Estinien scoffs, furrowing his brow at Geralt in a way that is not entirely without humour. He hasn't completely given up, but he's running out of ideas, and he can't figure out any way to save himself by merit alone.

"I'm only being a realist," he says. "My best efforts were put towards escaping captivity the first time... with that ending in failure, I'm struggling to figure out what else I might offer. You said yourself, it's surprising I'm not dead already."

Though he argues, it's in a tone that matches Geralt's. He fully realizes that he's capable of being fatalistic. He never spent much time considering that he might be alive to see the war end, after all.

"But... if there were another chance, I would take it. Though it might be my last."