@stubbornstrumpet asked: ❝ i’ve lived through a whole dark age and three supposed end of days. ❞ (for Ciri)
Ciri feels the nice fabric of the dress she’s wearing, remembers when she could get something like this every day, when it was so normal she never thought twice about how non scratchy her fabric were, even the rougher ones from when she escaped the palace to go play with the children were soft. She’s still a bit unsure about this lady but there’s something about her, it almost reminds her of her grandmama, that sense that she could do anything she set her mind to, that armies would follow her if she just looked at them the right way.
She considers the words for a moment, thinks about them carefully before finding a reply. ❝ The end of days can be different for different people, can’t it? ❞ For her it felt like the world was ending when Cintra fell, when the man with the feather helmet took her. It felt like there was nothing else for her after that, only fear let her hold on to something resembling life. And fear can only sustain you so far. ❝ Maybe the end of days did happen, it just wasn’t what you expected from it. ❞







