[ Geralt regrets mentioning it as soon as it's out of his mouth. Maybe Lambert doesn't need to have his decision to stay behind rubbed in. So he moves on quickly-- ] Huh? After all the fucking peer pressure to be Bonded and happy? Wonderful. I'm sure that has nothing to do with abrupt contact with a city running on subjugation instead of balance.
[ Geralt's hunch isn't incorrect; as soon as he says as much, Lambert's frowning, but the only thing that saves Geralt from more bitching (are you trying to make me feel bad?) is the bizarreness of the scenario he's describing. ]
The sky's blacked out. Hard to tell the difference between night and day, visually.
[ A witcher's internal clock is too sharp to leave Geralt disoriented, needing it for precision with meditation, and all that shit, but it's still pretty weird. ]
Doubt it's about alleviating any negative symptoms. Monsters rampaging would put a dent in their chokehold control.
I don't know. I've been preoccupied. It's probably enchanted, the whole city in some fucking bubble, everything compounded with the compulsion and memory erasure.
[ Geralt has been very busy and most people seem to be focusing on research and freeing monsters - all good efforts. But there's just a lot going on. ]
Disrupting the auctions, mostly. And I've been trying to learn about the enchantments in the wall - it's where the compulsion one is housed. Been out to it a couple times.
Just don't know enough about magic. Yen'd have it unraveled already.
[ There's just silence on the line - Geralt doesn't know what to say to that, besides something really mean, and he's too tired for it. Sure, Lambert. There's slave auctions going on next door, but let's be a dick about Geralt's girlfriend instead. ]
[ Assuming she's even Geralt's girlfriend right now. They're so off again, on again, it's impossible to keep track ... but if he's too tired to even be on autopilot snarling back? Guess they really must be working him hard.
Regardless, the silence doesn't much worry Lambert, who fills conversational gaps with being a dick the same way some people make affirming noises, so he's going to keep on keeping on. ]
Then again, maybe she wouldn't be so keen on signing up for this Coven shit in the first place. Too much like the Lodge. Did you know, the witches here actually took down a king a few hundred years ago? Hard to believe, with how they're so big on playing nice now.
Doesn't matter. Geralt doesn't hold a grudge about the fact that none of them told him about her when he had amnesia. He just also probably won't ever forget about it. ]
People are killed all the time. Kings are just people.
[ I sound like Letho, he thinks. ]
Might want to keep yourself appraised of anti-bond sentiment. I have a feeling the practice of them is what keeps things on an even keel. If people are really riled up against them it could be a precursor to wanting to put monsters in chains.
Sure, but if they're still talking about him after all this time, he must have made an impression. Sounds like he was all for keeping monsters in chains -- wouldn't be surprised if they tell different stories over there.
[ Anyway, thtis sounds suspiciously like Geralt's telling him to do work, but-- ]
I'll see what I can find out. [ Read: might shake down a few people for answers, but if Geralt has problems with his methods, well... he should have put that idea into someone nicer's head. ]
[ If Lambert can't figure out that looking into all this is good for his own continued survival, then Geralt can't help him. He knows better than to try and shake sense into him, by now. His not his parent.
[ There's that urge to be contrary that rises in him every time someone else tells him to do something, even if he was planning on doing it anyway. He's never been one naturally inclined to follow orders, but he figures he could never even begin to explain why to Geralt, who takes whatever comes his way with that same stoicism, mimics Vesemir's disappointment and paternalism better than he'll ever probably realize.
(Not that he realizes they come from different histories yet. Not that he remembers a Geralt that didn't yank back on his chain when it came time to make Jad Karadin pay in blood.)
Just swallow your resentment and learn to suck it all up like every other good little witcher. That's what they're made for, isn't it? ]
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There's no full moon, here.
[ Geralt regrets mentioning it as soon as it's out of his mouth. Maybe Lambert doesn't need to have his decision to stay behind rubbed in. So he moves on quickly-- ] Huh? After all the fucking peer pressure to be Bonded and happy? Wonderful. I'm sure that has nothing to do with abrupt contact with a city running on subjugation instead of balance.
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No moon? How the fuck does that work?
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[ A witcher's internal clock is too sharp to leave Geralt disoriented, needing it for precision with meditation, and all that shit, but it's still pretty weird. ]
Doubt it's about alleviating any negative symptoms. Monsters rampaging would put a dent in their chokehold control.
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[ It's not the case for the mirrorbound, he knows that much by now -- the full moon bringing discomfort and all that. ]
Can't be as easy as just turning off the lights. Otherwise monsters would just be able to dig a hole in the ground and hide until the moon's gone.
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[ Geralt has been very busy and most people seem to be focusing on research and freeing monsters - all good efforts. But there's just a lot going on. ]
The witches seem plenty powerful as it is.
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Just don't know enough about magic. Yen'd have it unraveled already.
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Would she, though? [ Not that he's ever really met Yen, but enough drunken stories paints a slightly skewed picture of who she is. ]
She'd have to be interested in helping, first.
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Regardless, the silence doesn't much worry Lambert, who fills conversational gaps with being a dick the same way some people make affirming noises, so he's going to keep on keeping on. ]
Then again, maybe she wouldn't be so keen on signing up for this Coven shit in the first place. Too much like the Lodge. Did you know, the witches here actually took down a king a few hundred years ago? Hard to believe, with how they're so big on playing nice now.
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Doesn't matter. Geralt doesn't hold a grudge about the fact that none of them told him about her when he had amnesia. He just also probably won't ever forget about it. ]
People are killed all the time. Kings are just people.
[ I sound like Letho, he thinks. ]
Might want to keep yourself appraised of anti-bond sentiment. I have a feeling the practice of them is what keeps things on an even keel. If people are really riled up against them it could be a precursor to wanting to put monsters in chains.
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[ Anyway, thtis sounds suspiciously like Geralt's telling him to do work, but-- ]
I'll see what I can find out. [ Read: might shake down a few people for answers, but if Geralt has problems with his methods, well... he should have put that idea into someone nicer's head. ]
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(Or Vesemir.) ]
See you later.
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(Not that he realizes they come from different histories yet. Not that he remembers a Geralt that didn't yank back on his chain when it came time to make Jad Karadin pay in blood.)
Just swallow your resentment and learn to suck it all up like every other good little witcher. That's what they're made for, isn't it? ]
Sure, whenever 'later' is.