[ He nods. If either of them need looking after when they've made it back, Ciri knows Nadine will be able to do so. And Jaskier will tell him if there's anything else. Or otherwise send him another panicked message. He hardly blames his friend, but. Not exactly the words he wanted to see scrawled across the rocky desert ground. He'd paused his journey with Sam for those hours it took to hear from Ciri again—waited to see if he needed to turn around or not.
Those had been immeasurably long hours. ]
Near the end of the month. [ Home. He catches her eyes. Yeah. It is home. A place he returns to, where he knows people will be waiting for him. ] We'll talk more then. Jaskier tells me he has your horse and pack.
[ Not the best situation, but not the worst. Ciri is unharmed. So is Viktor. She has a way home. He won't relax until she actually is in Cadens, but it's a start. That's always the contradiction, isn't it? That even when he trusts her capabilities, he still worries deep in the back of his mind. Maybe that's simply how it goes. ]
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Those had been immeasurably long hours. ]
Near the end of the month. [ Home. He catches her eyes. Yeah. It is home. A place he returns to, where he knows people will be waiting for him. ] We'll talk more then. Jaskier tells me he has your horse and pack.
[ Not the best situation, but not the worst. Ciri is unharmed. So is Viktor. She has a way home. He won't relax until she actually is in Cadens, but it's a start. That's always the contradiction, isn't it? That even when he trusts her capabilities, he still worries deep in the back of his mind. Maybe that's simply how it goes. ]