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<i>It comes on a full moon...</i>

2
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<i>to feed.</i>

3
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<i>That's what Ma used to say.</i>

4
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When a wolf...

5
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crosses a maiden's grave.

6
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A pregnant girl who died before her time.

7
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That babe...

8
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starts growing...

9
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right in her belly.

10
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When it's big enough...

11
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that babe rips out.

12
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Only it ain't a babe no more.

13
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It's a monster.

14
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A vukodlak.

15
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I swear, Witcher, that's what got me.

16
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I swear I saw it.

17
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- I swear on my ma's grave, I saw it...
- Shh. Shh, shh.

18
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Three thousand orens. Up front.

19
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No!

20
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This... I definitely know.

21
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<i>♪ The vampiress bled ♪</i>

22
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<i>♪ As white as a sheet ♪</i>

23
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<i>♪ And yet her dead heart did beat</i> ♪

24
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<i>♪ Did beat</i> ♪

25
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The kikimora?

26
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Mm.

27
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Hmm.

28
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I don't recall the bard
singing of this one.

29
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Who would dare
try and rob you of your treasure?

30
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A woman?

31
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Princess.

32
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Were you in love?

33
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What's her name?

34
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When you live as long as I do,
all the names start to sound the same.

35
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Were destiny a kinder bitch,
a whore like me

36
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wouldn't have to settle for
her client's telltales.

37
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A friend of yours came through here
last month headed for Temeria.

38
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Friend?

39
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Another witcher.

40
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Mm. Blessed that prick
with my fullest efforts, too,

41
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- and he...
- What's in Temeria?

42
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- Do you not just hear me talking?
- Shouldn't you know

43
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when someone's pretending?

44
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It's been three nights.

45
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Pay up or get out!

46
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Temeria?

47
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It's got a pest problem.

48
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A few miners rounded up 3,000 orens
to have it killed.

49
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Your boy took the coin and ran.

50
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You hear me?

51
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Thank you... for...

52
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everything.

53
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Witcher!

54
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Hmm.

55
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What about the room?

56
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Don't judge me.

57
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I'll be back with payment in a few days.

58
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Anything happens to my horse...

59
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You don't scare me.

60
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Point me to Temeria.

61
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Years of attacks by this creature,
and the king does nothing.

62
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We must force his hand.
Lay down our picks...

63
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and refuse to work.

64
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Yeah.

65
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And a half-measure ain't gonna do!
We've got to move on.

66
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Plenty of work south of Sodden.

67
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My son...

68
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rest his soul...

69
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told me...

70
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in Nilfgaard...

71
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the king diddled whores
while his subjects starved.

72
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Then someone came.

73
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The Usurper.

74
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And he rallied the people,
and they took back what was theirs!

75
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Yeah!

76
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I say we follow their lead!

77
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You can't kill the vukodlak...

78
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so you decide to kill your king?

79
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Great plan.

80
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Another fuckin' witcher.

81
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Your kind already swindled us once.

82
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I take payment after the job is done
and for a third of the price.

83
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An apology...

84
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from my guild...

85
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to yours.

86
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And if you can't kill it?

87
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Then I die.

88
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Please.

89
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Everyone remain calm.

90
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Lower your weapons
and return to your homes.

91
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Do so quickly
and without further theatrics...

92
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and you have my word that our king
will not hear of this treason.

93
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Foltest commits treason.

94
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He hides in his winter castle
as we are eaten.

95
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Yeah!

96
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Mikal was a good boy.

97
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Revenge will not ease your pain.

98
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You know nothing...

99
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of my pain.

100
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Does Foltest have a plan?

101
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See this one to our borders.

102
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Temeria's had their fill... of witchers.

103
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Witcher.

104
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You can put down your sword.
I'm not here to hurt you.

105
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Says the witch hiding in the woods.

106
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Sorceress.

107
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Witch.

108
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Triss Merigold. I serve King Foltest.

109
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So he makes a show
of kicking me out...

110
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then sends his errand girl
to slip me some coin

111
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so I kill his monster.

112
00:11:00,625 --> 00:11:02,666
Not a very original plan for a king.

113
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It's my plan.

114
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My coin.

115
00:11:07,333 --> 00:11:09,750
And I don't want you to kill the beast.

