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Geralt is always reachable by the network. Unless it's an emergency, expect not to hear back for a few hours, if not a few days.

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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[gynvael]

[ Seems he hit a mark. Geralt studies her with the same steady consideration he gives most folk. ]

Mm. Lucifer told me tale.

[ About the Darkness, about the Mark. Like much of what he learns, Geralt has quietly committed the information to memory whether it currently serves him or not. Besides, he's gathered the others—Dean, Sam, even Castiel—see Lucifer as a particular force. Something rooted in the scripture they grew up on, he supposes. To Geralt, removed from it all as he is, Lucifer is simply a prince graced with too much power and twice the ambition.

Princes are princes are princes. It's all the same horseshit. And he can easily believe that Lucifer is at his most dangerous when he fears another. ]

He left you out, though.

[ That's interesting. Perhaps not surprising . ]

[magike]

Of course he did.

( though she says it without feeling, not offended nor glad, almost expecting that to have been true. why would lucifer want to talk about the witch that could ruin him?

she pauses in thought for a moment before picking her glass back up and leaning back more comfortably again. if she's going to tell this story she wants all of the comfort )

I became involved with Lucifer... foolishly and unintentionally. Despite being trapped in his Cage he still had ways of getting to people. The boys needed his help with Amara, he knew it, they'd sought my help in getting into his cage without opening it and... he offered me something tempting.

( as he did. there are always details left out, she's cliffnotesing the story but it's all truthful so far. it wouldn't serve her now when she needs protection if she doesn't admit how it happened, and rowena knows that she was blinded a little by the power that lucifer offered her then. she'd seen that when he'd betrayed her )

I opened his cage and that is when he killed me first, expecting the knowledge of how to return him to it to die with me. ( since she'd admitted that she was the only witch who could do so, trying to continually prove her usefulness with a boast of how powerful she was when only that statement had damned her ) That wasn't my true death, I healed from it and... sought to stay very far away from him now he was free. Except my son and the boys wanted him back in the Cage.

( she leaves out more details now, jumping very far in the story )

When Lucifer killed me the second time it was in anticipation of just that. And though he tried to ensure I stayed dead this time... ( she shrugs slightly. didn't stick, lucille. the memories and nightmares may have but not her death )

Whilst I would love to send him back to the Cage I'd rather he was dead, though I'm not looking to try doing that. ( especially not at her full power. she's working on strengthening herself again but she also fears lucifer too much to actually act against him ) Not that he cares. The knowledge I have is enough for him.

[gynvael]

[ Rowena's omission does not go unnoticed. What did Lucifer offer her? It's curious. When he agreed to speak to Lucifer about Dean and the Mark, there was no offer, and he knows—from the way the others reacted after he returned with the information—that they expected there to be more to it. Lucifer, playing games. But at the time, Geralt doesn't think Lucifer was. At least, not with him. Not then.

Regardless, it seems Dean had asked her to reach the cage while keeping it locked and after Lucifer tempted her with a something, she had opened it anyhow.

Now why does that sound familiar? ]

You betrayed them. [ It's not an accusation. Just an observation. Clearly, Dean trusts her now—so whatever it is she may have done, they must've mended their relationship. He supposes he understands. He and Yen have done their share of mending.

Geralt leans forward, refilling his glass—and hers, if she wishes. ]

I agreed to help Dean because he's a friend. [ And because he's no lost love for Lucifer. ] But— [ he glances up, meeting her gaze ] I like my quiet. So try not to complicate matters.

[magike]

Complications are the last thing that I want.

( even if her entire presence here already complicates the truce that dean had. but she wasn't looking to do anything other than exist. she wanted to stay far away from that devil. permanently )

Before I truly died, outside of the help that I gave to the boys I stayed out of supernatural matters.

( which is funny when she's a witch but she was a witch alone: no coven, just her own practice. her magic was for her, for the knowledge that she could find... and share with sam. she'd known long before she died that everything would be left to him, she just didn't expect it to be so soon )

That I want to keep. Quiet and simple.

( solvunn is also a complication in that for her but that's her problem )

🎀 wrap soon?

[gynvael]

[ That is an ironic remark given that he is quite sure Dean would consider her very existence a supernatural matter.

He likes her well enough. Perhaps mages are simply a familiar breed to him—more so than angels. No doubt, there's plenty of details she's omitted but he's in no hurry to fill in the missing pieces. ]

Good.

[ With luck, the lack of complications will hold for at least a week or two before some force or other invariably fucks with them. ]