Geralt realizes he has no choice but to surrender if there is any hope of surviving the encounter. Freixenet is in bad shape, but his only concern seems to be that Geralt find "the princess".Īs he tries to extract the large man from his hiding place, another arrow whizzes by narrowly missing the witcher's own head, then more. Locating its source, he discovers, much to his surprise, Freixenet. He finds a second body, an adult male, and then a third. He hurries his pace, hoping to catch up with the people he has been following and convince them to turn back. The boy, probably panicked, ran the wrong way, further into the dryad's domainĪnother shot. Like others who had suffered similar fates before, the scenario had likely been the same. The boy has been killed by an obviously expertly delivered arrow which can still be seen protruding from his skull.Įxperience quickly makes it clear to the witcher what has happened: the boy had obviously strayed into territory claimed by the dryads. While on his way to Brokilon to deliver a message to the queen of the dryads, Eithné, from King Venzlav of Brugge, Geralt stumbles upon the body of a boy, probably no more than fifteen. It is in this story that Geralt and Ciri, his law of surprise, are first introduced to one another. " The Sword of Destiny" (Polish: Miecz przeznaczenia) is a short story written by Andrzej Sapkowski and is the fifth story in Sword of Destiny.
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