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[chickens clucking]
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[door opens]
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[Yennefer gasps]
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Geralt!
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- [sighs]
- I was only at the market, Yen.
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I made more than a few pennies
thanks to your garden.
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[chuckles]
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I can't wait to grow old together.
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You, me, and her.
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The family we always dreamed of.
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[gasps]
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[voice whispering] That's a… very…
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Pretty dream.
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[voice fading] Pretty dream…
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[baby crying]
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[baby screaming]
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Geralt!
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[baby screaming]
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Give her to me.
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[crying]
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She's ours.
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- [horse neighing]
- [wheels rumbling]
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- Fuck.
- [shivering]
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[Fringilla murmurs] I don't want you…
[gasping]
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[horse neighs]
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[gasping] I said don't touch me.
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- Wake up.
- [yelps]
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Don't touch me!
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[gasping]
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[horse neighs]
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We're moving away from Cintra.
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Fuck.
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Finally, an honest response.
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- Ow!
- We're stuck here together.
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Who knows,
maybe we'll be friends yet again.
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We'll be saved.
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I have faith.
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Forget faith. We've got power.
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[horse neighs]
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[wheels stop]
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[bolts rattling]
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Keep them close.
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Where are you taking us?
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I'm a citizen of Nilfgaard.
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The soldiers you killed
were also Nilfgaardians.
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Istredd spoke of these.
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They look like Aretuza.
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Built by elves to honor the prophets.
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You set fire to them in the early wars.
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Better lost to history than humans.
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[Yennefer] I've never seen so many elves.
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[Filavandrel] I need to see her.
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I come bearing gifts.
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[Fringilla] What is this place?
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You keep behind me.
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You keep your mouths shut.
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[chains rattle]
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Nilfgaard's fight is with
the Northern Kingdoms, not with the elves.
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Set us free,
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- and we promise to grant you s...
- [whoosh]
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[in Elder] You said gifts.
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Hostages. Humans...
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You should have hung their corpses nearby.
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They can be of use.
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These are human forests.
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They're our forests.
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This one was in dimeritium?
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This one was a captive of Nilfgaard.
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I'm also an elf.
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[in Elder] Is this how you treat your own?
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Do you sing our songs?
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Do you honor our elders?
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Have you ever shed a tear
over anything elven?
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You are no elf.
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- String them up.
- We've been digging here for weeks.
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Every day increases
the risk of being found.
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You don't lead our people any more,
Filavandrel.
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Or has the White Robed One
visited your dreams too?
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I'm doing everything I can
to keep you safe.
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Once we find what we're looking for,
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we ship their heads back to Aretuza
as a reminder of elven glory.
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[wind whistling]
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[Roach snorts]
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We're nearly there.
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[Ciri] This is your home?
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How many did you say there were?
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I didn't.
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Last I checked…
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We were 20.
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Now?
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Maybe less.
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You sure we're safe here?
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[Geralt] Keep up.
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[murmur of voices]
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[laughter]
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- Lambchop.
- [door slams]
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[man] Here comes trouble!
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Where the fuck have you been?
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We thought you got lost.
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Or killed.
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- Not yet.
- [man chuckles]
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Sorry.
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[laughs]
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- Brother!
- So!
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- He returns.
- Come here!
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- Knew you'd make a fuckin' entrance.
- He's back.
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- Finally, brother.
- I knew it.
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Wolf. You're home.
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Finally.
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- [Geralt] Vesemir.
- Huh?
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Yeah.
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I had to make a few stops.
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Hmm.
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[man] He's home!
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Brother!
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- [laughter]
- There's the man!
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So, there I am, freezing my bollocks off
in the middle of a grain field
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for the second straight night,
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when the farmer's wife comes sneaking out
to tell me that I'm wasting my time.
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It wasn't a mora
her husband saw leaving that room.
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No.
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It was the fucking field hand!
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[laughter]
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Oh, and now she's wailing,
"Oh, what are we gonna do?"
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"My husband won't pay you
if you don't deliver a mora head!"
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[chuckles]
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So I pulled out my sword and I said…
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"Bet he'll pay double
for the field hand's."
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[laughter]
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Good old Lambchop.
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She returned
with two horses and a fur rug.
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Best job I had all year. [chuckles]
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Each of your faces
is cause enough for celebration.
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You're safe. You made it back.
You made it home.
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- Aye.
- Hear, hear!
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Here's to another winter, together.
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Yeah.
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- Well said.
- Aye.
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To breath in our lungs.
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Hear, hear!
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To the brothers.
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[men] The brothers.
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To forgetting the fucking Path!
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For one fucking night.
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- Who's ready?
- [all] Eskel!
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- [laughter]
- Eskel's back!
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Are you all right?
You look like day-old shit.
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You should see the other guy.
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Hmm.
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The bout lasted six hours.
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I'd have got the fucker, too,
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if hadn't lost my elixirs.
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[scattered laughter]
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Took her hand, though.
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- What's that?
- Is that a leshy?
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Is that a leshy?
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- What is it?
- [Eskel] Walked like one.
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Talked like one.
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Sort of.
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Sort of?
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I haven't crossed a leshy in a while.
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- Not in Kaedwen.
- [Eskel] Well, count yourselves lucky.
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Unless you're aching for the sting
of one of their fucking roots.
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[men murmuring]
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Fire through the heart
is the only thing that puts one down.
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- Six hours in, that didn't occur to you?
- [scattered laughter]
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[chuckles]
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[Ciri laughs]
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Who the hell are you?
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[swallows]
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Princess Cirilla of Cintra.
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Pleasure to meet you.
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[wind whistling]
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[wood creaking]
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[grunts]
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[grunts]
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When you told me
you called the Law of Surprise...
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- [sighs]
- …I told you, "Big mistake."
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[horse neighs]
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You said you promised
you wouldn't claim the child.
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I said, "Good. Still a big mistake."
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- I had to save her.
- I know.
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And you knew I would call you out on it.
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Yeah.
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You brought her here anyway.
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[sighs]
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[squeaking]
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[rattling]
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[door creaking]
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[wind whistling]
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[Vesemir] So you're telling me
she escaped Nilfgaard.
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Survived the wholesale slaughter
of her kingdom.
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How?
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I asked.
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- She lied.
- Hmm.
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It's not like you to let it go.
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Witchers watch for answers.
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- I think you might've said that one.
- Oh, what was I thinking?
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[both chuckle]
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I brought her here so she'd be safe.
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It's easier for me to protect her
within these walls.
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- Long enough to watch for answers?
- Exactly. Learn who she is. What she is.
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And how I can help her.
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You say that…
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But remember what happened the last time
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witchers shoved their noses
into the dramas of courts and kingdoms.
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[sighs] What if your princess
is more than you bargained for?
