"There are decisions I think that I regret, but... whenever I look back at them, the alternatives aren't any better. I could have screamed for Zoya when the Druskelle found me, but then they would know that she and the others were there."

She sighed and kissed a scar running across Geralt's chest. He had so many.

"I still wanted to change the world," she murmured. "Everything I saw in Fjerda made me want it differently... but I still wanted it." It felt silly to say it out loud.