They changed tactics. Maybe I ran too far, or they got tired of chasing me. Every time I went somewhere new, they would find me again--
Until, instead, they found you.
[ Ciri scrubs her hand over her eyes again, shoulders slumping. She isn't crying anymore. She just looks... exhausted, like the memory alone of all that running, hiding, all that loneliness from the past has reemerged to weigh on her again. ]
I hoped you and Yennefer could be safe where I sent you. Somewhere just for the two of you to rest and be happy and be together. [ The anger creeps back into her voice now, a flicker of a spark beneath the tired hopelessness of the rest of it. ] But they found you and took you, I suppose to draw me out. It worked. They did the one thing I could not ignore.
[ If it all sounds hurried and complicated, that's because it is. She doesn't know what else to say about it. The story has no happy ending, after all. ]
I managed to free you, portal us away.
But I lost you again in the process, and I do not know what happened to Yennefer after she was freed from the Hunt as well. Somewhere on the Continent, I suppose. She's always found her own way.
But all I could do was keep running, and try not to get caught again.
...I'm sorry. [ Ciri lets her head drop with a sigh, closing her eyes. ] I failed you both.
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They changed tactics. Maybe I ran too far, or they got tired of chasing me. Every time I went somewhere new, they would find me again--
Until, instead, they found you.
[ Ciri scrubs her hand over her eyes again, shoulders slumping. She isn't crying anymore. She just looks... exhausted, like the memory alone of all that running, hiding, all that loneliness from the past has reemerged to weigh on her again. ]
I hoped you and Yennefer could be safe where I sent you. Somewhere just for the two of you to rest and be happy and be together. [ The anger creeps back into her voice now, a flicker of a spark beneath the tired hopelessness of the rest of it. ] But they found you and took you, I suppose to draw me out. It worked. They did the one thing I could not ignore.
[ If it all sounds hurried and complicated, that's because it is. She doesn't know what else to say about it. The story has no happy ending, after all. ]
I managed to free you, portal us away.
But I lost you again in the process, and I do not know what happened to Yennefer after she was freed from the Hunt as well. Somewhere on the Continent, I suppose. She's always found her own way.
But all I could do was keep running, and try not to get caught again.
...I'm sorry. [ Ciri lets her head drop with a sigh, closing her eyes. ] I failed you both.