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I know that already.
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- [Eskel] Princess.
- [gasps]
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Eskel.
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I'm just exploring.
Told Geralt I'd find a good room.
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[chuckles]
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Well, this…
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Isn't a castle, Your Highness.
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They're all shitholes.
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[sighs]
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[lute playing]
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♪ Think, where was our bent knee ♪
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♪ Let man-blood flood our fields ♪
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Tissaia said elven mages were dead.
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She was wrong. Or lied.
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00:14:57,623 --> 00:14:58,831
- Hmm.
- Neither's a shock.
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- You had a nightmare earlier.
- Night terrors are common after battle.
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- You've had them...
- What was yours about?
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00:15:05,790 --> 00:15:08,915
- Is now the time to share stories...
- Do you really think I'm asking
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because I personally give a shit?
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00:15:11,873 --> 00:15:13,581
Did you dream of someone hidden in a robe?
228
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A black robe. How did you know that?
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I've dreamt of one in red.
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And our elven mage dreams of one in white.
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Shared dreams are a powerful omen.
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Yes, well, I'm topped off
on magical mystery at the moment.
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What matters is, we can use this
to our advantage.
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- [Fringilla] We need to talk to Francesca.
- [sings]
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[Yennefer] She's no reason to trust us.
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- We need to gain favor first.
- Shocking.
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We have to do it Yen's way again.
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More shocking this time
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- is you finally stand to benefit.
- [scoffs]
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This really all the hunters could find?
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- These woods are scarce of life.
- [fire hisses]
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Perhaps the others in Temeria or Redania
are having more luck.
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They lick the boots of humans.
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The same boots
that will eventually crush their necks.
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You deserve better, brother.
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All of us do.
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You promised us Dol Blathanna.
How much longer must we search in vain?
248
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Each sun sets on fewer elves.
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Our land is stained, our elders dead.
250
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Even our caves at the edge of the world
have fallen to monsters.
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But we mustn't lose faith
in a bright elven future.
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What has been need not always be.
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- I know these ruins will bear answers.
- [lute plays]
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The visions I've had
since entering these woods give faith.
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[ringing sound]
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[speaking Elder]
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The white robe hides her face,
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but I know it's Ithlinne,
our most sacred prophet,
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guiding us to safe havens.
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We will rebuild.
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Not meat, but it'll dull your hunger.
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I will not let us down.
263
00:16:53,956 --> 00:16:55,790
What has been need not always be.
264
00:17:00,790 --> 00:17:02,040
[sighs]
265
00:17:13,498 --> 00:17:15,331
I've never heard it sung with words.
266
00:17:21,706 --> 00:17:23,748
The heimlon you were playing.
267
00:17:23,831 --> 00:17:26,956
A man I knew,
he said it was to guide lost elves home.
268
00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,456
Those I've lost, yes.
Dead elves and orphaned elves.
269
00:17:30,540 --> 00:17:31,998
The lyrics change often.
270
00:17:33,998 --> 00:17:37,290
The White Flame wants to punish
the very people who oppress yours.
271
00:17:39,665 --> 00:17:42,331
Thieving a thief
merely makes you the latest thief.
272
00:17:42,956 --> 00:17:46,248
Or tell me, does the White Flame intend
to hand Xintrea back
273
00:17:46,331 --> 00:17:48,581
when he's done
dancing on Calanthe's grave?
274
00:17:48,665 --> 00:17:51,540
- Xintrea?
- Cintra's elven name before it was stolen.
275
00:17:55,123 --> 00:17:57,706
Are you the Filavandrel of the songs?
276
00:17:58,790 --> 00:18:02,956
The edge of the world?
The leader who rose against the lioness?
277
00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:04,790
The lying bard and his tunes.
278
00:18:07,873 --> 00:18:11,748
If I remember right, the bard's songs
claim that you were king of the elves.
279
00:18:13,831 --> 00:18:16,290
My people turned to Francesca
after I failed to beat Calanthe.
280
00:18:16,373 --> 00:18:17,331
They needed faith.
281
00:18:17,998 --> 00:18:20,831
Faith's a simple medicine
for desperate souls.
282
00:18:22,206 --> 00:18:23,873
Faith sustains us all in dark times.
283
00:18:26,373 --> 00:18:27,998
Your… seduction,
284
00:18:28,081 --> 00:18:31,665
whilst charming, it lacks
the cunning of your father's blood.
285
00:18:31,748 --> 00:18:33,665
Yes, well, he was half elf.
286
00:18:35,165 --> 00:18:37,748
I heard there hasn't been
a pure-blooded elf born in decades.
287
00:18:40,873 --> 00:18:42,748
We've dreamt of robed figures too.
288
00:18:43,956 --> 00:18:44,831
Guiding us.
289
00:18:45,331 --> 00:18:47,040
Hers is red. Mine is black.
290
00:18:50,915 --> 00:18:54,623
If you free us, perhaps we can work
together. Figure out their meaning.
291
00:18:58,165 --> 00:19:00,415
You've been digging here for how long?
292
00:19:01,415 --> 00:19:02,748
Perhaps we're the key.
293
00:19:03,706 --> 00:19:05,040
[elf shouts in Elder]
294
00:19:05,956 --> 00:19:07,998
- We've found something!
- [gasps]
295
00:19:08,956 --> 00:19:09,915
Close.
296
00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:12,081
Very close.
297
00:19:25,248 --> 00:19:26,540
It hides in forests?
298
00:19:27,873 --> 00:19:29,873
- There are others like it?
- A few.
299
00:19:30,915 --> 00:19:33,623
Dying out, though,
because they can't reproduce.
300
00:19:36,373 --> 00:19:39,415
Any you come across will have been around
since the Conjunction.
301
00:19:42,290 --> 00:19:44,873
So,
is that what we'll be doing here, then?
302
00:19:47,081 --> 00:19:48,206
Studying monsters.
303
00:19:48,290 --> 00:19:49,415
[grunts]
304
00:19:49,998 --> 00:19:50,831
Yeah.
305
00:19:55,081 --> 00:19:57,456
Collecting supplies
for those potions you take?
306
00:19:58,331 --> 00:19:59,165
Sure.
307
00:20:04,290 --> 00:20:05,123
Training?
308
00:20:05,790 --> 00:20:06,706
Training…
309
00:20:07,498 --> 00:20:08,706
Is dangerous.
310
00:20:13,165 --> 00:20:15,081
So's the man with the black-winged helmet.
311
00:20:20,706 --> 00:20:22,206
And you want to kill him?
312
00:20:23,081 --> 00:20:23,915
Yes.
313
00:20:24,540 --> 00:20:25,373
Why?
314
00:20:28,206 --> 00:20:29,206
I hate him.
