The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)

by Andrzej Sapkowski

There are fewer and fewer monsters? And I? What am I?

Because I’ve understood that the sun shines differently when something changes, but I’m not the axis of those changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn’t going to do anything. We’ve got to accept facts, elf. That’s what we’ve got to learn.”