[ The pieces slot together easy enough. When something is too dangerous, too different, then burn it down. He doesn't know the exact circumstances—but he can imagine a human woman who fell in love with a vampire, raised a half-vampire child, is not a woman warmly welcomed by the world. ]
You were right. [ He shrugs a shoulder. The bread is placed carefully back on his plate, a few idle crumbs on the table. ] I have had a long time to learn to live with them. They just don't live long enough in turn to learn the same.
[ It is what it is. He's been taught better than to let it drive what he does. That's how they all ended up here in the first place, with this hollow keep and blood soaking the snow. He stays out of their way, except to take his contracts, his money. And even with Jaskier's music filling the taverns these days, even when people greet him with the White Wolf more than they curse at him, the wariness remains. It has followed him across worlds, and so far, he hasn't yet seen a reason to let it go. Not when his welcome here, at Thorne, had been as it was.
Funny, to want to return home, to know he has unfinished business there he needs to get to, and still understand that he's struggling to return to a world that doesn't want him. ]
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You were right. [ He shrugs a shoulder. The bread is placed carefully back on his plate, a few idle crumbs on the table. ] I have had a long time to learn to live with them. They just don't live long enough in turn to learn the same.
[ It is what it is. He's been taught better than to let it drive what he does. That's how they all ended up here in the first place, with this hollow keep and blood soaking the snow. He stays out of their way, except to take his contracts, his money. And even with Jaskier's music filling the taverns these days, even when people greet him with the White Wolf more than they curse at him, the wariness remains. It has followed him across worlds, and so far, he hasn't yet seen a reason to let it go. Not when his welcome here, at Thorne, had been as it was.
Funny, to want to return home, to know he has unfinished business there he needs to get to, and still understand that he's struggling to return to a world that doesn't want him. ]