116
00:11:09,833 --> 00:11:11,583
I want you to help me save it.

117
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Six years ago,

118
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stable hands started vanishing
at the castle above the city.

119
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Before long, citizens were disappearing
throughout all Temeria.

120
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Foltest's royal guards soon realized
the creature was coming from the crypt

121
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where the king's sister Adda is buried.

122
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Rumor has it she was having an affair
with a young man in town when she died.

123
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Was she pregnant?

124
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If she were, that would make her child
the sole heir to the throne

125
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as Foltest never married.

126
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The king fled the castle,
ignoring the rising death toll.

127
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After Nilfgaard overthrew their king,

128
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the Brotherhood
couldn't risk it happening again,

129
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so they sent me here three months ago
to cure the creature.

130
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Vukodlaks are freak mutations.

131
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- They can't be cured.
- Good thing it's not a vukodlak.

132
00:12:03,583 --> 00:12:07,208
Two thousand orens if you can tell me
what exactly killed these people.

133
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You didn't want the people to know
that it bested a witcher.

134
00:12:41,250 --> 00:12:43,916
And you let them believe
that he fled with their coin.

135
00:13:01,708 --> 00:13:03,708
You two clearly weren't acquainted.

136
00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:10,583
His heart's missing along with his liver.

137
00:13:11,958 --> 00:13:14,500
Only one creature I know
is that picky an eater.

138
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A striga.

139
00:13:17,041 --> 00:13:19,791
- Strigas are old wives' tales.
- They're very rare.

140
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The only way to make one
is through a curse.

141
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- Someone wanted Adda dead.
- Mm-hmm.

142
00:13:26,458 --> 00:13:30,166
But the curse didn't stop with Adda.
It turned her daughter into a monster.

143
00:13:30,250 --> 00:13:31,291
Her daughter?

144
00:13:31,375 --> 00:13:32,666
Strigas are female.

145
00:13:36,916 --> 00:13:38,375
This striga's a princess.

146
00:14:12,541 --> 00:14:14,375
Uh... can... can...

147
00:14:15,416 --> 00:14:16,750
Uh, can they do something?

148
00:14:17,541 --> 00:14:19,333
Uh, they... they're just watching.

149
00:14:57,500 --> 00:14:59,666
It was a nice touch with the applause.

150
00:15:02,291 --> 00:15:04,833
So how many more times
do you think we get to do this?

151
00:15:04,916 --> 00:15:05,958
I don't know.

152
00:15:07,750 --> 00:15:11,041
Soon you'll be off to your ruins,
dashing explorer.

153
00:15:11,750 --> 00:15:13,291
Part-time dashing explorer.

154
00:15:13,375 --> 00:15:16,041
Stregebor says
Temeria leans heavily on its mages.

155
00:15:16,166 --> 00:15:17,791
So maybe you'll be too busy for me.

156
00:15:17,875 --> 00:15:21,666
Or maybe you'll be too busy for me
once you get a taste of Aedirn revelry.

157
00:15:21,750 --> 00:15:24,833
King Virfuril is handsome. Allegedly.

158
00:15:26,041 --> 00:15:28,541
If I do a good job...

159
00:15:28,625 --> 00:15:31,125
I can persuade him
to give you access to our ruins.

160
00:15:32,791 --> 00:15:35,541
- Maybe we'll do this forever.
<i>- </i>Yeah.

161
00:15:36,791 --> 00:15:39,250
Well, after the initiation today,
we're in charge.

162
00:15:40,041 --> 00:15:42,541
We get to make the decisions,
be who we want to be.

163
00:15:47,916 --> 00:15:48,916
What's wrong?

164
00:15:49,708 --> 00:15:52,625
Fringilla and the others
see their ideal selves so clearly.

165
00:15:53,541 --> 00:15:56,291
They know exactly what they want
for their enchantments.

166
00:15:57,833 --> 00:15:59,500
Stop worrying so much.

167
00:15:59,583 --> 00:16:01,333
Easy for a Ban Ard boy.

168
00:16:01,416 --> 00:16:04,583
You dolts needn't change a single wrinkle
before heading to court.

169
00:16:15,833 --> 00:16:16,833
What do you want?

