[ a roof under these circumstances isn't anything more than a cage, but she keeps that thought to herself. it takes strength to reach some kind of tolerance for all of this. if he's found it, she doesn't want to make things worse.]

Well I had hoped to come see you after we spoke about you, but that was just before our time in the Horizon. [ forgetting who she was had prevented her from making a trip down to see him. not to mention how their time there had complicated things for all of them, Belle included.] Jaskier did seem hesitant to talk about you at first.

[ she adds that because she thinks she ought to, since Geralt seems used to Jaskier and his stories, and she did initiate the original conversation hoping that having someone to talk to would be a comfort to him at the time.]

Once he found out I've been trying to help people down here, he told me about you.

[she shrugs, though her gaze doesn't leave him.]

I was imprisoned by an evil queen back in the Enchanted Forest. I don't want any of you to think that you're in this alone.