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  1. Public Bookmark 72

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    He’s halfway past the tavern when he realises that he’s still got Stede’s book wedged under his arm. Now’s the time. He can throw it away now. Set it on fire, throw it into one of those braziers they’ve got, burning through a midden of shells and ropes and bits of old tar. But he burns with a need to know what it says, and yet there is no one to read it.
     

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    In which Ed finds someone to read him Stede's journal after he's gone, and ends up devastated as a result.

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    29 Jun 2022

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    In books and songs, there are always clues that warn the audience that a great tragedy is about to occur. A spot of blood against the clean floor. A broken window, perhaps, or a darkened home. Their hearts would race with anticipation only to gasps as the true horror unfolded.

    For Jaskier, the tragedy looked like this:

    Two bodies moving awkwardly off the tumbled bedspread.

    Dark hair tumbling over shoulders bared by a shirt that was far too large for a woman’s body.

    Familiar scars left behind by a life of war joined now by a deep bruise along one collarbone in the shape of a mouth.

    Yellow eyes meeting his with agony marring their depths—too much emotion to belong to the man responsible for the way Jaskier’s chest seemed collapse around the shards of his broken heart.

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    22 Dec 2020

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    Jaskier is not a very good replacement for Yennefer, but he tries his best.

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    21 Jul 2020

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    Falling in love with his roommate is, objectively, a bad idea—but most of the major decisions of Jaskier's life have been bad ideas, and they've gotten him this far.

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    07 Jul 2020

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    People didn’t like to touch Geralt unless it was for a purpose. To hand him coin so he could deal with a couple of pesky monsters, to try and best him in a fight, or to lay with him for a night after they’ve been paid. People didn’t like touching Geralt, but Jaskier isn’t people.

    Jaskier touches him all the time, when he’s drunk and trying to regain his balance, when he’s tired and needs someone to lean on, when he needs Geralt’s attention he will press his fingertips to Geralt’s elbow. And Geralt? He finds himself fixating on those fingertips.

    Yennefer has warned him, told him that his control wasn’t as good as he thought it was, but as Jaskier stares at him, wide eyed and open mouthed Geralt can only hide his head in shame and blame the summer heat.

    For all the times Jaskier might have touched him, this is the first time Geralt reciprocated.

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    07 Jul 2020