170
00:16:24,666 --> 00:16:28,000
Remember that scared girl
who tumbled at your feet in this cave...

171
00:16:29,083 --> 00:16:30,625
totally unaware of her power?

172
00:16:36,708 --> 00:16:39,375
I want to go back home to Aedirn
and never be her again.

173
00:16:44,166 --> 00:16:47,250
- You're bound for Aedirn?
- Yes.

174
00:16:51,291 --> 00:16:56,208
Let me be candid. You are a...
first draft of what nature intended, yes?

175
00:16:57,125 --> 00:17:00,708
Lucky for you, I'm the final artist.

176
00:17:13,041 --> 00:17:17,916
Every girl I enchant
leaves Aretuza a living work of art.

177
00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:19,000
Hmm?

178
00:17:20,125 --> 00:17:21,875
No matter how challenging the clay.

179
00:17:47,166 --> 00:17:48,583
Perfect for Aedirn.

180
00:17:48,666 --> 00:17:51,958
A gray dress assumes importance
without bald ambition.

181
00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:04,333
Ah. Not the final look. More a preview.

182
00:18:23,416 --> 00:18:25,708
There is not a person alive

183
00:18:25,791 --> 00:18:29,000
that does not look into the mirror
and see some deformity.

184
00:18:30,708 --> 00:18:31,958
Except for us.

185
00:18:33,791 --> 00:18:38,416
We remake ourselves on our terms.
The world has no say in it.

186
00:18:41,333 --> 00:18:42,333
Look.

187
00:18:43,958 --> 00:18:46,583
You can free the victim
in the mirror forever.

188
00:18:49,708 --> 00:18:51,125
I don't know where to begin.

189
00:18:53,958 --> 00:18:54,958
Close your eyes.

190
00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:02,541
I said close them.

191
00:19:05,791 --> 00:19:08,333
Imagine the most powerful woman
in the world.

192
00:19:09,416 --> 00:19:12,875
Her hair, the color of her eyes, yes...

193
00:19:14,875 --> 00:19:17,125
but also the strength of her posture.

194
00:19:18,875 --> 00:19:21,291
The poise of her entire being.

195
00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:26,000
Do you see her?

196
00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:34,500
Yes.

197
00:19:45,708 --> 00:19:46,791
Open your eyes.

198
00:19:50,625 --> 00:19:51,666
She is stunning.

199
00:20:04,458 --> 00:20:08,250
Miss Merigold, you were dispatched
to settle a family affair,

200
00:20:08,333 --> 00:20:11,291
not to enlist a mutant mercenary
for a game of sleuthing.

201
00:20:11,375 --> 00:20:14,541
This is no game, Captain.
Tonight is a full moon,

202
00:20:14,625 --> 00:20:17,208
and Geralt has already proved himself
to be invaluable.

203
00:20:17,291 --> 00:20:19,208
We believe we can cure the creature.

204
00:20:19,291 --> 00:20:20,500
You say she's a girl.

205
00:20:21,458 --> 00:20:23,916
Then you will refer to her
as Her Royal Highness.

206
00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,416
Segelin, I believe urgency

207
00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:30,000
warrants flexibility in court decorum.

208
00:20:31,041 --> 00:20:35,208
The witcher's theory is nonsense.
Princess Adda was the people's angel.

209
00:20:35,291 --> 00:20:37,750
- Who'd wish to murder her?
- What about her lover?

210
00:20:39,291 --> 00:20:44,125
Seditious rumors. Idle courtesans
trading out boredom for jealousy.

211
00:20:44,208 --> 00:20:46,250
Perhaps if you called off your guards,

212
00:20:46,333 --> 00:20:48,250
if we were able
to search the abandoned castle,

213
00:20:48,333 --> 00:20:50,708
we could find clues as to who cursed her.

214
00:20:50,791 --> 00:20:53,708
Except this witcher
would kill the princess as she sleeps,

215
00:20:53,833 --> 00:20:56,250
- and collect the miners' coin.
- Call her a princess.

216
00:20:57,333 --> 00:20:59,166
Call her a unicorn if you'd like to.

217
00:21:00,125 --> 00:21:02,791
She grew inside Adda,
feeding on her petrified womb.

