Does it? [ Geralt makes a thoughtful sound. He has not considered it to feel in reverse. ] The violence was only the beginning. Blood begets monsters begets more blood.
[ Though the attacks destroyed much, they are to him...small. In the grand scheme of things. Two cities burned, crops lost, soldiers on alert. But no armies are marching, citizens are not yet fleeing their home states, and no villages have been massacred and occupied. No men forcefully conscripted.
War is here, but it's not quite swallowed everything in its wake. If it's disrupted something in the earth, something through the Singularity—
But then, he's never believed in signs. He believes in consequences. And this, it feels like a consequence of the bloodshed. There was an answer for the Wild Hunt. There's an answer for this, too. ]
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[ Though the attacks destroyed much, they are to him...small. In the grand scheme of things. Two cities burned, crops lost, soldiers on alert. But no armies are marching, citizens are not yet fleeing their home states, and no villages have been massacred and occupied. No men forcefully conscripted.
War is here, but it's not quite swallowed everything in its wake. If it's disrupted something in the earth, something through the Singularity—
But then, he's never believed in signs. He believes in consequences. And this, it feels like a consequence of the bloodshed. There was an answer for the Wild Hunt. There's an answer for this, too. ]