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    Heir Apparent Julian is sent as a hostage to Kaer Morhen for a year to prove the royal family's good faith. No one was naïve, they knew what that meant. Daily servitude, humiliation, and night duties.

    "It doesn't matter," his father had said when one of his closest advisors expressed concern about the possible consequences. "Witchers are sterile, they won't make him any bastards. It's only a year and he's still young, he'll still be fertile when he comes back."

    Julian, whose secret pen name was Jaskier, was not at all reassured by this.

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    There was no madness in the eyes looking out from behind lank white hair, close enough he could reach out and brush it behind the witcher's ear.

    "Are you bound to defend and serve me?" Julian asked, tilting his head slightly.

    "Yes," the wolf growled, low and rumbling and nearly inaudible.

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    Prince Julian of Kerack, when he came of age and was officially named his father's heir, was gifted four bound and controlled witchers by the king of Kaedwen: the last four wolves of Kaer Morhen. Julian would prefer to accept the gift and set them free, but is forbidden from doing that on pain of their deaths. So instead, all he can do is apologize and treat them decently.

    This simple, compassionate act sets off a series of events that will irrevocably change his life, his witchers' lives, and the lives of everyone living in the Northern Kingdoms.

    (Technically incomplete in that the current ending was not the planned endpoint, but does not have a cliffhanger and is functionally a complete story. Subscribe to be notified when the hiatus ends.)

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    Jaskier, a royal pleasure slave, isn't exactly happy with his lot in life—he's having sex with less than desirable nobles at a pace nobody would want—but he's learned to be content with it. Things could be a lot worse.

    On occasion, Radovid sends him away to bestow his services on nobles who aren't stationed at court. During one such trip Jaskier witnesses the murder of a noble he was supposed to be pleasing, and sees the faces of the assassins; to keep him from identifying them to the authorities, Jaskier is taken with them when they leave, and finds himself held in the royal palace of Rivia. Life in Rivia is anything but what Jaskier would have expected and both the king of Rivia and his right hand are unlike any nobles Jaskier has ever known; the more time he spends with them, the more he realizes that they might just be what they seem to be—good men.

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    “Rumour has it, the White Wolf himself arrived this morning,” Essi says. “By portal, or there would have been a whole procession. Anyway, there were two witchers at the Academy, and they were asking about you.”

    “Me?”

    Essi holds out a sheet of paper without a word.

    It’s a bulletin board notice. Wanted Alive, it says. The Sandpiper. By order of the White Wolf, Warlord of the North. Below is an engraving of a wolf head, snarling and almost audibly growling.

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    “Which one? I’ve already met my soulmates, which one are you claiming to have?”
    “Not one you’ve met,” the other one said. “Some kid bard. Got the same mark though: three wolves and a cat in a field of flowers.”
    He wasn’t lying.

    Or: Jaskier's soulmark causes him quite a bit of trouble before he even meets his soulmates. And poor Eskel is just trying to get through the year, without having to worry about a soulmate he didn't know he had, and the bandits that captured him.

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