[ It isn't long before Ciri arrives. He senses her more than he sees her; that the wolf is with her instead of roaming the keep is no surprise. He pets it absently when it comes up to him, as though it recognizes that no threat looms for the moment.
He rises to meet her. The tension is taut around her. Geralt doesn't waste time avoiding the topic. She will want to hear what he has to say. ]
I found her at last, in the Horizon. She doesn't...recall as much as Jaskier and I. She knows she struck a deal. But not afterwards.
[ Not that she lied to them. To nearly the very end, she had lied to him, to Ciri. She'd known, and she'd lied, anyway. Taken Ciri, anyway. He understands Yennefer wants to believe she isn't capable. But the truth is, Yennefer here or Yennefer in those memories—they are not different people, just as he isn't different, either. Nor Jaskier. They remain themselves. ]
There's more. [ He pauses. ] She hasn't got her magic here.
[ He worries. That's what it comes down to. She's without her magic, again. And it troubles him what she will do to get it back, even if she were to insist she never would. ]
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He rises to meet her. The tension is taut around her. Geralt doesn't waste time avoiding the topic. She will want to hear what he has to say. ]
I found her at last, in the Horizon. She doesn't...recall as much as Jaskier and I. She knows she struck a deal. But not afterwards.
[ Not that she lied to them. To nearly the very end, she had lied to him, to Ciri. She'd known, and she'd lied, anyway. Taken Ciri, anyway. He understands Yennefer wants to believe she isn't capable. But the truth is, Yennefer here or Yennefer in those memories—they are not different people, just as he isn't different, either. Nor Jaskier. They remain themselves. ]
There's more. [ He pauses. ] She hasn't got her magic here.
[ He worries. That's what it comes down to. She's without her magic, again. And it troubles him what she will do to get it back, even if she were to insist she never would. ]