"I probably would have been happier if I'd just stayed in the children's home. But it wasn't up to me. And some of the other kids there were...scared of me, so maybe I wouldn't have been."

Nadine glances over at him, hesitating. She's not often one to ask questions, and particularly of Geralt. But he doesn't have to answer, she supposes.

"Witcher...I've heard that a couple times now. I'm not familiar." But she's a bit curious. He's alluded to his differences before, but that had hardly been the time to start pursuing a line of questioning. Still. There's a sort of kinship in being 'different'.

She can make assumptions. 'Left in the mountains' makes her think of old monasteries, the rest of secret societies.