( OPEN ) february catch-all

[gynvael]

Who: Geralt + Jaskier; Yennefer; You
When: February // Feoveuer
Where: Aefenglom
What: A rescue. Not quite from who you'd expect. + other things as they come.
Warnings: Violence, CW related to the current event.

[ starters in comments. plot with me at discontinued! ]

OPEN: post-kidnapping

CLOSED: Jaskier | Yennefer | Jaskier pt. ii | yennefer + myr

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[gynvael]

[ Ah. His eyebrow lifts. ] You were knighted.

[ Rare, for a woman—though at the same time, he can't be too surprised, from what he's learned of her. He wonders what it's like, to go from one world fallen to an infection that gives birth to beasts to yet another that does the same.

He turns the glass in his hands. ]

Every time a plague or a beast tears through the Continent, kingdoms seal off entire villages and leave them to rot. [ He tips back his drink. ] Eventually, it eats through the nobility, too.

[whomthebelltolls]

Yes. Hunters in Cainhurst were Knights. After I left, I was back to being merely a Hunter.

[She swirls her glass again, then takes another deep drink. When she puts it back down, she has a bit of a pensive look on her face.] I suppose it both was and wasn't like that. Cainhurst blood didn't frequently create Beasts; it was the low-quality, diluted stuff from the Church that was most dangerous.

But it wouldn't have mattered.

[gynvael]

Different than our knights, then.

[ No. It doesn't ever matter. There's a reason he tends not to look back. Cities fall; they rise again, one way or another. And humans will always be around in some form. ]

The corruption on this sphere. Are there similarities?

[ It's not his job to solve the Cwyld, beyond what related contracts are posted for assistance -- it'll still be here, he thinks, long after he's gone -- but he's been curious enough to keep an eye on what people know. ]

[whomthebelltolls]

Mmm... yes. Beasthood does not kill a person that becomes a Beast, but they're never able to return to their previous life. So in many ways, they become like a Shade - aggressive, unable to think of anything but attacking and killing, unrecognizable from the person they used to be. The Cwyld is a bit more... obvious of a source of corruption than what happened back at home, though. I was going to say 'they don't worship the Cwyld here like they do the Blood at home', but apparently that was a lie for a small group of people.

[She huffs, and it's derisive - clearly she doesn't approve of doing something like that either way.]

[gynvael]

[ He considers her words for a moment, though she distracts him soon enough with another topic. There's an equally derisive snort in return. In a way, he's almost surprised it took that long for something like the Circle to emerge -- a mixture of those wanting to harness the Cwyld's power and a thirst to learn of it at all costs.

He doesn't give a fuck what people worship. But they could've left everyone else out of their bullshit. ]

We'll see how long they stay down this time.

[ Most have been captured or killed, but ideals are not so easily swept away. Especially not with the head of the cult still out there. ]