[ CLOSED ] my skin peels off like paint

[gynvael]

Who: Geralt + Various
When: April Pre-event
Where: Cadens, Horizon
What: In the aftermath of Nero's death
Warnings: Standard Witcher canon.


can't you hear that scratching?
there's something at the door;

discontinued | quantifies | starters below.

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[cointosser]

Perfect. [It's better than sitting in this room, trying not to ponder too much of what Geralt was writing (he resists peeking), drinking their sorrows. He has tried so many times to drink his sorrows, and it only has ended up with more.

Rience, that stupid prince... but Jeaskier is lucky in that he's only ever lost so little.

It is only that Destiny seems determined he bear witness to Geralt's.

Jaskier hardly need question why there is something of the hunter's in Geralt's domain. It is enough that there is a remnant, and they have a place to put a reminder of him. With the close-knit nature of the Summoned, he imagines it is not only Geralt who misses his presence -- but those sort may be the ones who come to the tree to see it, too.

The tree, the hall... it's all quiet. A far cry from the time Jaskier and Amos fell into that basement, and he held the man as he rattled from whatever memories haunted him. This place has its own ghosts, but much more welcome ones. And ones that no longer stink of blood.

Perhaps he's gone home, is what a fool might have said, as if it should help. Instead Jaskier touches the branch of the tree the necklace hangs from, growing a single white bud.]

I wouldn't be anywhere else. [His smile to Geralt is lined in too many wrinkles. Will his friend ever cease losing?] And lucky for you, I don't have plans to rush off without you, either.

[There is just them, the quiet of the hall, the snapping of the fires. The hanging necklace on a tree of memorials. The ghost of a man no longer here, and the reminder that Jaskier has outlived men who should have far, far outlived him instead.

(That Geralt is another one.)]