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    The bard doesn’t seem to notice Geralt lurking behind him until Geralt clears his throat, a low rumble, which makes him turn.

    “Goodness,” he says. “Hello. You’re very… loomy.”

    Now she’s closer, Ciri can see his face properly. His hair hangs lank around his face; stubble covers his chin, a little too long to be stylish; his eyes above are a bright shining blue. And yet there’s something faded about him, his clothes just slightly worse for wear, his cheeks hollow.

    “Jaskier,” Geralt says, almost desperately.

    After the mountain, a reunion. It doesn’t go that well, to begin with.

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    “I’m sorry,” Jaskier whispers at last. Geralt shifts so he can look at him. “I’m sorry I’m…like this, now.”

    “You don’t have to be sorry.”

    (Jaskier has a hard path to walk while he's healing. Geralt and Yennefer help him with this part.)

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    The first time it happened, Geralt was alone. Not alone as he once had been. Not alone because he chose to be alone. Alone, because he drove them away. No one would have a man who used ill-gotten wishes and spewed nothing but poisonous barbs from their mouth when you tried to comfort him. Alone, in a tub of water to scald the ache from his muscles, he wondered why it did little to relieve the pain. Why still he ached. Why it coalesced around his lungs like a thorn bush.

    And then the coughing started.

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    Geralt’s shoulders were stiff, and his grip on Jaskier’s wrist was like a vise. Between them, the bite mark on Jaskier’s forearm still oozed blood. Just a tiny little puncture. He’d gotten worse from stepping on a sharp rock in camp just last week. The dead fox lay three paces off, its head facing away. From this angle Jaskier couldn’t see whether or not he’d imagined the foam at its mouth.

    Geralt still wouldn’t look at him.

    “Don’t say it,” Jaskier begged one last time.

    “It was rabid,” said Geralt flatly.

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    At long last, Jaskier's luck runs out, and he acquires a mortal wound. It's lucky for him, then, that Geralt is far too selfish to let him die.

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    "Did you really leave him on that mountain?" Yennefer asks.

    Geralt shifts uncomfortably. There's much he regrets about that day. "It was not my finest hour."

    Yennefer smiles without any humor. "No. No it was not."

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