"A witcher doesn't usually find a long-term relationship. It's not part of the codex, not anything like that, but it just doesn't happen. It doesn't make sense. We spend everything but the winter constantly traveling and risking our lives, through every country on the continent, wartime or not. You don't find many people willing to be part of a relationship like that."

He and Yennefer had an arrangement, but that was something else entirely. That had started with the Wish.

"But isn't it worth it? To step off your path, even for just a while, to have someone to love."