[ "A loss" is not the first term that comes to people's minds when describing the absence of his current personality. Geralt makes a noise that suggests being told so is a new experience. ]

I dealt with it in the past. Rather not do it a second time.

[ Well. It's what he believes, in any case; the reality is Geralt has not, in fact, dealt with a single damn thing that's happened to him since childhood and onward. He's only buried it, and maybe that's why this whole thing digging into old wounds feels so fresh. ]

Is that what you eventually did? Sit and talk it out? Or is it just what you wished you'd done?

[ Advice granted from a place of personal regret is not something Geralt is unfamiliar with. ]