Authenticity



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    The funny part was that Lambert almost didn’t even go back to Kaer Morhen that winter. Maybe it wouldn’t have made a difference in the long run. Maybe the four of them—him and Eskel and Geralt and that damn little songbird—were Destiny with a capital D (heh), and would have ended up in the same place eventually no matter what.

    Or maybe Destiny was for chumps.

    Lambert made the choice to go home. He made the choice to bring Geralt’s bard with him. And everything that came after that was a choice, too, even the love.

    Maybe especially the love.

    Ok, so funny wasn’t the right word. Whatever. Lambert wasn’t a big words guy.

    It was just that when he rode into sight of the base of The Killer that year and his stomach curdled with something a little bit like homesickness and a lotta bit like dread, and instead of turning around he chose to go to the village that squatted at its base and stock up for the climb—

    Well, that turned out to be an incredibly meaningful fucking choice. That’s all he was saying.

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    Jaskier is trying his best to keep up with the work of Kaer Morhen but he's only a human. He should have known he could only push himself so far before it all comes toppling down.

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    Jaskier had climbed the trail up to the keep before with Geralt and it had definitely taken a lot less time. (The Witchers themselves called it ‘the killer’, and they had the nerve to call Jaskier dramatic). But Geralt was only pretending he wasn’t ill, and Jaskier himself was admittedly tired and sore and hungry again. The bread and dried fruit they’d bought for lunch with their last orrens barely made a dent in it.

    After a hard year, Jaskier and Geralt head up to Kaer Morhen for the winter to rest and recover. But they aren’t the only guests, and Jaskier rummages around in everybody’s closets until he finds the ghosts.

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    Geralt barely had time to throw up Quen.

    The Sign flared, a dull gold shimmer, before the creature struck. The impact threw him back, the shield cracking like ice. Steel rang on talon. Feathers and fur filled his vision. The beast shrieked, a sound that clawed the air apart.

    Jaskier’s shout was lost in the roar.

    Geralt rolled, came up on one knee, slashed low. The blade met hide and bit shallowly — not enough. The griffin reared, blood spattering the snow, wings beating with hurricane force. Geralt’s hood was torn away.

    Another strike — a flash of claws — and pain like fire seared across his ribs. He stumbled back, breath torn from him. Quen guttered and failed.

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    Geralt gets badly injured by a Griffin about 4 days away from Kaer Morhen, and Jaskier has to bring him to Kaer Morhen by himself

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    Geralt signed Igni to try to get a better look at his surroundings, but he could barely summon a spark. Still, the spark was enough to catch a flash of orange in his periphery, and with that Geralt became abruptly, excruciatingly aware of the massive pair of archgriffin wings dragging at his aching back.

    A.K.A. Geralt gets wings and, consequently, a bard, and must learn to live with them.

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