"As a brick through a window," she says it with fondness, even if it is also simultaneously a little bit at his expense. Having the common ground of a friend– does Ciri consider Jesper a friend? Inej isn't sure– does help a bit, regardless of the initial tension of this meeting.

She nods, "He's my best friend, but he is as much my family as my own blood." They've been through far too much in the last three years together to be anything less.