magic shenanigans (tm) where Geralt gets hit with a spell or curse that makes him feel whatever another person feels when their eyes meet
and it’s annoying (and upsetting) for sure to feel the waves of fear or trepidation or even disdain from the people who pay him, who serve him his food, who pass him in the street and he ends up just avoiding eye contact all together
but then he runs into Jaskier and the bard, of course, won’t let himself be avoided and he asks what’s wrong and he steps up and he looks at him so closely and... nothing
Geralt feels nothing
no wave of emotion, no foreign impulse, it’s all as it was. like it always is when they’re standing this close, close enough to hear his heartbeat, to see the specks of grey in blue eyes
nothing? Jaskier feels nothing for him, after everything, after all these years, all of those songs, not even friendliness? a certain regard? he’s just thoroughly ambivalent towards Geralt’s existence?
what he misses, of course, is the obvious: he doesn’t feel his feelings shift not because Jaskier feels nothing, it’s because he feels the same
