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    “How do you think your strong will compares to a strong arm?”

    Jaskier closed his eyes and allowed himself a single, self-deprecating chuckle. “Rather badly it would seem.”

    Cahir huffed in response, releasing his hold and brushing a gentle hand down Jaskier’s hair. “You have other uses I suppose.”

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    Follows on from ‘Rare Species’. Jaskier and Geralt have been separated for a year. During that time Jaskier’s acclaim has continued to flourish far and wide, until eventually he attracts the attention of an emperor.

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    26 Dec 2021

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    Jaskier was expecting all manner of things, but seeing Geralt walking through the door behind the alderman, followed by a red faced young man, was not one of them. Things really just couldn’t get any worse, could they?
    “Here he is, Witcher,” the alderman says, “the possessed boy.”
    Oh, and there he goes, putting the cart before the horse again, he supposes. Of course, it’s worse!

     

    Or: the one where Jaskier has seizures, and it lands him in a bit more trouble than he anticipated.

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    26 Dec 2021

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    “Why do you wear that collar?” the witcher asks.

    Jaskier startles. He’s been fiddling with it, he realises, a nervous habit. He didn’t think the witcher had noticed, even though those golden eyes seem to spot most things.

    “It’s so people know what I am,” he says.

    “And what are you?” the witcher says. His tone has turned surprisingly gentle. Perhaps he can hear the misery in Jaskier’s voice.

    “Bound in service,” Jaskier explains. He tries on a smile. “It might not look like it, but I’m as much of a prisoner as you are.”

    Jaskier didn’t exactly plan to escape from his master alongside a terrifying witcher. But it might turn out to be one of his better decisions.

    [Inspired by The Accidental Warlord and His Pack by Inexplicifics.]

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    15 Nov 2020

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    The girl is young, earnest and a little scared. “Do you kill monsters if they’re human?” she asks abruptly.

    Geralt nods at her to sit down, looking around him to check if anyone’s listening. “Tell me what’s troubling you.”

    “There’s a woman,” the girl whispers, leaning forward over the table. “Rich. Powerful. She collects people. And when she takes a fancy to someone, they’re never seen again.”

    Jaskier gets taken apart. Geralt works to put him back together.

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    13 Sep 2020

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    Julian Alfred Pankratz, Viscount de Lettenhove, is a poet knight of Redania and the king's bastard son. Jaskier just wants to be a bard.

    Geralt isn't the only one trying to escape his destiny.

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    28 Aug 2020