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[lovelybottom]

                  

Hm.

[Silence. In the background, a faint, admonishing Geralt! can be heard.]

Call the bard.

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[lovelybottom]

You're right, it's from me. Didn't think Lambert was that common of a name.

[Then again, you wouldn't think that Geralt is either, but somehow Byleth's father was also named basically the same thing.]

Is it going to be a problem?

[bestswordmaster]

what?
no.
I'm proud to know you think so highly of me.
but I didn't realize you resented your work.
why?

[lovelybottom]

I don't. Lambert does.

[bestswordmaster]

I see.
my question remains.

[lovelybottom]

No one chooses to become a witcher. Boys end up at the schools either as orphans, abandoned, or children of surprise. Lambert was the latter.

Even once you're there, the training is brutal. Boys die. You could argue that they're the lucky ones. Death from cold or accident is usually quick. The ones that survive long enough are Trialed, and seven in ten are lost to that. There are more Trials later, but those claim fewer boys. Still, a cohort of two dozen will be down to three or four at most by the time they're old enough to get their medallions.

Once they're old enough to take to the Path, all they have to look forward to are monsters and scorn and death.

When I thought you would make a good Wolf, it was a compliment to your skills, but I wouldn't wish the life of a witcher on you.