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A time of contempt is approaching, Witcher, my friend, a time of great and utter contempt.
“Am I to pay for what I love with contempt for myself?
“Why should I have flinched? I could hear you aiming to miss.”
She watched girls weaving wicker baskets and concluded that there was nothing worse than work.
“May I kiss you? Right now, here, in front of everyone?” “No.”
His tone didn’t quaver, even though Lara Dorren aep Shiadhal looked at him from the portrait with Ciri’s eyes.
You’ll be destroyed by the approaching time of contempt.
pillow. “I had a reason to scream. So I screamed. It shouldn’t be suppressed. It would be unhealthy and unnatural. Hold me, please.”
But do you know when stories stop being stories? The moment someone begins to believe in them.
Falka’s blood will be born an avenger who will destroy the old world and build a new one on its ruins.”
Had it not been for the foolish scruples of the Witcher, and his impractical principles, many subsequent events would have run their course quite differently. Many events would probably have not taken place at all. And the history of the world would have unfolded in an alternative way.
You were my best pupil, Philippa Eilhart. I was always proud of you. But now I have nothing but contempt for you.”
my ugly little duckling.
Hold them in contempt, for at last the time of contempt is here! Contempt, revenge and death! Death to the entire world! Death, destruction and blood!
“An avenger will be born of my blood,” she cried. “From my tainted Elder Blood will be born the avenger of the nations and of the world! He will avenge my torment! Death, death and vengeance to all of you and your kin!” Only this much was she able to cry out before the flame consumed her. Thus perished Falka; such was her punishment for spilling innocent blood.
They were children of the time of contempt. And they had nothing but contempt for others. For them, only force mattered. Skill at wielding weapons, which they quickly acquired on the high roads. Resoluteness. Swift horses and sharp swords.
Because the one who is alone will perish;