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To talk to him in person, you'll need to be in Cadens or go to his domain, a snowy mountain fortress. Yard is open; doors are locked. If he isn't around, leave a delivery with the white wolf.
To talk to him in person, you'll need to be in Cadens or go to his domain, a snowy mountain fortress. Yard is open; doors are locked. If he isn't around, leave a delivery with the white wolf.
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I found something, too.
In the Horizon.
The offering from the Heralds.
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The moth in the rose.
I think perhaps
we're more connected to them
than we want to believe.
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Stories say the Singularity birthed their gods.
A few have theorized that we, too, could be considered...
birthed from the Singularity.
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Though I expect the hubris of men
Answers most conundrums.
I don't know what I believe.
The reality may not matter.
People have a habit of acting on anything but.
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feels little more than fairytale.
[ He isn't ruling anything out—but it's difficult not to take the idea with a grain of salt. The Summoned are obviously different. Unaffected by the Dimming. Capable of entering planes the natives cannot. Over centuries, who's to say the stories haven't grown?
But past that— ]
I'm less concerned about the supposed gods
Than the people who brought us here to use us.
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Geralt believes a misstep has been made somewhere, in the sense that Thorne could not have foreseen the other territories performing the spell, too—but the fact that they can, season by season without fail, suggests relatively common access to powerful magic the likes of which he's not seen before. Except from Ciri. Here, everything feels different. Even the fact that they once suppressed his mutations gives him pause.
Sam might see the gods as the true danger, but Geralt can't help thinking that this status, if or when turned on them, will only spell danger for them. It's happened before. A roiling fear that spurs nothing but bloodshed.
He suddenly finds himself uncertain how to respond, and so he answers a simpler point first. ]
No.
The timing is inconsistent.
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Sam—
I don't know what the kingdoms or the gods are plotting.
Or what they're capable of.
All I know is, when the world last feared a people had grown too dangerous to control,
None of us were spared.
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geralt's quick response, though, does wonders to calm down whatever anxiety might have been building. no, geralt is right. the timing is off.
but it's the second response that gets sam's attention - the kind of sensation that geralt is talking about something more, something else, but also this. and while just about every part of geralt's message to him is something he could probably worry about, there is a kind of stillness that comes over him at the us.
none of us were spared
sam thinks he knows just what geralt is getting at, with that. ]
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It isn't only about his past. He's only had one experience where someone demonstrated signs of what one could call godlike abilities. And that someone is his daughter.
There's a pause, as though Geralt has said something he didn't quite mean to say. A fear he didn't intend to voice. But he did. Maybe because it's Sam, who often seems to. Do that. Still, it feels...not foolish, but too much like he's granting credence to the unknown.
His withdrawal from the conversation may not come as a surprise to Sam. ]
I know.
I'll speak to you when I return.
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either way, it explains some things, doesn't touch on another, and sam feels - no, he knows. his instincts haven't been wrong yet about this - that something bigger, something worse, is on the horizon for them all.
and no, geralt's withdrawal is not a surprise. an end to the conversation is not a surprise. but sam knows he's going to be thinking about this for some time. ]
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[ Of course he will. ]