315
00:20:34,915 --> 00:20:36,206
[sighs]
316
00:20:39,790 --> 00:20:40,790
[sighs]
317
00:20:41,456 --> 00:20:42,706
This is important.
318
00:20:44,456 --> 00:20:46,081
We don't kill out of fear.
319
00:20:48,123 --> 00:20:49,665
We kill to save lives.
320
00:20:51,456 --> 00:20:52,623
Do you understand?
321
00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:57,040
Hmm.
322
00:20:57,873 --> 00:21:01,290
Well, how did you spend your days
when you first came here?
323
00:21:01,373 --> 00:21:02,873
I was beaten and starved.
324
00:21:04,498 --> 00:21:05,456
How's your room?
325
00:21:05,540 --> 00:21:07,498
- It has rats.
- That's a good sign.
326
00:21:07,581 --> 00:21:08,748
- [crack]
- [grunts]
327
00:21:09,248 --> 00:21:11,206
Means it's one of the warm ones.
328
00:21:14,206 --> 00:21:15,040
[door opens]
329
00:21:15,123 --> 00:21:16,831
[men cheering outside]
330
00:21:18,456 --> 00:21:19,456
What's that?
331
00:21:21,123 --> 00:21:22,165
Stay here.
332
00:21:22,665 --> 00:21:25,415
- You know, in Cintra, I went to parties...
- Cirilla.
333
00:21:28,706 --> 00:21:29,956
[opens door]
334
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:31,290
[door slams]
335
00:21:39,831 --> 00:21:41,790
[folk music playing]
336
00:21:41,873 --> 00:21:43,873
[cheering and laughter]
337
00:21:52,415 --> 00:21:55,081
[woman] Here's a good one!
Step over that bugle…
338
00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,915
So this is where witchers are hatched.
339
00:22:01,665 --> 00:22:04,790
I hope there's a plaque
to commemorate your greatness.
340
00:22:07,706 --> 00:22:09,915
Tavern outside Dorian,
handful of years ago.
341
00:22:10,540 --> 00:22:13,248
I bathed basilisk blood from your hair.
342
00:22:13,831 --> 00:22:15,040
[sighs]
343
00:22:16,540 --> 00:22:17,831
It was wyvern blood.
344
00:22:18,373 --> 00:22:19,706
You shouldn't be here.
345
00:22:19,790 --> 00:22:22,581
I hear that you have a daughter now.
346
00:22:23,748 --> 00:22:26,748
And I thought the softest thing
about you was that you paid.
347
00:22:27,415 --> 00:22:28,748
She's not my daughter.
348
00:22:29,415 --> 00:22:32,456
Oh. Well, in that case,
I could take her in.
349
00:22:32,540 --> 00:22:35,831
She'd have the boys
eating out of her hand... Ooh! [giggles]
350
00:22:39,248 --> 00:22:41,165
And he says he's not a father.
351
00:22:46,123 --> 00:22:47,748
[loud cheering]
352
00:22:55,165 --> 00:22:56,290
[chuckling]
353
00:22:57,540 --> 00:22:58,373
What is this?
354
00:23:00,206 --> 00:23:02,873
[Vesemir] Eskel found some friends
down the mountain.
355
00:23:03,956 --> 00:23:06,873
They shouldn't be here.
And they should know better.
356
00:23:07,956 --> 00:23:10,373
He drank too much stramonium
for that sting, I reckon.
357
00:23:10,456 --> 00:23:11,831
- Here!
- [Vesemir] They all did.
358
00:23:11,915 --> 00:23:13,540
Get me another drink!
359
00:23:13,623 --> 00:23:16,123
[Vesemir] They won't remember anything
by tomorrow.
360
00:23:16,998 --> 00:23:18,373
Certainly not how they got here.
361
00:23:21,248 --> 00:23:22,831
[man] Wrong destination!
362
00:23:22,915 --> 00:23:24,331
[laughter and cheering]
363
00:23:32,331 --> 00:23:35,081
So one of my regular clients, a druid,
364
00:23:35,831 --> 00:23:38,956
he was telling me
leshies are giant talking trees.
365
00:23:39,540 --> 00:23:41,623
- [sighs]
- They're beautiful, too.
366
00:23:41,706 --> 00:23:42,540
[grunts]
367
00:23:43,165 --> 00:23:44,790
- We don't pay for talk.
- All right.
368
00:23:45,831 --> 00:23:46,748
Okay.
369
00:23:51,373 --> 00:23:52,998
Eskel, what are you doing?
370
00:23:54,665 --> 00:23:57,081
Are you takin' a break
from tuckin' in your girl?
371
00:23:58,373 --> 00:24:00,331
I understand that you're in pain,
372
00:24:00,831 --> 00:24:03,415
and you can drown that pain
with whomever you want.
373
00:24:04,415 --> 00:24:05,540
Just not here.
374
00:24:06,998 --> 00:24:08,123
[snorts]
375
00:24:08,206 --> 00:24:09,956
Aah, it's funny, you know.
376
00:24:10,456 --> 00:24:13,915
Me and the boys, we come back here,
all banged up.
377
00:24:14,706 --> 00:24:16,623
Rock troll bust Lambert's eye.
378
00:24:16,706 --> 00:24:19,873
A werewolf took a chunk
out of Coen's arse. Eh?
379
00:24:19,956 --> 00:24:21,540
And what do you come back with?
380
00:24:23,581 --> 00:24:24,623
All I say is,
381
00:24:25,373 --> 00:24:26,748
when I find a princess…
382
00:24:27,623 --> 00:24:28,623
[laughs]
383
00:24:28,706 --> 00:24:30,831
…the last thing I'm gonna do is…
384
00:24:31,581 --> 00:24:32,665
Play knight.
385
00:24:35,331 --> 00:24:36,540
[grunts]
386
00:24:46,790 --> 00:24:47,623
Eskel.
387
00:24:48,956 --> 00:24:49,956
Go to bed.
388
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,040
Hmm?
389
00:24:54,165 --> 00:24:55,206
[panting]
390
00:25:05,748 --> 00:25:07,081
[bird screeches]
391
00:25:08,331 --> 00:25:09,581
We need a plan.
392
00:25:09,665 --> 00:25:11,831
- What is wrong with you?
- I feel off.
393
00:25:12,748 --> 00:25:13,998
The dimeritium.
394
00:25:14,081 --> 00:25:15,790
[elf] On your feet. Up!
395
00:25:16,290 --> 00:25:17,498
[sighs]
396
00:25:20,165 --> 00:25:21,290
Where are you taking us?
397
00:25:21,373 --> 00:25:24,665
You kill me, the White Flame
will hold no mercy hunting you down.
398
00:25:25,331 --> 00:25:28,040
Do you humans ever stop talking?
