“You’ll have to stay in the castle, dear child.” Calanthe cut her off. “Prepare the court should it seem like we’re losing. The gaurds are already aware that you need to be evacuated should the fight sour. This is your duty as the Lion Cub of Cintra.”
Ciri’s eyes blazed with anger, but she nodded curtly anyway. “I won’t have to. You’ll win.”
“Maybe we will. Maybe we won’t. But the ballads will be extraordinary either way,” Jaskier said with a boyish grin that lit his entire face up.
“Ah yes. Of course you’re thinking of ballads right now,” Eist remarked playfully, shoving Jaskier’s shoulder.
“I am a bard, after all.”
“A magical bard,” Ciri remarked.
The people of Cintra would spread the word first. Of the thunderous marching of Nilfgaard on their capitol. Of Cintra’s Last Stand.
They would tell any travelers who passed through their gates in the following weeks, months, years, that their kingdom was saved by one True Bard with fiery hatred and sorrow in his heart for Nilfgaard. They would tell them that the Phoenix of Song, Sir Dandelion, razed General Cahir’s army to the ground. Emerged from the flames Remade, Other. Hen Ichaer.
Words: 5832, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jaskier | Dandelion, Calanthe Fiona Riannon, Eist Tuirseach, Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Ermion | Mousesack, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg
Relationships: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion, Jaskier | Dandelion & Eist Tuirseach Friendship, Calanthe Fiona Riannon & Jaskier | Dandelion Friendship, Ermion | Mousesack & Jaskier | Dandelion Friendship, Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon & Jaskier | Dandelion, Background Calanthe Fiona Riannon/Eist Tuirseach
Additional Tags: Jaskier | Dandelion Loves Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Non-Human Jaskier | Dandelion, Jaskier | Dandelion has Elder Blood, Canon? I don't know here lmfao, Magical Jaskier | Dandelion, Pre-Slaughter of Cintra (The Witcher), Slaughter of Cintra (The Witcher) Fix It, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Not Canon Compliant, Headcanons Everywhere, Song: Burn Butcher Burn (The Witcher), Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia Hears Burn Butcher Burn, (From a different Bard), OOC Characters Probably?, This is my first witcher fanfic, no beta we die like renfri, Unless my cousin counts as a beta reader
