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  1. Public Bookmark 4

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    “You said you wouldn’t let me die,” hissed the wraith with Jaskier’s face, its cold fingers closing around Geralt’s throat. “You promised!”

    Geralt’s eyes snapped open. The night was quiet and still, with not even the slightest hint of wind to stir the leaves on the trees. His medallion was likewise still, but it lay beside his ear on the bedroll instead of on his chest, and the section of chain across his neck was chilly instead of skin-warm. He must have moved while he was dreaming and dislodged it.

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    Jaskier survived an ordeal that ought to have killed him, and seems to have come out the other end no worse for wear. So it would be silly for Geralt to still be having nightmares. Ridiculous, even. It would be the absolute height of foolishness to go days without sleeping when everything is fine.

    Because everything is fine.

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    13 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 7

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    After a close brush with death, Jaskier finds himself altered in subtle ways. If anyone can help figure out the long-term effects of his ordeal, it's Yennefer of Vengerberg—but involving Yennefer means inviting complications, especially when it turns out Geralt's been keeping a rather important secret.

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    Or: With Geralt temporarily absent, Jaskier and Yennefer plumb each other's hidden depths.

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    12 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 71

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    Geralt’s shoulders were stiff, and his grip on Jaskier’s wrist was like a vise. Between them, the bite mark on Jaskier’s forearm still oozed blood. Just a tiny little puncture. He’d gotten worse from stepping on a sharp rock in camp just last week. The dead fox lay three paces off, its head facing away. From this angle Jaskier couldn’t see whether or not he’d imagined the foam at its mouth.

    Geralt still wouldn’t look at him.

    “Don’t say it,” Jaskier begged one last time.

    “It was rabid,” said Geralt flatly.

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    At long last, Jaskier's luck runs out, and he acquires a mortal wound. It's lucky for him, then, that Geralt is far too selfish to let him die.

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    12 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 79

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    Jaskier adjusted the lute on his back, the city of Cintra on the horizon. He had not met any friends on his travels to the city, but then again, he hadn’t expected to do so. He was with several other bards, all responding to the call Cintra had made for bards to make a song cycle about Queen Cirilla’s reign. Even with his hasty exit from Redania, he managed to send a letter to a friend who he hoped would be a friendly face in the city, though they had not parted well.

    The young queen was shrouded in mystery with a bit of infamy. Everyone knew that she was claimed by the Law of Surprise by the Butcher of Blaviken. The deranged witcher brought some of his witcher friends when Nilfgaard tried to conquer Cintra. Though Cirilla was only twelve at the time, her powers combined with the witchers were able to keep Cintra from the edge of defeat, though her grandmother still lost her life in the process. At the age of twelve, she was put on the throne, despite not being of age.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    or: how to have to cry when you're stuck on the road with a witcher

    OR: three times Jask tries to hide his tears and one time he doesn't bother


    But mostly, he just draws his knees up to his chest and stays there, and sits in the water and quietly cries.

    Geralt’s going to notice, anyway. He always does.

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    11 Jun 2026

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