399
00:25:38,290 --> 00:25:42,248
- [Fringilla] What is this?
- [Yennefer] Runes of some sort. Linked by…
400
00:25:42,998 --> 00:25:43,831
Chaos?
401
00:25:45,873 --> 00:25:49,456
[Fringilla] This one's different.
The arrival of monsters.
402
00:25:50,790 --> 00:25:52,206
The Conjunction of the Spheres.
403
00:25:55,998 --> 00:25:58,248
The heavens roared
and the realms collided.
404
00:26:01,290 --> 00:26:02,331
Its survivors…
405
00:26:03,873 --> 00:26:06,165
lost and forsaken in a new world.
406
00:26:06,248 --> 00:26:07,456
New to you.
407
00:26:08,290 --> 00:26:09,415
It was ours.
408
00:26:11,331 --> 00:26:13,456
Your dreams. Tell me.
409
00:26:13,998 --> 00:26:16,915
Show us yours first.
This works both ways now.
410
00:26:20,206 --> 00:26:23,956
In my vision,
I'm lost in a maze of dead bodies,
411
00:26:24,498 --> 00:26:27,040
elves stacked so high they shade the sun.
412
00:26:29,331 --> 00:26:31,290
Ithlinne guides me clear the labyrinth,
413
00:26:31,373 --> 00:26:34,040
where I see the sun rise
on a new elven kingdom.
414
00:26:36,081 --> 00:26:38,623
My guide's not Ithlinne. It's Emhyr.
415
00:26:40,956 --> 00:26:42,706
I can't see him. He's hooded.
416
00:26:43,498 --> 00:26:46,498
He just returned to Nilfgaard.
He killed the Usurper.
417
00:26:47,581 --> 00:26:48,790
He saved me.
418
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:50,873
And yours?
419
00:27:02,081 --> 00:27:03,040
What are you doing?
420
00:27:06,248 --> 00:27:07,915
[Yennefer blowing]
421
00:27:13,998 --> 00:27:16,415
It's Elder speech, but primitive.
422
00:27:17,665 --> 00:27:19,248
"Behold the mother of forests,
423
00:27:19,331 --> 00:27:22,206
the deathless mother, nesting in dreams."
424
00:27:24,456 --> 00:27:25,915
The rest is gibberish.
425
00:27:25,998 --> 00:27:28,081
No. It's an incantation.
426
00:27:28,581 --> 00:27:30,456
About a hut, with no doors.
427
00:27:31,206 --> 00:27:33,998
My father,
he used to scare us with stories
428
00:27:34,081 --> 00:27:35,790
about the witch in the woods,
429
00:27:36,748 --> 00:27:39,623
her home perched on basilisk legs.
430
00:27:40,123 --> 00:27:43,248
She would lure the children in
to be boiled and eaten.
431
00:27:43,331 --> 00:27:47,415
Wouldn't be the first time mankind
cried "witch" at the sight of elven power.
432
00:27:47,498 --> 00:27:48,790
My brother's right.
433
00:27:48,873 --> 00:27:52,040
These are our ancestors,
kneeling, worshiping.
434
00:27:52,623 --> 00:27:55,248
Perhaps this deathless mother's
one of the old gods.
435
00:27:56,415 --> 00:27:59,081
First you say it's Ithlinne,
then it's one of the old gods.
436
00:27:59,165 --> 00:28:01,373
What designs would either have
with two humans?
437
00:28:01,456 --> 00:28:03,165
[rumbling and cracking]
438
00:28:15,123 --> 00:28:17,623
[echoing whisper]
Turn your back to the forest.
439
00:28:18,456 --> 00:28:19,581
She's calling us.
440
00:28:19,665 --> 00:28:21,873
[distorted voices whispering]
441
00:28:21,956 --> 00:28:23,623
Stand guard until we've returned.
442
00:28:23,706 --> 00:28:24,790
- Francesca.
- No.
443
00:28:24,873 --> 00:28:28,290
Gage, I swore I'd take care of you
since we were children.
444
00:28:28,915 --> 00:28:30,540
Now let me take care of us all.
445
00:28:32,331 --> 00:28:33,373
[sighs]
446
00:28:36,248 --> 00:28:37,290
Do she and I get a vote
447
00:28:37,373 --> 00:28:39,790
- on joining your prayer circle?
- What do you think?
448
00:28:52,956 --> 00:28:54,956
[laughter and music from hall]
449
00:28:55,665 --> 00:28:56,790
[loud cheering]
450
00:29:15,415 --> 00:29:18,623
Newcomers always struggle sleeping
their first nights.
451
00:29:20,540 --> 00:29:21,790
It's the chill.
452
00:29:25,206 --> 00:29:27,581
Klef here was one of the first witchers.
453
00:29:28,915 --> 00:29:30,040
Before my time.
454
00:29:31,665 --> 00:29:32,915
What happened to him?
455
00:29:33,415 --> 00:29:35,540
One of the oldest monsters. A demon.
456
00:29:36,123 --> 00:29:37,290
Long extinct.
457
00:29:38,581 --> 00:29:43,415
She wreaked havoc until the witchers
bound her deep in the forest.
458
00:29:45,248 --> 00:29:47,206
That's what she used to kill him.
459
00:29:49,081 --> 00:29:52,498
Some say
she still calls to the unfortunate souls
460
00:29:52,581 --> 00:29:54,331
unlucky enough to cross her woods.
461
00:29:54,998 --> 00:29:56,915
Lures them in to devour them.
462
00:29:58,831 --> 00:30:01,123
Scary stories don't really work on me.
463
00:30:05,790 --> 00:30:07,498
And this one, Deglan,
464
00:30:07,581 --> 00:30:10,081
was killed by men right in these halls.
465
00:30:12,248 --> 00:30:14,081
He taught me everything I know.
466
00:30:14,790 --> 00:30:15,748
Made me a witcher.
467
00:30:17,540 --> 00:30:20,581
He was like a father to you, wasn't he?
As you're Geralt's.
468
00:30:21,790 --> 00:30:22,998
Something like that.
469
00:30:24,623 --> 00:30:26,415
It is easier when they're young.
470
00:30:26,498 --> 00:30:29,665
Wait for them
to finish crying for Ma and feed them,
471
00:30:29,748 --> 00:30:33,915
train them, send them out into the world,
and see who comes back alive.
472
00:30:39,206 --> 00:30:40,456
You don't frighten easily.
473
00:30:42,623 --> 00:30:45,498
There's times to stand still,
and there's times to keep moving.
474
00:30:45,581 --> 00:30:47,706
Did that mantra help you escape Cintra?
475
00:30:49,831 --> 00:30:51,498
Geralt said I'd be protected here.
