Geralt firmly tightened his grip on the reins, and the mare snapped her hooves, her horseshoes ringing on the stones, and continued to prance backwards.The motto was, for some unknown reason, omitted from some translations of the book, including the English and French translation. The witcher’s bay mare danced, pulled her head, and bared her teeth, trying to spit out the bit. The darkening sky was suddenly shattered with a streak of forked lightning in the South, a hollow echo of distant thunder rolled across the wall of the forest.

For a moment it hung, suspended in the air, waving its sweeping tail fins before falling heavily into the roaring foam. “It is beautiful here.” A great dark trout tried to jump over the threshold of the waterfall. Over the knotweed, bushes shimmered with green hues, looking brown and ocher on the background of spruce trees, which seemed to be sprinkled with silver powder. Both banks were lined in a carpet of knotweed, among which a dipper bustled, splashing and proudly exposing the white ruffles on her neck. Ribbons of crystal clear water poured over the edge of the escarpment in a gentle arc, falling into a roaring and foaming cascade among the rocks, as black as onyx, before breaking onto them and disappearing among the white surf, which poured into an vast sheet of water so transparent that you could see every pebble, every braid of green seaweed waving in the current against a background of multicoloured mosaic. I would like to do some tests.’ Fringilla shook her head slowly, her green eyes narrowing. It seems that Cahir has been pulled into something terrible, something that began when he was still riding around on a stick pretending it was a horse. Fringilla, Emhyr has not been looking for this girl for three years, but much longer. ‘A lock of hair from a six year old girl. Would realize because he was…’ ‘A lock of hair,’ interrupted Assire. Could he have expected Emhyr would spot the fraud at first sight? Because he would realize.

Why? After all his disappearance had to awaken suspicion. But Cahir has disappeared without a trace. He would have been the one to bring the double to Emhyr. That he was used.’ ‘If he had, they would have done so until the end. I will not rule out that it was unconsciously. So there is a conspiracy and Cahir has been drawn into it. As you yourself have said, someone arranged for the fake princess to be delivered to Loc Grim. Emhyr is angry, but he does not send anyone to torture and death for no reason. But this will not have any influence on the issue of Cahir. Was sent there, found nothing but scorpions and vultures.’ ‘I would not have expected anything else from Xarthisius.

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