Jaskier's hand settles on Geralt's wrist, and the gentle pressure of it is a comfort. They had all known that, one day, Kaer Morhen would be gone, but he hadn't thought that it would be so soon-- he'd thought there would be more time. Vesemir was old but still strong, they had thought that there would surely be a few more decades of winters spent in the old keep, of the old Wolf squabbling with Lambert and Geralt sparring with Eskel in the snow. Of Ciri returning to the place that she had spent her childhood.
Geralt takes the bard's hand and gives it a squeeze in return, as thanks for his kindness.
"I don't want to tell you too much," he says. "But thank you for offering."
Who knows what could happen if he tells this younger Dandelion about the Wild Hunt? Gods, would he then have to tell him about the Rivian pogrom, as well, and his and Yennefer's brush with death? The two year gap between bleeding out in the street and reappearing, a confused amnesiac, in the woods near Kaer Morhen?
How different would things have been, he wonders, if Dandelion had been there at the keep when he had been brought back. He had known that Triss was important to him the moment that he saw her, and he had known the same the moment that he'd set eyes on the bard, too, so many weeks later. But such things are impossible to predict. Maybe the course of his life would've run differently, for the better. Maybe Dandelion would've died when the keep was attacked, like Leo.
And even if he does tell him, what could a bard do to stop elves from a parallel world who want to take Ciri?
Thinking of the future, perhaps, is better. A future that has the possibility of making Corvo Bianco a safe haven for his friends and brothers.
"The xenovox is a one-way means of communication," he says. "I can only use it to speak to Yennefer. They're rare to find and difficult to make, too, so she can't just give them out to anyone. I'm stuck with letters, unless I want to try to ride out and find one of them myself."
Which would be a difficult thing to do even if Geralt had been out on the Path. He's an excellent tracker, but locating two wandering witchers somewhere in the Continent? Not an easy feat. Well--
"Hm. Keira might know where Lambert is. She was looking into a cure for the plague and might have gotten him to help."
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Geralt takes the bard's hand and gives it a squeeze in return, as thanks for his kindness.
"I don't want to tell you too much," he says. "But thank you for offering."
Who knows what could happen if he tells this younger Dandelion about the Wild Hunt? Gods, would he then have to tell him about the Rivian pogrom, as well, and his and Yennefer's brush with death? The two year gap between bleeding out in the street and reappearing, a confused amnesiac, in the woods near Kaer Morhen?
How different would things have been, he wonders, if Dandelion had been there at the keep when he had been brought back. He had known that Triss was important to him the moment that he saw her, and he had known the same the moment that he'd set eyes on the bard, too, so many weeks later. But such things are impossible to predict. Maybe the course of his life would've run differently, for the better. Maybe Dandelion would've died when the keep was attacked, like Leo.
And even if he does tell him, what could a bard do to stop elves from a parallel world who want to take Ciri?
Thinking of the future, perhaps, is better. A future that has the possibility of making Corvo Bianco a safe haven for his friends and brothers.
"The xenovox is a one-way means of communication," he says. "I can only use it to speak to Yennefer. They're rare to find and difficult to make, too, so she can't just give them out to anyone. I'm stuck with letters, unless I want to try to ride out and find one of them myself."
Which would be a difficult thing to do even if Geralt had been out on the Path. He's an excellent tracker, but locating two wandering witchers somewhere in the Continent? Not an easy feat. Well--
"Hm. Keira might know where Lambert is. She was looking into a cure for the plague and might have gotten him to help."