[Jaskier nearly hits him in the speed with which he stares at Geralt.] I'm sorry, he told you he was going to turn into a demon? What the everloving fuck, Geralt?
[For a second, he can feel himself be furious about it -- if only specifically because the demon threatened him, likely because he is both an easy target and someone close to Geralt -- but he sighs and covers his face in his hands, letting it out. It is not an easy situation, and this is one he's even more embroiled in than he was when it happened to Ciri.
Gods, it's all so fucking stupid, isn't it? The hunters just make each other worse. Stuck in a hellish life where they're doomed to die, and then when they become close, they force even more trauma upon each other.
It is easy to wish Geralt had never gotten involved with Dean, because none of this would have happened. Perhaps he would have made himself someone else's problem. And why kidnap Ciri? He must have known things about her, what she was capable of -- from either Ciri, or Geralt himself. Either that, or the girl is simply demon bait.
It's easy to want such things when he's on the tertiary himself. There is nothing more human than wanting to eliminate their problems before they have even begun.]
I do not understand how this sort of thing always seems to happen with you involved. I suppose he refrained from telling you it would nearly be impossible to kill him when that happened, didn't he? [He drops his hands.] Of course he did. I'm sure he hoped it wouldn't happen. The sort of thing we can almost fool ourselves into believing, when the inevitable stares us in the face.
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[For a second, he can feel himself be furious about it -- if only specifically because the demon threatened him, likely because he is both an easy target and someone close to Geralt -- but he sighs and covers his face in his hands, letting it out. It is not an easy situation, and this is one he's even more embroiled in than he was when it happened to Ciri.
Gods, it's all so fucking stupid, isn't it? The hunters just make each other worse. Stuck in a hellish life where they're doomed to die, and then when they become close, they force even more trauma upon each other.
It is easy to wish Geralt had never gotten involved with Dean, because none of this would have happened. Perhaps he would have made himself someone else's problem. And why kidnap Ciri? He must have known things about her, what she was capable of -- from either Ciri, or Geralt himself. Either that, or the girl is simply demon bait.
It's easy to want such things when he's on the tertiary himself. There is nothing more human than wanting to eliminate their problems before they have even begun.]
I do not understand how this sort of thing always seems to happen with you involved. I suppose he refrained from telling you it would nearly be impossible to kill him when that happened, didn't he? [He drops his hands.] Of course he did. I'm sure he hoped it wouldn't happen. The sort of thing we can almost fool ourselves into believing, when the inevitable stares us in the face.