A small nod of acknowledgment is all she offers for his condolences even though they are accepted. She prefers to be practical and look at what can be done rather than lament on what they have lost.

"Our hope was that your experience with the rifts might give us a better understanding of their affects on the world around them."

It's an open invitation for Geralt to share what he knows or believes of them if he accepts.

Anneth takes more interest in what he says about his own dragons. To here, there is a very important distinction to be made:

"By choice or by happenstance?"