476
00:30:51,581 --> 00:30:54,165
It's hard to do
when I don't know who I'm protecting.
477
00:30:54,665 --> 00:30:56,581
Or what I'm protecting her from.
478
00:31:01,456 --> 00:31:02,498
[woman gasps]
479
00:31:09,248 --> 00:31:11,290
You took on that wooden beast.
480
00:31:11,998 --> 00:31:13,581
Let me take on yours!
481
00:31:13,665 --> 00:31:14,748
Oh!
482
00:31:23,456 --> 00:31:25,206
[creaking]
483
00:31:26,373 --> 00:31:27,831
[woman moaning]
484
00:31:29,665 --> 00:31:31,331
[wind whistling]
485
00:31:36,123 --> 00:31:37,790
Come on. Keep moving.
486
00:31:43,290 --> 00:31:44,831
If you dreamt of Emhyr,
487
00:31:45,873 --> 00:31:47,873
why were you so terrified when you woke?
488
00:31:50,540 --> 00:31:51,415
Tell me.
489
00:31:55,581 --> 00:31:56,623
I'm in the dark.
490
00:31:57,915 --> 00:31:59,498
There are people over me…
491
00:32:00,331 --> 00:32:01,373
Touching me.
492
00:32:02,206 --> 00:32:03,581
Just gentle taps.
493
00:32:04,790 --> 00:32:07,206
I can't see them. I can't stop them. So…
494
00:32:09,373 --> 00:32:11,040
I just lay there and let them.
495
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,873
After the Usurper executed Fergus,
496
00:32:17,831 --> 00:32:19,998
he had all of the mages moved to a prison.
497
00:32:22,956 --> 00:32:23,998
Uh…
498
00:32:24,623 --> 00:32:25,581
A playhouse.
499
00:32:27,498 --> 00:32:30,540
I was there for years.
Then Emhyr found me.
500
00:32:32,290 --> 00:32:33,915
[voice hissing]
501
00:32:38,415 --> 00:32:40,290
[whispering voice] I could go walking…
502
00:32:41,665 --> 00:32:44,748
- [wind whistling]
- …if you were alive…
503
00:32:45,581 --> 00:32:46,831
A hut with no doors.
504
00:32:47,581 --> 00:32:49,123
- The inscription.
- [Yennefer] Wait.
505
00:32:50,623 --> 00:32:54,081
If you're wrong,
if the dreams don't mean what you think...
506
00:32:54,165 --> 00:32:58,040
Behold the mother of forests,
the deathless mother, nesting in dreams.
507
00:32:58,706 --> 00:33:01,665
- Turn your back to the forest, hut, hut.
- [rumbling]
508
00:33:02,498 --> 00:33:03,873
Turn your front to me,
509
00:33:04,540 --> 00:33:06,206
hut, hut.
510
00:33:11,165 --> 00:33:12,998
[echoing roar]
511
00:33:21,956 --> 00:33:23,540
[laughter]
512
00:33:23,623 --> 00:33:25,248
- Have you seen Cirilla?
- Yeah.
513
00:33:25,331 --> 00:33:28,081
I saw her pounding White Gull
and dancing on the table.
514
00:33:28,956 --> 00:33:29,998
- Funny.
- Mmm.
515
00:33:31,290 --> 00:33:32,540
I caught her spying.
516
00:33:36,623 --> 00:33:40,248
Geralt, it's her first night here.
What did you expect?
517
00:33:40,956 --> 00:33:42,831
I was hoping she'd do as I say.
518
00:33:42,915 --> 00:33:44,665
Kids never do what you say.
519
00:33:44,748 --> 00:33:45,748
Hmm.
520
00:33:45,831 --> 00:33:48,331
We had a chat, and then I sent her to bed.
521
00:33:50,081 --> 00:33:51,623
Are you sure you're ready for this?
522
00:33:56,415 --> 00:33:59,998
I was in a cell beneath the city
when Cintra was sacked.
523
00:34:00,623 --> 00:34:01,706
I heard it all.
524
00:34:02,873 --> 00:34:04,998
Fire, screams, and death.
525
00:34:06,540 --> 00:34:09,040
The same sounds
that I heard here as a boy,
526
00:34:09,956 --> 00:34:11,331
hiding in the cellar,
527
00:34:12,165 --> 00:34:14,415
waiting for the humans to come for us.
528
00:34:16,623 --> 00:34:20,165
You were the last surviving witcher
after Kaer Morhen fell.
529
00:34:21,456 --> 00:34:23,831
You and a batch of mutated orphans
530
00:34:24,831 --> 00:34:26,248
with nowhere else to go.
531
00:34:28,873 --> 00:34:29,706
Were you ready?
532
00:34:30,456 --> 00:34:31,373
No.
533
00:34:31,456 --> 00:34:33,165
But you protected us anyway.
534
00:34:33,248 --> 00:34:34,165
No.
535
00:34:34,956 --> 00:34:37,123
I taught you how to fend for yourselves.
536
00:34:39,456 --> 00:34:40,665
[chuckles]
537
00:34:41,165 --> 00:34:42,998
- [ringing]
- [chains rattling]
538
00:34:43,873 --> 00:34:45,956
[sighing sound echoes]
539
00:34:47,790 --> 00:34:49,206
[women gasping]
540
00:34:49,290 --> 00:34:50,165
- No!
- Hey!
541
00:34:50,998 --> 00:34:52,706
[high-pitched buzzing]
542
00:34:53,373 --> 00:34:54,665
[creaking]
543
00:34:55,456 --> 00:34:57,456
[skittering and rumbling]
544
00:34:58,623 --> 00:35:00,206
[heavy creaking]
545
00:35:00,290 --> 00:35:02,165
[pattering]
546
00:35:02,248 --> 00:35:04,165
Maybe Eskel's leshy wants its hand back.
547
00:35:04,248 --> 00:35:06,248
[pattering and creaking continue]
548
00:35:09,248 --> 00:35:10,706
Wield your wits, boys.
549
00:35:11,456 --> 00:35:13,206
- I'll secure the guests.
- I'll check the wing.
550
00:35:13,290 --> 00:35:16,665
- We'll check the perimeter.
- Follow me! Get a move on!
551
00:35:16,748 --> 00:35:18,081
- Let's go!
- [Lambert] Move it!
552
00:35:18,165 --> 00:35:19,873
- I'll find Cirilla.
- [Vesemir] No.
553
00:35:20,540 --> 00:35:21,956
Do what you do best.
554
00:35:22,998 --> 00:35:23,915
Stay and fight.
555
00:35:29,915 --> 00:35:31,290
[loud banging]
556
00:35:31,373 --> 00:35:33,415
- [gasps]
- Look alive, girl! We've got company.
557
00:35:33,498 --> 00:35:35,331
- What are you doing? Stay back.
