[ Home instead of back, returning, Cadens, any number of other descriptions which could be used for the end of a journey is noted, and Claude contemplates that. Geralt's been here for a long time, he recalls, and Ciri mentioned a year. Perhaps with enough time it will feel like home. It's not a concept Claude's unfamiliar with, even if the execution of being here is much different than moving to somewhere else in his life before.

Something else also comes to mind with this new connection, but first what they found being described with neat brevity gets a short laugh from him. ]

Unusual is certainly a good word for it, considering it seemed to be nothing I've seen before. I'm starting to think that description counts for less and less given how much I've never seen before, [ a wave to the plant he's still standing by, as one more example of so very many, ] but the soldiers were surprised to see a ravine where the map didn't have one marked. That makes it all the more of an oddity, I should think.

But it's funny, I would've said Jesper if I had to guess who you knew since he seems to know just about everyone. Though now that I think about it, I've seen you and Ciri around together here and there. Have you both been here about the same amount of time?

[ Just curious. ]