ancient sea update
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so sometimes the thing about raising a kid is that it makes you think extra hard about the way you were raised and sometimes that’s hard to go through.
“I never coddled you boys like this,” Vesemir said. He’d said it before, earlier, too, before Triss had come, and it had taken everything in Geralt not to snap at him then.
This time, Geralt turned and looked straight into his face. “I know,” he said.
Vesemir stared at him, relentless eye contact, and all of Geralt’s instincts wanted to make him drop his gaze, submit to his elder, but he wasn’t going to. He couldn’t. Vesemir’s expression shifted slowly, going incredulous and offended as Geralt didn’t move.
“Geralt,” Eskel said, coming up behind him.
Vesemir blinked at that, and looked at Eskel, and now his expression changed slightly again, to something Geralt wasn’t sure he’d ever seen before. Doubt, maybe. No, hurt. “You think I did wrong,” Vesemir said quietly. “You think I did you wrong.”
anyway, this is working up toward more comforting things but this is where we are, at the moment.
Chapter 8: Disposable
so sometimes the thing about raising a kid is that it makes you think extra hard about the way you were raised and sometimes that’s hard to go through.
“I never coddled you boys like this,” Vesemir said. He’d said it before, earlier, too, before Triss had come, and it had taken everything in Geralt not to snap at him then.
This time, Geralt turned and looked straight into his face. “I know,” he said.
Vesemir stared at him, relentless eye contact, and all of Geralt’s instincts wanted to make him drop his gaze, submit to his elder, but he wasn’t going to. He couldn’t. Vesemir’s expression shifted slowly, going incredulous and offended as Geralt didn’t move.
“Geralt,” Eskel said, coming up behind him.
Vesemir blinked at that, and looked at Eskel, and now his expression changed slightly again, to something Geralt wasn’t sure he’d ever seen before. Doubt, maybe. No, hurt. “You think I did wrong,” Vesemir said quietly. “You think I did you wrong.”
anyway, this is working up toward more comforting things but this is where we are, at the moment.
Chapter 8: Disposable