218
00:21:02,875 --> 00:21:04,750
- Have you no respect?
- Mutating.

219
00:21:05,541 --> 00:21:07,958
Growing for years
till she got so hungry...

220
00:21:09,458 --> 00:21:11,250
she was forced to slither out.

221
00:21:12,333 --> 00:21:16,875
Rotten muscle, bent bones,
two spidery legs,

222
00:21:16,958 --> 00:21:21,166
claws dragging in the dirt.
An overgrown abortion.

223
00:21:21,250 --> 00:21:22,625
Enough.

224
00:21:22,708 --> 00:21:24,458
- Your Highness?
- Leave.

225
00:21:47,041 --> 00:21:48,166
Hey!

226
00:21:48,250 --> 00:21:49,500
Open the door!

227
00:21:50,166 --> 00:21:53,625
Open this door! Protect the king!

228
00:21:57,875 --> 00:21:58,875
Witcher!

229
00:22:03,416 --> 00:22:07,875
- Who's the princess' father?
- My men will kill you, Witcher.

230
00:22:08,666 --> 00:22:11,250
Hmm. It's funny.

231
00:22:12,458 --> 00:22:15,916
You learn that your sister was murdered,
and you didn't even flinch.

232
00:22:17,916 --> 00:22:20,416
But the moment
I mention the girl's father...

233
00:22:23,291 --> 00:22:24,708
Why were you never married?

234
00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,291
You are speaking to a king.

235
00:22:32,375 --> 00:22:33,750
That is exactly my point.

236
00:22:34,708 --> 00:22:36,583
Why not produce your own heir?

237
00:22:36,666 --> 00:22:39,625
Why not kill the striga
and avoid this revolt?

238
00:22:41,083 --> 00:22:42,333
Why drag this all out?

239
00:22:45,208 --> 00:22:47,208
Between you and me...

240
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,750
who is the striga's father?

241
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:07,375
I remember hearing stories
about witchers when I was a child.

242
00:23:09,666 --> 00:23:10,875
Is it true what they say?

243
00:23:12,750 --> 00:23:16,333
That the mutations
that grant you your... abilities

244
00:23:16,416 --> 00:23:18,000
also erase your emotions?

245
00:23:19,416 --> 00:23:20,416
Must be.

246
00:23:20,500 --> 00:23:22,500
'Cause only a man devoid of all heart

247
00:23:22,583 --> 00:23:24,791
could accuse a brother
of bedding his murdered sister

248
00:23:24,875 --> 00:23:26,375
while urging him to kill her.

249
00:23:33,708 --> 00:23:35,166
Leave Temeria.

250
00:23:37,208 --> 00:23:38,208
Never return.

251
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,958
Cintra continues their animosity
towards our organization.

252
00:23:56,041 --> 00:23:58,208
Don't tell me
they're employing druids

253
00:23:58,291 --> 00:24:00,250
or worse... fortune tellers.

254
00:24:02,333 --> 00:24:06,125
King Dagorad has banned mages from Cintra,
God knows why.

255
00:24:06,208 --> 00:24:07,958
I've heard rumors he's taken ill.

256
00:24:08,041 --> 00:24:12,250
Now, if the king dies, perhaps his heiress
will be more pliable. Princess...

257
00:24:12,333 --> 00:24:14,541
Calanthe? Good luck with that.

258
00:24:14,625 --> 00:24:16,958
Word is she's even more stubborn
than her father is.

259
00:24:17,916 --> 00:24:19,000
How fares Nilfgaard?

260
00:24:19,916 --> 00:24:24,208
King Fergus is proving to be
an effective and excitable young king.

261
00:24:24,291 --> 00:24:25,375
Horny, she means.

262
00:24:25,458 --> 00:24:28,833
Spending the kingdom's money on women
as his people starve to death.

263
00:24:28,916 --> 00:24:31,125
Fringilla will be in Nilfgaard
by week's end.

264
00:24:31,208 --> 00:24:33,541
She will bring sanity and bread
to the people.

265
00:24:33,625 --> 00:24:36,750
Your girl is... With all due respect,

266
00:24:36,833 --> 00:24:40,625
your niece is only capable
of doing what she's told.

267
00:24:43,291 --> 00:24:46,500
No ambitious mage wants to be assigned
anywhere south of Sodden.

