He didn’t mind those years where he got entangled in all sorts of goings on, with so many different people. These things happen – he also became older, finally really distanced himself from politics, returned to his private, routine-like living on the path from before that he actually liked. Sure his life became less… hectic in the last fourty years or so. He hasn’t been for a long time (and ’long’ for a witcher was very different to what the average mortal thought of in regards of the same word). Not that Geralt thought about himself as a particularly lonely witcher. A sensation at the back of his head, of the loneliness stretching its limbs even farther where isolation ruled regardless. ![]() Especially since he also came across less and less witchers who shared the path with him, so he could ask them this phenomenon was something he was already used to, but this was new once, too. And also silence in a way that he started seeing less and less werewolf contracts on the noticeboards, realized he didn’t need to be wary of ghouls when he passed a still nauseating battlefield, and maybe also that regular wolf-packs became rarer too, but he might’ve just imagined that.Ĭoming down to this: so used to the idea that extinction can only happen to witchers, he never really considered it might happen the other way around. Not the silence of a forest when the Leshy was near, but just… peaceful silence. At first he noticed how silent everything was. It just happened like any other hunt, and Geralt couldn’t even tell what happened to the trophy.Īnd so these non-events contiued to happen nearing the end of his time on the trail (something he didn’t register either). In that, he couldn’t remember, but he also hadn’t know at the moment he did it: there wasn’t a looming sense of finality or the ingrained knowledge that this was the Last Living Specimen. ![]() Geralt didn’t know when he slayed the last selkiemore.
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