- Hey!
558
00:35:35,831 --> 00:35:39,290
Don't barge into a girl's room
waving about a sword, you moron!
559
00:35:39,373 --> 00:35:42,581
- [gasping]
- Stand guard outside.
560
00:35:43,623 --> 00:35:45,456
I was following fucking orders.
561
00:35:46,123 --> 00:35:48,123
Come on, let's go! Move it!
562
00:35:51,998 --> 00:35:53,915
[water dripping]
563
00:35:54,415 --> 00:35:56,123
[creaking]
564
00:36:03,081 --> 00:36:04,373
[thump]
565
00:36:05,706 --> 00:36:07,373
[rumbling]
566
00:36:07,456 --> 00:36:08,915
[creaking]
567
00:36:17,456 --> 00:36:18,956
[creaking continues]
568
00:36:25,415 --> 00:36:26,873
Where are you?
569
00:36:30,123 --> 00:36:31,581
- [crashing]
- [screaming]
570
00:36:31,665 --> 00:36:32,998
[gasping]
571
00:36:33,081 --> 00:36:34,498
- [squeaking]
- [woman sobbing]
572
00:36:36,790 --> 00:36:38,790
[chittering and squelching]
573
00:36:41,998 --> 00:36:43,581
[rumbling]
574
00:36:54,165 --> 00:36:56,165
[whispering voices]
575
00:36:57,165 --> 00:36:58,956
- [wind whistling]
- [groans softly]
576
00:37:05,206 --> 00:37:07,123
[whispering voices overlapping]
577
00:37:21,081 --> 00:37:22,040
What are you?
578
00:37:23,581 --> 00:37:24,540
Hello.
579
00:37:27,706 --> 00:37:29,123
Don't be scared.
580
00:37:29,206 --> 00:37:30,706
I'm here to help you.
581
00:37:31,540 --> 00:37:32,373
Ithlinne?
582
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:35,873
I knew it.
583
00:37:37,623 --> 00:37:38,831
You're not him.
584
00:37:40,290 --> 00:37:41,290
I know what you are.
585
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:43,831
[Emhyr] An old wives' tale for children.
586
00:37:46,623 --> 00:37:48,290
Are you a child, Fringilla?
587
00:37:49,248 --> 00:37:52,373
Did I save you from the playhouse
to be a child?
588
00:37:54,331 --> 00:37:55,373
I'm not scared.
589
00:37:56,165 --> 00:37:57,540
And I don't do help.
590
00:37:57,623 --> 00:37:59,873
Yes, you don't need anyone.
591
00:38:01,331 --> 00:38:02,790
You have nothing to hide here.
592
00:38:02,873 --> 00:38:03,790
I know.
593
00:38:04,290 --> 00:38:06,248
It's just… the path has been hard.
594
00:38:06,331 --> 00:38:09,123
And the path forward will be harder still.
595
00:38:09,206 --> 00:38:10,956
[echoing] But I can help you.
596
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:12,623
[voices hissing]
597
00:38:14,873 --> 00:38:15,706
And yet…
598
00:38:16,748 --> 00:38:18,581
You've stayed for decades.
599
00:38:20,248 --> 00:38:21,081
Why?
600
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,040
Is it love?
601
00:38:23,998 --> 00:38:25,415
Legacy, you say?
602
00:38:28,123 --> 00:38:28,956
Power!
603
00:38:29,665 --> 00:38:30,956
That's what you live for.
604
00:38:31,623 --> 00:38:33,873
[laughing] That's your play?
It's rather desperate.
605
00:38:33,956 --> 00:38:36,081
You're the desperate one, Yennefer.
606
00:38:36,581 --> 00:38:37,665
[distorted] The most.
607
00:38:44,665 --> 00:38:45,790
You are not the new sun.
608
00:38:46,956 --> 00:38:49,748
- You are not him.
- Oh, he'll never tell you what I will.
609
00:38:50,623 --> 00:38:54,331
The path to true strength
lies not in humble faith,
610
00:38:55,706 --> 00:38:57,331
but in believing in oneself…
611
00:38:57,415 --> 00:38:59,873
[Ithlinne, echoing]
…and seizing one's destiny.
612
00:39:02,456 --> 00:39:07,873
The world will die in frost
and be reborn with a new sun.
613
00:39:08,915 --> 00:39:12,248
But first, the earth will flow
with the blood of elves.
614
00:39:13,706 --> 00:39:15,123
How do I save them?
615
00:39:15,206 --> 00:39:16,623
Remove those robes.
616
00:39:17,873 --> 00:39:21,373
Or what if I told you
that you could have power?
617
00:39:22,206 --> 00:39:24,040
And not of a meek sycophant,
618
00:39:24,123 --> 00:39:25,790
but as your own woman.
619
00:39:25,873 --> 00:39:26,956
This isn't real.
620
00:39:28,998 --> 00:39:30,873
[Ithlinne] Well, imagine if it were.
621
00:39:31,456 --> 00:39:34,915
[Emhyr and Ithlinne] Imagine
that you are the emperor, right now.
622
00:39:36,915 --> 00:39:40,206
[girl] The others' dreams were obvious.
623
00:39:41,123 --> 00:39:42,956
You thought you were special.
624
00:39:43,456 --> 00:39:44,290
But no.
625
00:39:44,998 --> 00:39:46,206
Yours was obvious too.
626
00:39:47,290 --> 00:39:48,331
Then make your ask.
627
00:39:49,290 --> 00:39:50,915
I would rebuild our forces.
628
00:39:51,956 --> 00:39:53,331
Strengthen our numbers.
629
00:39:54,206 --> 00:39:58,206
We are an empire, but the North…
the North is a league of many kingdoms.
630
00:39:58,290 --> 00:40:00,956
[Emhyr and Ithlinne]
And a large and unpredictable land.
631
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,623
[echoing] Even with numbers,
you'd be lost. You need friends.
632
00:40:06,123 --> 00:40:08,540
Allies that know this land
as if it were their own.
633
00:40:08,623 --> 00:40:10,790
No Northern Kingdom
would ally itself with us.
634
00:40:11,373 --> 00:40:12,956
- [whisper] No…
- No kingdom of men.
635
00:40:16,248 --> 00:40:17,790
Do you want salvation?
636
00:40:18,665 --> 00:40:22,873
[whispering] Then you're bringing back
the wrong elf.
637
00:40:26,790 --> 00:40:29,790
The first pure elf for years.
638
00:40:31,748 --> 00:40:34,040
A new hope for a brighter future.
639
00:40:34,123 --> 00:40:35,873
I've been with child before.
640
00:40:36,456 --> 00:40:37,540
None have come to term.
641
00:40:37,623 --> 00:40:38,706
But if it could?
