[ CLOSED ] here in this garden of bones

[gynvael]

Who: Geralt + Various
When: May
Where: Cadens; Horizon
What: Catch-all for May
Warnings: basic witcher canon stuff, adding as we go



(( starters below. discontinued or at Noa#1979 to plot. ))

Comments

[subhuman]

[ Created by alchemy? Unfortunately not something that Dante is wholly unfamiliar with, though where he's from that usually has a lot more to do with demons as well. He doesn't make the same assumptions of Geralt. Even if he hadn't spent enough time in Abraxas to know that people in this world come from literally all over, he knows the feel of demons. He'd be able to tell.

Still, a "Withcher". He's got a name to put to it. ]

Pest control's in high demand, is it?

[ Enough that people would literally create individuals to deal with it rather than start a job fair? He'd guessed Geralt was a mercenary of sorts, but to be actually bred, in a way, to do it...

Doesn't leave the guy much of a choice, does it?

The mention of Nero does give pause. Seems like Nero has shared something of his past. The kid's much more open that Dante will ever be, but Fortuna isn't an easy topic. ]

He's one of the best.

[ But, he has to pat his chest with a weak little grin. ]

After me, of course.

[gynvael]

[ Demons simply don't exist in that way on Geralt's sphere. The line between what makes a monster is...not so thick. He clearly isn't human—but beyond that? It's hard to say. The essence of who he was never changed. Only his physical biology. ]

Not really. [ His tone is ironic. ] Over the past century or so...they've been dying out.

[ So have the Witchers. He finds more work in Cadens. Between the beasts that hassle merchants and the demand for alchemy ingredients, there's no shortage of things to kill, gold to make.

The joke is lacklustre, but Dante is. Trying, evidently. Geralt shakes his head. No, he doesn't doubt that. Nero may carry a short temper, but he is skilled. And he has a good heart. ]

Can't be much to kill in Thorne, is there?