268
00:24:47,291 --> 00:24:49,333
But Nilfgaard needs correcting.

269
00:24:52,875 --> 00:24:57,041
Perhaps we consider sending someone there
with a bit more... spine.

270
00:24:57,125 --> 00:24:59,291
Stregobor, did you have anyone in mind?

271
00:24:59,958 --> 00:25:02,291
What about your hunchback protégé?

272
00:25:02,916 --> 00:25:05,083
How's her... spine?

273
00:25:06,250 --> 00:25:09,958
We agreed
Yennefer would thrive in Aedirn.

274
00:25:10,041 --> 00:25:12,250
King Virfuril
prefers mages from his kingdom,

275
00:25:12,333 --> 00:25:16,000
- and Yennefer was born in Vengerberg.
<i>- </i>Oh, we'd be spitting in Dagorad's face

276
00:25:16,083 --> 00:25:18,583
if we send Yennefer
to their biggest trade partner.

277
00:25:19,458 --> 00:25:24,666
The only thing Cintra hates
more than mages is... elves.

278
00:25:29,708 --> 00:25:31,333
Yennefer's of elven blood?

279
00:25:32,916 --> 00:25:33,916
Quarter elf.

280
00:25:35,083 --> 00:25:36,750
Watch a Cintran do that math.

281
00:25:36,833 --> 00:25:39,666
Let's not model our wisdom
on prejudice and paranoia.

282
00:25:39,750 --> 00:25:41,541
Prejudiced or not, you can't deny

283
00:25:41,625 --> 00:25:44,375
Cintra has operated
outside our influence far too long.

284
00:25:44,458 --> 00:25:48,833
Unchecked kings and queens
lead to rebellions. Massacres.

285
00:25:48,916 --> 00:25:51,375
It's the reason this chapter was formed.

286
00:25:51,458 --> 00:25:53,166
Still afraid of Falka, are you?

287
00:25:55,041 --> 00:25:57,958
And you, you spare your niece her duties?

288
00:25:58,041 --> 00:26:01,291
Not enough fragrance in Toussaint
to take the stench off that nepotism.

289
00:26:09,125 --> 00:26:13,916
Let the Chapter vote, then.
I'll even recuse myself.

290
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,250
All in favor of Yennefer to Nilfgaard
instead of Fringilla?

291
00:26:23,750 --> 00:26:25,333
Your Excellence, it's an honor.

292
00:26:30,333 --> 00:26:32,791
The honor is mine.

293
00:26:36,208 --> 00:26:37,541
King Fergus chose this.

294
00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:41,125
- Not me.
- King Fergus of Nilfgaard?

295
00:26:42,375 --> 00:26:44,208
What are you talking about?

296
00:26:45,916 --> 00:26:46,916
Uh...

297
00:26:51,333 --> 00:26:53,083
I demand an audience with the Chapter.

298
00:26:55,875 --> 00:26:58,041
I handle court assignments, Yennefer.

299
00:26:59,333 --> 00:27:01,708
- Not the Chapter.
- You promised me Aedirn.

300
00:27:02,333 --> 00:27:04,375
New items came to light
which led me to believe

301
00:27:04,458 --> 00:27:06,416
that you would be a better fit
for Nilfgaard.

302
00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:09,000
There's no power in puppeting fools,

303
00:27:09,083 --> 00:27:12,250
especially one who'd sooner
fondle his sorceress than listen to her!

304
00:27:13,666 --> 00:27:15,666
I don't think new items came to light.

305
00:27:17,041 --> 00:27:18,541
I think the Chapter overruled you.

306
00:27:19,791 --> 00:27:22,416
Is that it? Yeah?

307
00:27:22,500 --> 00:27:24,833
The all-powerful sorceress
Tissaia de Vriess

308
00:27:24,916 --> 00:27:26,625
knocked down from her glass pedestal.

309
00:27:29,625 --> 00:27:30,625
'Twas your blood.

310
00:27:34,583 --> 00:27:36,375
Efforts in Cintra prevent the Brotherhood

311
00:27:36,458 --> 00:27:39,208
from placing a mage with elven blood
in Aedirn's court.

312
00:27:43,583 --> 00:27:45,083
How could you tell them?

