Fear is an illness. If you catch it and leave it untreated, it can consume you.
How do you treat it?
You face it. Facing your fear is not easy. But I am here for you. I won't let anything happen to you.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Are you a monster?
VVereena
Are you a monster because you are different?
Monsters do bad things to people.
VVereena
Humans do bad things to everybody.
FFrancesca
(In Elder) You should have hung their corpses nearby.
(In Elder) They can be of use, these are human forests.
FFrancesca
(In Elder) They're our forests. This one was in dimeritium?
This one was a captive of Nilfgaard. I'm also an elf. (In Elder) Is this how you treat your own?
FFrancesca
Do you sing our songs? Do you honor our elders? Have you ever shed a tear over anything elven? You are no elf.
My people turned to Francesca after I failed to beat Calanthe, they needed faith.
Faith's a simple medicine for desperate souls.
FFringilla
Faith sustains us all in dark times.
LLambert
So there I am, freezing my bollocks off in the middle of a grain field for the second straight night, when the farmer's wife comes sneaking out to tell me that I'm wasting my time. It wasn't a mora her husband saw leaving that room, no. It was the fucking field hand! (Entire room laughs) Oh and now she's wailing, "Oh, what are we gonna do? My husband won't pay you if you don't deliver a mora head!" (Laughing) So I pulled out my sword and I said, "Bet he'll pay double for the field hand's". (Entire room laughs)
CCoen
Good ol' Lambchop!
LLambert
She returned with two horses and a fur rug, best job I had in all year.
Training is dangerous.
So is the man with the black winged helmet.
(Pauses) And you want to kill him?
Yes.
Why?
I hate him.
This is important. We don't kill out of fear. We kill to save lives. Do you understand?
When I first came to Kaer Morhen, Vesemir said to me that the world outside these walls is a dangerous place. But times are changing, even here. Nowhere's safe now, you can't run from the world, you can't hide from it. But you can find power and purpose. A chance to survive the horror. This continent was meant for no one. All you have to do Ciri, is keep your sword close and keep moving.
Bard.
Witch. What are you doing here? And what fresh hell did you just crawl out of?
A sewer. What's your excuse?
Oh a sewer, I always knew you were a bloodsucking, joyless- (Yennifer hugs him) Hugger? Hugging, we are hugging.
I miss the days when my biggest problem was an ever-present, sing-songy twit.
You're the Sandpiper.
What? No. Yes. No. How do you know that name?
You pick up a thing or two when you're in hiding.
You're in hiding? Because you're part elf... Yennefer, I completely forgot. I'm so sorry. I would not wish that fate on my worst enemy, and yes, you are firmly lodged in that category, it has to be said, but what they've done to you and your people is unspeakable. But some people are speaking. There are anonymous benefactors behind the scenes, helping me, helping us, helping us to make this right.
Why help? What's in it for you?
I was at the great oak Bleobheris when it was raided. The Seat of Friendship, the druids called it. Where every free thinker was welcome, no matter their race, their creed... they'll come for the elves, Yennefer, they'll come for the Dwarves. And sooner or later, they will come for everyone. Anyone that they deem the "other", so eventually, no artist is safe.
(After Cahir walks in) He's with me, it's okay. I need to get to Cintra. The both of us.
Well, I'll do what I can. But know this. You, you both... smell truly awful. I mean, it is like something has crawled up your arses and died. So... we leave Oxenfurt at nightfall. Plenty of time to take a bath before then. Just sayin'.
What? (Jaskier gives a look) What?
What happened to you?
You'll have to be more specific, I've lived a long life. (Jaskier raises eyebrows and looks again) (sighing) Chaos appears to be done with me.
You've lost your magic? Is that even possible?
Go on, get your gloating in. Time's limited.
(laughing) You know, once upon a time, I would have used this opportunity to call you an empty, lonely, power hungry she-demon. But... I'm an artist, Yennifer. It's my job to put myself in other peoples' shoes. Even if they are, in your case, large, clunky, and I don't know, probably full of snakes or something. I'm scared too. I'm scared that one day, the muses will stop speaking to me. Because who are we? When we can no longer do the one thing we were put on this Continent to do?
We find a new purpose. A better one. Hopefully.
RRience
(Snaps finger and his finger is alight) See, fire is a forbidden source because it usually consumes those who draw from it. Unless you're very talented, then the body can withstand it. But it consumes the soul (Laughing)
Please, I don't know anything!
RRience
No, no, no, no, the songs in your catalog would suggest otherwise.
(Screaming) Listen to me, please! Please listen to me. I- I am a bard, I am brilliant. This is what I do, he grunts and I tell stories, he mentions a Witcher keep and I turn it into a magical, mystical hideaway in the mountains. So please listen when I tell you this. He doesn't share any details. He does not have friends. And he does not have weaknesses!
Who the fuck was that?
How should I know? You're the one he kidnapped.
Oh what, you mages don't all share an alma mater? You didn't catch him at the last alumni event?
You know, I was looking forward to at least a few more thank yous and perhaps some genuflection.
He's after Geralt.
What? Why? What does he want with him?
Oh you know, I assumed it was to drink tea and eat crumpets and wax nostalgia over old times. I don't know Yennifer, so why don't you conjure up a portal or do your mind talking and warn him? You owe him that.
I owe him as much as he owes me, nothing more, nothing less. Anyway, I can't. No magic, remember? (sighing) Fuck!
You don't get to play the damsel in distress. That's my job.
TTriss
(Walks in Ciri's room) What are you doing? I know you know how dangerous this is.
I'm not afraid.
TTriss
Have you thought about Geralt? What he'd say? Why do you want this so badly Ciri?
Because I'm sick of feeling lost. Everything I was told my whole life was a lie. And the people I love most in this world were taken from me before I could find the truth.
TTriss
What you're doing won't change any of that.
But it might help me find a new truth.
What are you doing?
Geralt.
VVesemir
She's meant to be. To rebuild us.
She is not. She's a girl, all you'll do is poison her.
VVesemir
She can do this.
I made him do it, Geralt. (Geralt unchains Ciri) Stop, I wanted him to try. Geralt, stop!
Did you not think of the consequences? What if you were killed?
Stop. Stop! All I ever think about are consequences. No matter how hard I train, no matter what I do, it'll never be enough.
You are already enough, Cirilla. You are extraordinary.
I want to be like you, Geralt. I want to be indifferent to the past, to the lies, to the things I've done. Please. Let me have that.
That is not how it works. Neither you nor I can just forget who we are. We can't kill our feelings. Our best chance, is to kill the hatred that we may hold onto and move on.
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