[ He hums. No, it need not be said. He no longer disappears without a word, without contact. When they reach out to him, he answers, even in the middle of a hunt. He doesn't want to worry any of them. Jaskier still stares at the scars on his back sometimes.
He glances up, pushes some of his beans towards Jaskier with the automatic motion of a man who has long accepted his food will be stolen. He takes the dried dates in return—more of an exotic fruit back home, but common in the Free Cities. ]
She only returned from a trip. And she's found her own hunting partners. [ Apparently. She did try to deny it, but Geralt would not be surprised to discover she invited Sephiroth again at some point.
Besides, they don't often hunt together regardless. Ciri likes to have her own contracts, her own reputation, and he wants that for her, too. She's grown. She's more than capable. It's good. He feels the loss of the years between them, those missing pieces he can never get back (unless the Singularity sees fit to grant them with another burst), but at the same time, it isn't bad either, to see the woman she's become and know that he had a hand in it. ]
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He glances up, pushes some of his beans towards Jaskier with the automatic motion of a man who has long accepted his food will be stolen. He takes the dried dates in return—more of an exotic fruit back home, but common in the Free Cities. ]
She only returned from a trip. And she's found her own hunting partners. [ Apparently. She did try to deny it, but Geralt would not be surprised to discover she invited Sephiroth again at some point.
Besides, they don't often hunt together regardless. Ciri likes to have her own contracts, her own reputation, and he wants that for her, too. She's grown. She's more than capable. It's good. He feels the loss of the years between them, those missing pieces he can never get back (unless the Singularity sees fit to grant them with another burst), but at the same time, it isn't bad either, to see the woman she's become and know that he had a hand in it. ]