313
00:27:47,791 --> 00:27:48,791
I did not.

314
00:27:51,291 --> 00:27:52,291
Stregobor did.

315
00:27:53,125 --> 00:27:54,125
Divine the rest.

316
00:28:26,541 --> 00:28:28,208
How many more hours?

317
00:28:28,291 --> 00:28:29,291
Too many.

318
00:28:31,708 --> 00:28:33,875
You were told to leave Temeria.

319
00:28:33,958 --> 00:28:34,958
But come on.

320
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,083
These views.

321
00:28:38,916 --> 00:28:40,291
Are you going to kill her?

322
00:28:44,583 --> 00:28:46,333
I don't want the miners' coin.

323
00:28:46,416 --> 00:28:47,458
Or mine, apparently.

324
00:28:48,791 --> 00:28:50,083
What is this girl to you?

325
00:28:51,500 --> 00:28:52,541
Why do you care?

326
00:28:54,125 --> 00:28:55,125
You first.

327
00:28:55,791 --> 00:28:58,208
I saw how Foltest and his boy
spoke to you.

328
00:28:58,291 --> 00:29:00,083
Why help those who won't listen?

329
00:29:04,708 --> 00:29:06,875
I'm sure someone as legendary as you

330
00:29:06,958 --> 00:29:09,916
has already figured out several ways
to get past Segelin's guards.

331
00:29:23,791 --> 00:29:24,791
Move away.

332
00:29:35,875 --> 00:29:38,708
Temeria reeks of secrets.
I could sense them.

333
00:29:40,041 --> 00:29:42,458
Just like I could these bodies
before we entered.

334
00:29:44,750 --> 00:29:46,291
I imagine you sense them, too.

335
00:29:52,083 --> 00:29:55,666
Foltest and Adda. What happened to them?

336
00:29:58,166 --> 00:30:01,500
Not answering questions
is a pillar of your brooding charm.

337
00:30:08,875 --> 00:30:10,708
Pretty sure Foltest is the father.

338
00:30:29,250 --> 00:30:30,416
Adda's bedroom.

339
00:30:37,125 --> 00:30:38,750
Do you think he cursed her?

340
00:30:39,708 --> 00:30:40,708
Foltest?

341
00:30:43,083 --> 00:30:44,083
Maybe.

342
00:31:40,208 --> 00:31:41,208
Geralt.

343
00:31:42,833 --> 00:31:43,833
Letters.

344
00:31:44,666 --> 00:31:47,041
From Queen Sancia,
Foltest and Adda's mother.

345
00:31:50,416 --> 00:31:53,458
A Queen Mother
cursing her own children for their affair.

346
00:31:54,875 --> 00:31:56,500
This could destroy the throne.

347
00:31:57,666 --> 00:31:59,916
Sancia wanted Adda
to get rid of the child.

348
00:32:00,541 --> 00:32:02,791
It seems she refused. Repeatedly.

349
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,625
And now she's taken that curse with her
to the grave.

350
00:32:06,708 --> 00:32:08,708
You've served the family for decades.

351
00:32:08,791 --> 00:32:11,166
Was Sancia involved in
dark sorcery of any kind?

352
00:32:11,250 --> 00:32:13,083
No. Of course not.

353
00:32:13,833 --> 00:32:15,625
What was your relationship to Adda?

354
00:32:16,416 --> 00:32:19,916
Well, I like to think that she saw me
as a confidant.

355
00:32:21,541 --> 00:32:23,250
And protector, even.

356
00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:27,041
We used to talk at great length
about her troubles.

357
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,208
She could be very naive.

358
00:32:30,583 --> 00:32:32,291
She ever mention her brother?

359
00:32:33,625 --> 00:32:34,958
Certainly not like this.

360
00:32:35,791 --> 00:32:36,791
She was ashamed.

361
00:32:37,875 --> 00:32:39,083
Or she was frightened.

362
00:32:40,958 --> 00:32:42,708
What if the relationship was not...

363
00:32:44,375 --> 00:32:45,375
consensual?

364
00:32:46,208 --> 00:32:47,208
Hmm.

365
00:32:48,541 --> 00:32:51,541
You think he raped Adda,
then cursed the child to cover it up?

