Jaskier is a surprisingly good customer-- he's courteous to the other patrons, treats the horses well. He seems to like Pegasus and the horse likes him in return, which is about as good of a recommendation as Geralt can get for anyone. He's... fine. He sends Geralt text messages about stupid things that happen during his day, sometimes even the occasional YouTube video about something silly. Geralt occasionally responds when he thinks the message merits it, but even when he doesn't reply, he reads them all.
His therapist says that this is how people make friends. Geralt doesn't exactly agree with him, but he doesn't hate the musician's presence around the barn. That's... enough, probably. He wouldn't call them friends, but he's... not bad. Acceptable.
figured i should have you down when you can't bother anyone else get here around 3 if you want a picnic, bring something that works with fruit
Which isn't dissuading the picnic, really. It just means that Jaskier has to take the initiative, Geralt will go along with it.
It's getting into summer, and Geralt... well, usually he'd go up and pick wild berries with Ciri, but she's at her mother's for the next few weeks. So there's a lot of berries that need to be gathered or else they'll just get eaten by birds, and he might as well take Jaskier up to help, right? And it's not like he'll get nothing out of it, anyway, he'll get all the berries that he can carry home. He can make jam or something.
He's tacking up Roach when the musician arrives, lifting the saddle onto her back and tightening up the girth, his biceps straining against the confines of his shirt. He has baskets ready to attach to the saddle, to take up with them when they go up. Water and snacks in the saddlebags, though not anything particularly fancy-- nuts and trail mix, the kind of stuff that you pack in case someone starts getting hypoglycemic during a ride. Not exactly the stuff of romantic platonic picnics.
He looks over his shoulder at Jaskier, then returns his attention to Roach.
"Pegasus could use the exercise," he says, which isn't much of a greeting, admittedly. But it's easy to talk about horses. "Had a lesson canceled."
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His therapist says that this is how people make friends. Geralt doesn't exactly agree with him, but he doesn't hate the musician's presence around the barn. That's... enough, probably. He wouldn't call them friends, but he's... not bad. Acceptable.
figured i should have you down when you can't bother anyone else
get here around 3
if you want a picnic, bring something that works with fruit
Which isn't dissuading the picnic, really. It just means that Jaskier has to take the initiative, Geralt will go along with it.
It's getting into summer, and Geralt... well, usually he'd go up and pick wild berries with Ciri, but she's at her mother's for the next few weeks. So there's a lot of berries that need to be gathered or else they'll just get eaten by birds, and he might as well take Jaskier up to help, right? And it's not like he'll get nothing out of it, anyway, he'll get all the berries that he can carry home. He can make jam or something.
He's tacking up Roach when the musician arrives, lifting the saddle onto her back and tightening up the girth, his biceps straining against the confines of his shirt. He has baskets ready to attach to the saddle, to take up with them when they go up. Water and snacks in the saddlebags, though not anything particularly fancy-- nuts and trail mix, the kind of stuff that you pack in case someone starts getting hypoglycemic during a ride. Not exactly the stuff of
romanticplatonic picnics.He looks over his shoulder at Jaskier, then returns his attention to Roach.
"Pegasus could use the exercise," he says, which isn't much of a greeting, admittedly. But it's easy to talk about horses. "Had a lesson canceled."