642
00:40:39,206 --> 00:40:40,415
If I could help you?
643
00:40:41,081 --> 00:40:43,081
All you need to do is ask.
644
00:40:45,540 --> 00:40:47,040
You're not Ithlinne, are you?
645
00:40:47,123 --> 00:40:49,873
[distorted] Your ancestors' faith
was better than yours.
646
00:40:49,956 --> 00:40:51,915
[whispering echo] Better than yours.
647
00:40:51,998 --> 00:40:53,290
Then make your ask.
648
00:40:55,498 --> 00:40:56,415
What must I do?
649
00:40:58,081 --> 00:40:59,998
To see your child live,
650
00:41:00,790 --> 00:41:02,290
you must live first
651
00:41:02,873 --> 00:41:03,790
amongst men.
652
00:41:03,873 --> 00:41:05,706
[distorted ringing]
653
00:41:06,206 --> 00:41:07,331
Xintrea!
654
00:41:10,873 --> 00:41:12,248
[girl] You're no longer bound.
655
00:41:13,665 --> 00:41:15,956
Why haven't you thought
to portal yourself free?
656
00:41:19,081 --> 00:41:20,790
You've felt it since Sodden,
657
00:41:21,581 --> 00:41:22,456
haven't you?
658
00:41:23,915 --> 00:41:25,623
- [distorted] Or rather…
- [wind whistles]
659
00:41:25,706 --> 00:41:27,498
[girl and Ithlinne] …haven't felt it.
660
00:41:30,498 --> 00:41:33,623
But you'd rather be blind
than see the truth.
661
00:41:35,081 --> 00:41:37,081
Remember this lesson, Piglet?
662
00:41:39,248 --> 00:41:41,248
[wind gusting]
663
00:41:42,623 --> 00:41:43,956
[bird screeches]
664
00:41:44,790 --> 00:41:46,248
[distant crashing sounds]
665
00:41:50,915 --> 00:41:51,748
Zeilil eip.
666
00:41:54,248 --> 00:41:55,165
Zeilil eip.
667
00:41:57,915 --> 00:41:58,831
Zeilil eip.
668
00:42:00,331 --> 00:42:01,165
Zeilil eip.
669
00:42:01,248 --> 00:42:02,665
You blew it at Sodden.
670
00:42:04,248 --> 00:42:06,540
Fire is dangerous magic.
671
00:42:07,248 --> 00:42:08,456
Farewell, Chaos!
672
00:42:08,540 --> 00:42:10,331
What will she live for now?
673
00:42:11,831 --> 00:42:14,290
Zeilil eip. Zeilil eip.
674
00:42:15,831 --> 00:42:17,123
Move, damn it!
675
00:42:17,665 --> 00:42:19,081
Fucking parlor tricks!
676
00:42:19,165 --> 00:42:20,956
Yes, denial!
677
00:42:21,456 --> 00:42:23,665
[girl and Ithlinne] A tasty garnish.
678
00:42:35,540 --> 00:42:38,998
- I'm going to let you bake some more.
- [whispering echo]
679
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:43,123
I want your desperation crisp.
680
00:42:45,623 --> 00:42:49,206
You will beg me to take it from you.
681
00:42:50,248 --> 00:42:52,998
And I will.
682
00:42:58,831 --> 00:43:00,831
[creaking]
683
00:43:04,123 --> 00:43:05,665
[liquid running]
684
00:43:13,581 --> 00:43:15,373
[soft creaking]
685
00:43:26,248 --> 00:43:27,165
[sighs]
686
00:43:27,248 --> 00:43:28,873
[creaking and rumbling]
687
00:43:36,331 --> 00:43:37,623
[sounds fade]
688
00:43:38,331 --> 00:43:39,665
[grunting]
689
00:43:41,165 --> 00:43:42,456
[snorts]
690
00:43:42,540 --> 00:43:44,290
[creaking and shuffling]
691
00:43:44,373 --> 00:43:46,123
[skittering]
692
00:43:49,915 --> 00:43:50,873
[sounds fade]
693
00:43:56,790 --> 00:43:58,456
[grunts]
694
00:44:01,248 --> 00:44:02,706
[groans]
695
00:44:13,331 --> 00:44:14,915
[Geralt straining]
696
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,790
[screeching]
697
00:44:24,248 --> 00:44:26,123
[roaring]
698
00:44:27,665 --> 00:44:29,665
[gasping]
699
00:44:30,498 --> 00:44:31,831
[growls]
700
00:44:32,790 --> 00:44:33,706
Eskel?
701
00:44:33,790 --> 00:44:35,831
[panting] Geralt.
702
00:44:39,748 --> 00:44:41,456
[Eskel grunting]
703
00:44:45,165 --> 00:44:46,623
[groans]
704
00:44:50,248 --> 00:44:51,498
[growls]
705
00:44:52,415 --> 00:44:53,956
[yells]
706
00:44:58,748 --> 00:45:00,748
[roars]
707
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:16,873
Eskel!
708
00:45:25,665 --> 00:45:27,706
I came… back here.
709
00:45:29,873 --> 00:45:31,415
I knew something…
710
00:45:32,123 --> 00:45:32,956
Was wrong.
711
00:45:33,706 --> 00:45:35,956
- I don't know what happened.
- [groans]
712
00:45:37,540 --> 00:45:38,790
But I thought…
713
00:45:39,290 --> 00:45:40,956
I thought I could fight it.
714
00:45:42,456 --> 00:45:43,956
[groans]
715
00:45:45,206 --> 00:45:46,165
I thought…
716
00:45:46,956 --> 00:45:48,248
You could…
717
00:45:49,415 --> 00:45:50,456
Help…
718
00:45:51,331 --> 00:45:52,373
Me.
719
00:45:56,415 --> 00:45:57,831
[screeches]
720
00:45:58,415 --> 00:45:59,415
Vesemir.
721
00:46:05,373 --> 00:46:08,331
Should've known better than to bring
my whores to a witcher den.
722
00:46:08,415 --> 00:46:09,373
Danica, you fool.
723
00:46:10,331 --> 00:46:12,373
Stay here. Take cover.
724
00:46:12,956 --> 00:46:13,873
- [door slams]
- No.
725
00:46:14,415 --> 00:46:15,790
No, no, no. Lambert!
726
00:46:16,581 --> 00:46:19,956
Fuck this. I'm not dying here.
What's the quickest way out, girl?
727
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:23,790
There's stairs to the north of the hall,
a turret to the south… I don't know.
728
00:46:23,873 --> 00:46:25,748
- All right, come on.
- No.
729
00:46:25,831 --> 00:46:28,706
- We have to stay. Geralt...
- Geralt may be dead already!
730
00:46:30,331 --> 00:46:32,956
- Look, witchers fight. We run.
