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    "He clenches his jaw, and he sets his shoulders, and he does his fucking job. He wakes up, he kills what needs killing, he sleeps, and then he does it all again. That’s what life is.

     

    Strong things live. Weak things die. That’s life.

     

    Geralt has never been weak. He is strong, and he will live, no matter how little it matters. He packs it all down, any flicker of hurt, any ache of want, he balls it up tightly in his chest and leaves it to rot. He doesn’t need to feel to live."

    (The lessons we learn as children stay with us). (But sometimes, if we're very, very lucky, we get to unlearn them).

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    Julian will never regret speaking the words that saved his sister. And yet, as he clings to the saddle with a white-knuckled grip, barely able to keep himself from slipping off his horse as it climbs the steep incline leading to the Witcher Keep, he can’t help but wish someone had loved him enough to do the same.

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    the terribly, terribly self-indulgent Warlord AU nobody asked for

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    “Don’t look,” Essi says, “But there’s a man three booths behind us. He’s been following us for quite some time now.”
    Jaskier can’t help himself and looks. Their shadow is partly covered by other market goers but the bard spots flaming red curls and arms big enough that he could be a blacksmith. He wears armor, so he’s probably a mercenary, selling his sword.

    In which Jaskier meets the witcher family, has some family problems of his own, and Geralt is idiotically unaware.

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    Young Geralt meets young Jaskier at Melitele's Temple.

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    On his very first day, a child with enormous blue eyes, a little younger than Geralt or simply shorter, starts following him around.

    Geralt is unnerved. There are other Witchers in training in Kaer Morhen, so it’s not like he isn’t used to being around kids his age, but they never mingle with civilians. Civilians need them, but don’t like them very much, Vesemir says, and Geralt suspects that to be a euphemism, a new word he just learned. A kindness. He’d seen the looks on people’s faces, how quickly they step away from them in the way you do when you put your hands too close to a fire. Witchers are useful, but dangerous, even the ones as young as Geralt. You wouldn’t adopt a wolf cub, knowing what he will grow into.

    Geralt’s efforts to avoid the child last an impressive ten minutes.

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    “The front gates have been breached. It’s only a matter of time before the enemy forces have stormed the castle.”

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