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“Doesn’t matter”

We turned quiet, both of us looking at the blanket of stars One streaked across the sky, a trail of light shining behind it His body had warmed the blanket that was draped over us both, and that made it easy for my tired eyes to close, to fall asleep with him next to me

On the second day, I was sore Really sore

I’d never ridden a horse so long And I’d never slept on the ground the night afterward either

As if he didn’t experience the same discomfort, Huntley didn’t mention it, and he climbed back on that horse, ready for another day Queen Rolfe and Geralt and Mace were the saain

The mountains remained on our left, and the landscape started to thin out into open fields with green grass, weeds, and occasionally flowers The air was still cold, but at least noasyour nose every time you took a breath

It was too challenging to talk on the ride, so we didn’t say anything, and I sat behind hiht, had a er dinner, and slept hard because ere so tired The third day was more of the same, and I was relieved this trip was only a couple of days rather than weeks

I kneere close to our destination e approached enorues away With the height of a mountain, they must have taken decades to complete

“Is that it?” I said into his ear

“Yes”

The gates were attached to a rocky outcropping, the rest of the city hidden from view by the stone It was a lot more fortified than the outpost, which was surrounded by a sih so a yeti couldn’t climb over

I wondered if they had yetis out here

Geralt pulled a flag froht red, the color of blood

That ates because they slowly started to move

A queen should be escorted by an entire army, not just three men and a woman asn’t allowed to carry weapons, but maybe that made her trek across the open safer since she would look like a nobody instead of a somebody

“Yetis aren’t going to be able to get inside there…”