[ CATCH-ALL ] and what you see is not the dark

[wiedzminka]

Who: Ciri & the friends(?) she made along the way
When: end of May - mid June
Where: Cadens, Nocwich, Horizon maybe
What: catching up after the wild and wacky 800 years that didn't happen
Warnings: in subject lines if necessary but probably none

it's just the gods upturning inkpots
'cause they know what you'll become

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[wiedzminka]

[ His nature is slow to change; it's always been this way, and -- if the stretched-out time spent together in the Singularity's crater is any indication -- he always will be. Sometimes, this is frustrating to her, even infuriating. Just as often, though, it is a source of steadiness and strength.

He gives her what she needs: reassurance that spears through the doubt clouding her waking hours these past days, a light to follow out of it. Something behind Ciri's ribs loosens. She lets out a slow breath. ]

The people were real. Some of them, people I've barely met before, or never even laid eyes on.

Is the time spent with them real if it didn't happen?

I keep thinking about it. And-- [ Briefly, she hesitates, looking away toward the shelves where some of the specimens are kept. ] I wonder also what the others remember. I didn't keep secrets after a time. The time might not have been real, but the secrets still are.

It's too much to hope for that no one will ask questions.

[gynvael]

[ Is it? She isn't wrong to ask. For Geralt, he has chosen to believe that if they agree it is real, then that's that. But he recognizes he has the benefit of having had no one in his life during those years behave...in ways he could not reconcile. In truth, were he was to doubt anything, it'd have happened much earlier—two years ago, when he awoke with the scorching memories of Yennefer's betrayal. A vision she did not hold but that he knew in his heart was true.

And yet. What made it true? Because Ciri and Jaskier also held the same memories?

He is aware, though, that for Ciri it goes beyond that. There are secrets she holds that may not have mattered throughout those centuries, but now again do. They've protected them as long as they can. Her presence at the Singularity revealed nothing, at least. ]

Let them ask, [ he says eventually. ] I trust your judgment.

[ They are no longer newly arrived on a world surrounded by strangers and unknowns. If this is to be her home, and if there are those she believes a friend, perhaps they ought to know...a few details. Some. It might relieve some of her burdens to share them.

And for those who are not, they'd have discovered that sooner or later. It may as well be now. ]

[wiedzminka]

[ She's thinking, of course, of Viktor. But it won't be only him. Already, Cid has started asking questions based on whatever understanding he had in the visions they only half-remember. How scattered are his memories? What of Ciri's own, not knowing who might be aware of things she never intended?

Slowly, she lets out a breath. Nods once. ]

I hope it won't come to it. But should there be problems...

Well. [ Ciri lifts her head again, offering a smile. They haven't solved anything. Nothing has actually changed. But it feels as though a burden has been lifted from her chest, just knowing Geralt stands with her, as he always does. It has helped, talking to him. ]

We'll handle things as they come. As we always do.

[ Together. ]