- [rumbling]
731
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:34,873
- [crashing]
- [gasping and screaming]
732
00:46:34,956 --> 00:46:36,331
Go. Go!
733
00:46:39,206 --> 00:46:41,040
- Go.
- [women crying]
734
00:46:45,915 --> 00:46:47,998
- [rumbling]
- What is this?
735
00:46:48,081 --> 00:46:49,081
It's Eskel.
736
00:46:49,706 --> 00:46:51,206
The leshy's infected him.
737
00:46:52,706 --> 00:46:53,915
That's not possible.
738
00:46:58,331 --> 00:46:59,498
- [creaking]
- [growls]
739
00:47:00,623 --> 00:47:01,915
[skittering]
740
00:47:03,998 --> 00:47:05,290
[clattering]
741
00:47:10,123 --> 00:47:11,248
[Geralt growls]
742
00:47:11,915 --> 00:47:12,790
[Eskel snarling]
743
00:47:15,415 --> 00:47:16,331
[Vesemir] The door! Go!
744
00:47:25,873 --> 00:47:26,956
[yells]
745
00:47:34,373 --> 00:47:35,581
[roaring]
746
00:47:42,748 --> 00:47:43,873
[screeches]
747
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:50,873
Eskel.
748
00:47:51,581 --> 00:47:52,623
We need time.
749
00:47:53,373 --> 00:47:54,331
We can save you.
750
00:48:03,706 --> 00:48:04,956
[strained] Eskel…
751
00:48:07,790 --> 00:48:09,873
Please… stop…
752
00:48:09,956 --> 00:48:11,456
- [snarling]
- [whimpers]
753
00:48:19,665 --> 00:48:21,040
[Eskel screeches]
754
00:48:21,873 --> 00:48:22,956
[screams]
755
00:48:24,165 --> 00:48:25,665
[roaring]
756
00:48:29,873 --> 00:48:31,456
[gasping]
757
00:48:45,790 --> 00:48:47,623
[Vesemir sighs]
758
00:48:50,165 --> 00:48:51,373
[sighs]
759
00:48:54,873 --> 00:48:56,498
You did what you had to do.
760
00:48:59,706 --> 00:49:00,915
[sighs]
761
00:49:11,498 --> 00:49:12,998
[whimpering]
762
00:49:16,915 --> 00:49:18,415
[voices calling]
763
00:49:30,665 --> 00:49:31,623
There you are.
764
00:49:32,581 --> 00:49:33,498
It's all right.
765
00:49:36,665 --> 00:49:37,540
You saw her too.
766
00:49:38,415 --> 00:49:39,706
Don't worry. You're free.
767
00:49:42,498 --> 00:49:43,415
You're going with them.
768
00:49:44,206 --> 00:49:47,456
Francesca claims the old gods want
an alliance between elves and Nilfgaard.
769
00:49:47,540 --> 00:49:50,081
- I agreed.
- Then you're both fools.
770
00:49:51,206 --> 00:49:52,998
You know that evil witch is no god.
771
00:49:53,081 --> 00:49:55,248
I know my faith brought me this far.
772
00:49:55,331 --> 00:49:58,665
- I'll see how much further it can take me.
- That sounded like ambition.
773
00:49:58,748 --> 00:50:01,498
- Impossible.
- Not as impossible as you finding meaning.
774
00:50:02,206 --> 00:50:04,456
- What did you ask for?
- [horse neighs]
775
00:50:04,540 --> 00:50:06,831
- An end to this nonsense.
- Oh, glib as ever.
776
00:50:06,915 --> 00:50:07,831
Uh...
777
00:50:08,623 --> 00:50:09,915
If she really is that evil,
778
00:50:10,748 --> 00:50:12,248
why did she let you go?
779
00:50:13,373 --> 00:50:14,831
[elves shouting]
780
00:50:18,498 --> 00:50:20,498
[thunder crashing]
781
00:50:21,748 --> 00:50:23,123
[sobs]
782
00:50:30,581 --> 00:50:31,748
[rats squeaking]
783
00:50:37,373 --> 00:50:38,248
[door opens]
784
00:50:46,831 --> 00:50:48,123
[Geralt groans]
785
00:50:52,415 --> 00:50:53,415
Is it over?
786
00:50:54,998 --> 00:50:55,831
We're safe now?
787
00:51:03,165 --> 00:51:04,415
Are you okay?
788
00:51:06,290 --> 00:51:07,123
I'm all right.
789
00:51:10,456 --> 00:51:11,456
Come with me.
790
00:51:29,331 --> 00:51:31,540
When I first came to Kaer Morhen,
791
00:51:33,623 --> 00:51:36,998
Vesemir said to me
that the world outside these walls
792
00:51:38,165 --> 00:51:39,665
is a dangerous place.
793
00:51:42,456 --> 00:51:44,456
[thunderclap]
794
00:51:49,915 --> 00:51:51,748
[Geralt] But times are changing,
795
00:51:53,415 --> 00:51:54,248
even here.
796
00:51:56,123 --> 00:51:57,831
[high-pitched ringing]
797
00:51:58,665 --> 00:51:59,873
Nowhere's safe now.
798
00:51:59,956 --> 00:52:01,206
[shouting in Elder]
799
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:02,873
[yelps]
800
00:52:02,956 --> 00:52:04,998
[Geralt] You can't run from the world.
801
00:52:06,415 --> 00:52:07,956
You can't hide from it.
802
00:52:09,248 --> 00:52:10,123
Eskel.
803
00:52:10,665 --> 00:52:12,248
- Eskel.
- For the brothers.
804
00:52:13,331 --> 00:52:15,831
But you can find power
805
00:52:16,540 --> 00:52:17,998
and purpose.
806
00:52:24,748 --> 00:52:27,248
A chance to survive the horror.
807
00:52:27,915 --> 00:52:29,498
[thunder crashing]
808
00:52:29,581 --> 00:52:31,331
[gasping and shouting in Elder]
809
00:52:34,456 --> 00:52:35,665
[gasps]
810
00:52:44,081 --> 00:52:45,456
[shouts in Elder]
811
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:48,331
[gasps]
812
00:52:53,123 --> 00:52:54,706
[sobbing]
813
00:53:00,081 --> 00:53:01,790
[screaming]
814
00:53:07,956 --> 00:53:09,206
[sobbing]
815
00:53:12,165 --> 00:53:13,831
[Geralt] This Continent…
816
00:53:14,540 --> 00:53:15,915
Was meant for no one.
817
00:53:17,873 --> 00:53:19,540
All you have to do, Ciri,
818
00:53:20,456 --> 00:53:22,206
is keep your sword close
819
00:53:22,748 --> 00:53:23,706
and keep moving.