Most decisions people make are 'cause they're afraid, but it don't mean there's not hubris there too. If it was all fear, they'd treat y'all better. They made you to be their heroes, but from what I understand, they seem to have forgotten that.

[ It doesn't make sense to her, at all. If his world really does track as closely to her world's past as she believes, then they no doubt have a surplus of stories about heroic knights and warriors. King Arthur winning battles doesn't sound like much compared to fighting literal monsters. The mages wanted David to defeat Goliath, so why be upset at David in the aftermath? Witchers appear to do exactly what they were designed to do, and unless there's some shit that she's really misunderstanding, they also don't sound like they've lost their humanity. Geralt reasons and converses and, from what she can tell, isn't a cannibal, so what's to be afraid of?

She laughs and rolls her eyes, like she can't picture herself as a proper mage. Granted, her entire understanding of what a mage even is is based on the ones in Abraxas, or else fairytales of Merlin. They all seem so polished and skilled, and all she wants to be able to do is make fire without exploding shit. ] I'm workin' on just not blowin' shit up right now. The best I got so far are these little fireballs, but they mostly fizzle out or explode in the air pretty quick.