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    A century before Blaviken, before sorceresses and bards and Child Surprises, a child soldier leaves Kaer Morhen with dreams of becoming a hero. In some versions of things, those dreams are smothered, pulled under by all hatred and fear the world has to offer. This is not that story.

    For sometimes, a tavern in Posada hosts its guests a few decades early. Sometimes, an older professor wanting to see something new in the world stumbles across a boy who has not yet been beaten down by it. Sometimes, their lives become intertwined, and a boy grows up knowing love where previously there had been none.

    After a winter apart, Geralt and Jaskier reunite for their second year together on the Path.
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    A continuation of The Opposite of Love's Indifference, an AU where Geralt meets Jaskier much, much earlier than before. He's only been on the Path for a few months, and Jaskier is a professor who never quite made it as a traveling bard. Please read that first!

    On indefinite hiatus :(

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