[ Unfortunately for Geralt, it isn't just an idea. It's reality. And while Julie wouldn't say that it has thoughts and feelings in the same way a human does, there's no other words she knows to describe them.

He raises his arm and she tucks herself under it, tangling her legs with his. One of her arms drapes over his waist, and with the other, folded underneath herself, she absently clutches the tooth, running her thumb over the carved symbols. ]

I will. I don't know when she can do it. She said she has to create a spell.

[ It actually won't be the first time Wanda enters Julie's mind -- she'd been there for a memory, had reached in and gently shifted things after, just enough to keep Julie from having some kind of full-blown psychological break while stuck in the Horizon. But Julie gets the impression that when Wanda goes deep into people's heads, it's generally not a process designed to keep them safe.

Sighing, Julie closes her eyes for a moment. She can feel his heartbeat through his skin, against her cheek. Slow but steady. It joins the noise in her head, but as an undercurrent that makes her feel less adrift in the racket. ]

Just... if I'm not all right, just promise you'll keep Nadine safe.