[ It's a difficult thing, isn't it? To have to ask what shapes you? Geralt hasn't got an answer. Flagg found Nadine incredibly young. Even if Flagg had no magic, no power—he would hardly be the first to prey on a child to do his bidding. It doesn't take a demon for that. Just a man. ]

He did disappear. [ In the end, what-ifs are only that. A path not walked. ] You aren't like him. And I believe, were he to return, you'd no longer want what he has. No matter the mark he left behind.

[ That, Geralt does know. She isn't the same person he met. Who she may have become is not who she is now. She can't forget the past—nor should she—but he doesn't think she should let the weight of it continue to anchor her. She deserves more than that. ]