Jaskier's scent sours, all because of a single coin. Did it mean that much to him, to have this one coin be from Geralt? To tie this in to the lyrics of the song that made him famous? And could there really be all that many good memories tied up in this? Geralt remembers that hunt well, and none of it was something that he would've wanted to memorialize with a fucking keepsake. Did he miss some grand moment in between punching a teenager in the stomach and getting beaten up by elves?

"It can have whatever meaning you want it to," he says. "It's yours. Though I don't see why you wouldn't want a better keepsake than an old coin."

Hell, his lute is a far better memento of the whole thing than the coin. He got a fucking lute from the king of the elves after they broke his old one, which he then went on to use to compose the damn coin song to begin with, but it's the coin that he wants to have meaning. Is it because it was the first thing that Geralt gave him? Or, well, that he thought he gave to him, anyway.

Geralt goes over to him and picks up his things, to carry them down to the library for him. All of these notebooks and quills and things seems excessive, but who's he to argue?

"Are you ready to go? I've already kept Eskel waiting."