Since they're Jaskier's birds and presumably tamed to a degree (ideally), Geralt reaches up to take one in each hand off his head, wrapped around their small bodies and pinning their wings to the side. At least now he knows why Jaskier had taken a day-long nap recently. He was crafting these damn birds.
He leans over the side further and releases one of the birds fluttering in the cat's direction. Is he using Jaskier's bird as bait? He is. The nature of having grown up in the wilds, hunting, is that it does not occur to Geralt that they're meant for anything else. When you have a predator you need to distract, you use small prey as bait. The other bird, he sets atop the trap with a bit of the bread Jaskier has handed him. The rest of the bread goes in the trap.
Geralt decides this is sufficient. They have the cat occupied, a decoy bird feeding atop the trap to provide a lull of safety, and the trap itself. Is that it? Are they finished here? He has a gryphon bed to finish building and a bottle of vodka.
Of course, it's possible the wrong bird may trigger the trap. Also possible there are other complications he's yet to foresee, because he was granted exactly thirty seconds to prepare for this job.
About this time, the pigeon he released towards the cat flutters back over the roof and lands neatly upon his head again. (He is going to kill Jaskier and the trap maker.) ]
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Since they're Jaskier's birds and presumably tamed to a degree (ideally), Geralt reaches up to take one in each hand off his head, wrapped around their small bodies and pinning their wings to the side. At least now he knows why Jaskier had taken a day-long nap recently. He was crafting these damn birds.
He leans over the side further and releases one of the birds fluttering in the cat's direction. Is he using Jaskier's bird as bait? He is. The nature of having grown up in the wilds, hunting, is that it does not occur to Geralt that they're meant for anything else. When you have a predator you need to distract, you use small prey as bait. The other bird, he sets atop the trap with a bit of the bread Jaskier has handed him. The rest of the bread goes in the trap.
Geralt decides this is sufficient. They have the cat occupied, a decoy bird feeding atop the trap to provide a lull of safety, and the trap itself. Is that it? Are they finished here? He has a gryphon bed to finish building and a bottle of vodka.
Of course, it's possible the wrong bird may trigger the trap. Also possible there are other complications he's yet to foresee, because he was granted exactly thirty seconds to prepare for this job.
About this time, the pigeon he released towards the cat flutters back over the roof and lands neatly upon his head again. (He is going to kill Jaskier and the trap maker.) ]