Geralt grunts an affirmative to that. He can't argue with her priorities in that case. Really, it might be character growth for Yennefer to think about rescuing someone else like that.
To be fair, she's saved people before him...or tried at least, but by the time she knew him she was pretty disillusioned, to say the very least. But she does have a heart, much as she tries to ignore it for the sake of self-preservation.
"No. But martyrs never want to be saved."
Says the woman who tried to sacrifice herself in the fight in Sodden....and will again in the future.....
"There may be a bias there. The ones who are saved don't end up martyrs." Not that the saving is always successful. There are times that they all fail. The heroes and the martyrs and all would-be saviors.
Geralt isn't one to appreciate the glamour of the tragedy.
"Speaking from experience? Stopped a few martyrs in your time?"
She doesn't have to ask to know he's at least tried. But trying and succeeding are two very different things, something people as old as them are well aware of.
And she knows Tech's reasons. To save her. And his other friend. He can't die. In stories Gods sacrifice for the sake of their people but stories are full of shit and she's pretty sure if any gods exist in their world, and she doubts they do, they're assholes just like everyone else.
"And if it were your friend who was choosing to be tortured for a month, partly for your sake, you would simply respect that choice?"
Somehow, she doesn't think so. For all of his talk of the Path and the bard's songs about giving him coin she knows coin is not always the main motivation for Geralt. He may seem like another asshole, and sometimes he is, but he also has the capacity to give a shit where most other people wouldn't. Like with her.
"I didn't say I would," Geralt points out levelly. Then, after a pause and a subdued sigh, he adds, "Or that you should. I know you wouldn't listen to me telling you what to do regardless."
The last part is a particular mixture of fond and long suffering.
Which transitions naturally into, "But I do have some experience saving people who don't want to be saved. I can't say I regret doing it, but it can have its consequences."
"It's one of the things you like about me." A beat. "Most of the time." He probably doesn't appreciate her stubbornness to do what she wants right in this moment.
"Well I have to be able to do something. I'll find something."
Tech said she didn't own him but she feels the weight of debt around her neck all the same.
And then after another beat:
"Like entwining your destiny with a witch who doesn't listen to you?"
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"As much as I do like to take the dramatic option... I may be spent as far as acting drastically goes."
She's spent months scheming and planning and researching and it still blew up in her face in the end. She's tired. She wants to help Tech but she's also exhausted.
"So that's one less thing for you to worry about, at least."
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She has grown some without him, hasn't she?
"Do you think that's what he'd want?"
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To be fair, she's saved people before him...or tried at least, but by the time she knew him she was pretty disillusioned, to say the very least. But she does have a heart, much as she tries to ignore it for the sake of self-preservation.
"No. But martyrs never want to be saved."
Says the woman who tried to sacrifice herself in the fight in Sodden....and will again in the future.....
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Geralt isn't one to appreciate the glamour of the tragedy.
"But he did make his choice for his own reasons."
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"Speaking from experience? Stopped a few martyrs in your time?"
She doesn't have to ask to know he's at least tried. But trying and succeeding are two very different things, something people as old as them are well aware of.
And she knows Tech's reasons. To save her. And his other friend. He can't die. In stories Gods sacrifice for the sake of their people but stories are full of shit and she's pretty sure if any gods exist in their world, and she doubts they do, they're assholes just like everyone else.
"And if it were your friend who was choosing to be tortured for a month, partly for your sake, you would simply respect that choice?"
Somehow, she doesn't think so. For all of his talk of the Path and the bard's songs about giving him coin she knows coin is not always the main motivation for Geralt. He may seem like another asshole, and sometimes he is, but he also has the capacity to give a shit where most other people wouldn't. Like with her.
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The last part is a particular mixture of fond and long suffering.
Which transitions naturally into, "But I do have some experience saving people who don't want to be saved. I can't say I regret doing it, but it can have its consequences."
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"It's one of the things you like about me." A beat. "Most of the time." He probably doesn't appreciate her stubbornness to do what she wants right in this moment.
"Well I have to be able to do something. I'll find something."
Tech said she didn't own him but she feels the weight of debt around her neck all the same.
And then after another beat:
"Like entwining your destiny with a witch who doesn't listen to you?"
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Or at least, he was willing to let it go without saying.
But if Yennfer wants to acknowledge it, he won't pretend otherwise.
"Something to consider before you do anything drastic."
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"As much as I do like to take the dramatic option... I may be spent as far as acting drastically goes."
She's spent months scheming and planning and researching and it still blew up in her face in the end. She's tired. She wants to help Tech but she's also exhausted.
"So that's one less thing for you to worry about, at least."