To her great annoyance, his words give her pause. He isn't wrong, after all; Ciri's felt it too, the wrongness of this place on top of its weirdness and unfamiliarity. They are trapped here, wherever here is, entangled in the Horizon. The Singularity.

Always the fucking Singularity.

The rules are different now. It's too great a risk to bet on how different.

Tight-lipped and glaring, Ciri slowly lowers her sword.

"So what's your brilliant plan, then?"