，比如Moridin，Slayer，贞洁之塔似乎是个可以随便出入的地方，这是不是也表示了Finns和DO的关系？
希望明年这一切都可以得到解释。
That pretty head held a few odd notions, such as that you could calm a fractious horse by biting its ear!
霄晨驯马法。
The sound jerked him upright. That road had not been paved since . . . 
又是古代回忆，这个村子是不存在的，Mat的熟悉感是因为，村子的建筑式样是古代Shiota的，Shiota存在于兽人战争后。
“Keep going!” Mat bellowed. “They’re dead! Keep going!” Behind him, somebody gasped, Tuon or Selucia. Maybe both.
村子里的人都是鬼魂，路过的货郎完全没意识到，还在对他们讲最近的新闻。
而货郎沉到地下，好像和那些无害的幽灵现象又不相同，更像是邪恶泡沫。也许因为Mat这个扫把星在附近吧。
Tuon caught Mat’s coat from one side, Selucia from the other. That was the first he realized he had moved Pips. Toward the peddler. Light!
唉，所以说乔丹自己并非没有三观。
总觉着这一步就是Mat和Perrin的最大区别。虽然是陌生人，自己也完全无能为力，可他下意识地会向前走一步，想去帮助他，至少希望他能少受点痛苦。再看Perrin在So Habor，以及后来在Almizar的行为，真是太冷漠了。第一卷Perrin的第一个POV就说，自己是深思熟虑，总比Mat的轻率少惹点麻烦。可是他深思熟虑的不作为，不关心，和Mat想都不想就去帮助别人的轻率相比，我自然会倾向于后者。
Noal appeared troubled, too, shaking his head and muttering under his breath. 
他有不知回忆起了什么。
“I should like to see these cities,” Tuon said, moving Akein nearer to Pips. “Will you show them to me, Toy?”
她说这话，是“带我去玩”的意思吗？更像是，帮我征服这些城市的意思吧。
下面这段Luca的口才展示明显是在拖戏，倒导致了一个有趣的结果，玛丽莲赢了Mat一次。
Thom accepted with a small bow. “I think I’ll keep this as a memento,” he said, rolling the fat gold coin across the back of his fingers. “To remind me that even the luckiest man in the world can lose.”
呵呵，反正你是吃定他了。
“I will see Tar Valon one day,” Tuon said calmly in the middle of that. “I shall probably make it my capital. I shall have you show me the city, Toy. You have been there?”
果然是帮我征服的意思。
. “Do you know nothing, Toy? The dead walking is a sign that Tarmon Gai’don is near.” He did not take this for one of her superstitions; after all, he had thought something very like that himself.
这个不是迷信啦，是有记载的。

晚上的聚会。
“There’s no need for that, with me or anyone else,” she drawled, bending to take Amathera by the shoulders and draw her to her feet.
Leilwin夫妇和竹林夫妇的和解，友谊的开始。
Thom又在摸他的信，这个时候在场的人：
Mat
Thom
Olver
Noal
“If you don’t mind my asking, Thom, why do you read that letter the way you do? I mean, sometimes your face looks like you’re trying to puzzle out what it means.”
玛丽莲当然不mind啦，你以为他老把这封信拿出来左看右看是为了什么，不就是等着你问嘛。
“My dearest Thom.”
非常令人震惊的一句话，沐姐不但一早就和玛丽莲很熟，而且还和他有一腿。
信里的关键信息，沐姐没死，等着被救，但成功率不高：
It also may be that you and Mat Cauthon and another, a man I do not know, will try to rescue me.
三个人，是必须的
Should you decide to make the attempt anyway, young Mat knows the way to find me, yet you must not show him this letter until he asks about it. 
Mat知道地点。
A final point. Remember what you know about the game of Snakes and Foxes. Remember, and heed.
和蛇与狐狸游戏有关。
这封信根本没有提到是谁害死了玛丽莲的侄子。
“The Tower of Ghenjei,” Olver piped up, and all three adults turned their heads to stare at him. “Birgitte told me,” he said defensively. “The Tower of Ghenjei is the way to the lands of the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn.”
Birgitte告诉Olver的。
Noal shrugged, but Olver spoke up once more. “Birgitte says you make the sign on the side of it anywhere with a bronze knife.” 
进入的方法。
They stared at him as if he were mad, even Olver. There was nothing for it but to tell them about his encounters with the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn. 
把这个大秘密都告诉他们了。
He had only spotty memories of fleeing Shadar Logoth, and very vague recollections of escaping on Domon’s rivership, but one thing seen on that voyage stood out. A tower shining like burnished steel.
就是第一卷在Domon的船上看到的塔，他哪会想去里面寻宝，还怀疑Domon想独吞宝贝。这会儿可是真要去寻宝，真心不想去了。
玛丽莲的以死相逼之下，
“Burn me for a fool,” he muttered. “I’ll go.”
最后一个骰子停下，世界有救了。