[ Once he's released the girls to Serenity, he kneels down by the bodies he felled. Serenity doesn't quite answer him, and Geralt decides not to push. He can find the information he needs another way; he's already rummaging through their pockets, searching for an insignia, stolen jewels, coin, something that might tell him what direction he should ride next.
It isn't until she speaks again that he looks up. His thumb rubs over a bloodstained gold brooch. He wishes he could tell her they have the power to bring some kind of endless peace to the world. They haven't. He is exactly where he found himself eight hundred years before, with his sword by his side and blood soaking the ground, and that will never change. ]
For good? You don't. [ He rises to his feet. ] Monsters do not rest. But I'll find this one. I promise.
[ Whoever it was, he'll track them down. There's always a source. He remembers that lesson well after all this time. His head tilts as he studies Serenity's hidden eyes. She is not the young girl he first met anymore, but a part of him can't help seeing that girl in her regardless. ]
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It isn't until she speaks again that he looks up. His thumb rubs over a bloodstained gold brooch. He wishes he could tell her they have the power to bring some kind of endless peace to the world. They haven't. He is exactly where he found himself eight hundred years before, with his sword by his side and blood soaking the ground, and that will never change. ]
For good? You don't. [ He rises to his feet. ] Monsters do not rest. But I'll find this one. I promise.
[ Whoever it was, he'll track them down. There's always a source. He remembers that lesson well after all this time. His head tilts as he studies Serenity's hidden eyes. She is not the young girl he first met anymore, but a part of him can't help seeing that girl in her regardless. ]
Will you be okay?