366
00:32:51,625 --> 00:32:53,541
Well, kings have done more for less.

367
00:32:55,208 --> 00:32:56,208
True.

368
00:32:57,916 --> 00:33:00,000
There's only one wrinkle, though.

369
00:33:06,458 --> 00:33:09,083
- Your scent was on her sheets.
- Geralt.

370
00:33:09,166 --> 00:33:10,166
Old ones...

371
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,166
and new ones.

372
00:33:12,250 --> 00:33:14,541
What would I be doing
in a dead girl's bed?

373
00:33:19,250 --> 00:33:22,500
I smelled what you were doing.

374
00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:37,375
Foltest had no right!

375
00:33:38,541 --> 00:33:41,750
He seduced Adda. Abused his position.

376
00:33:42,750 --> 00:33:45,166
He was always nagging her
for attention.

377
00:33:46,083 --> 00:33:47,416
Always nagging!

378
00:33:48,041 --> 00:33:49,250
But he didn't love her.

379
00:33:50,875 --> 00:33:53,625
- I did.
- You cursed the woman you loved?

380
00:33:53,708 --> 00:33:55,958
I cursed Foltest, not her.

381
00:33:56,041 --> 00:33:58,083
Countless are dead
because of your jealousy.

382
00:33:58,166 --> 00:34:00,250
Countless are dead because of Foltest!

383
00:34:01,750 --> 00:34:03,875
He spoiled Adda with his seed.

384
00:34:03,958 --> 00:34:06,208
He refuses to kill this striga.

385
00:34:06,291 --> 00:34:10,416
He lies to his people.
And yet you wag your finger in my face.

386
00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:13,875
If you wanted him to suffer,
you could have just exposed the affair.

387
00:34:13,958 --> 00:34:15,083
And hurt Adda?

388
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,000
Never.

389
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,208
Her memory will not be sullied,
not while I'm alive to protect it.

390
00:34:24,416 --> 00:34:26,291
Tell us how to lift the curse.

391
00:34:28,458 --> 00:34:29,458
No.

392
00:34:31,875 --> 00:34:36,416
Foltest will watch
as Temeria turns against him.

393
00:34:37,791 --> 00:34:40,458
Just as he turned Adda against me.

394
00:34:41,416 --> 00:34:42,458
Hmm.

395
00:34:45,250 --> 00:34:46,250
Unh.

396
00:34:47,083 --> 00:34:51,500
I, Sabrina Glevissig,
offer myself to the Brotherhood

397
00:34:51,583 --> 00:34:55,125
to make good on the promise
of the Spheres.

398
00:34:56,541 --> 00:35:00,625
To not place power before virtue.

399
00:35:00,708 --> 00:35:03,166
- To respect...
<i>- Where is she?</i>

400
00:35:03,833 --> 00:35:05,541
<i>You didn't hear?</i>

401
00:35:05,625 --> 00:35:08,541
...for as long
as my flesh endures.

402
00:35:08,625 --> 00:35:12,583
Welcome to the Brotherhood of Sorcerers.
You may perform your enchantment.

403
00:35:17,083 --> 00:35:18,083
Yenna.

404
00:35:19,291 --> 00:35:20,625
Yenna, what are you doing?

405
00:35:21,791 --> 00:35:23,041
Undoing what you've done.

406
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,958
I'll have my father sign this deed
declaring me his natural-born daughter

407
00:35:28,041 --> 00:35:29,041
and not an elven bastard.

408
00:35:29,125 --> 00:35:32,375
Do you really think this slip of paper
will fool the Chapter? Yenna...

409
00:35:32,458 --> 00:35:33,916
Get your hands away from me!

410
00:35:36,458 --> 00:35:37,458
It was a test.

411
00:35:38,458 --> 00:35:42,083
It was, uh, an idiotic manipulation.
Forgive me.

412
00:35:42,166 --> 00:35:44,333
Can your apology save me from Nilfgaard?

413
00:35:45,375 --> 00:35:46,416
Take me to Aedirn?

414
00:35:47,291 --> 00:35:50,333
- Do they make me more than my blood?
- And you think this will?

415
00:35:53,125 --> 00:35:54,125
Fine.

416
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,000
Tell them you lied.

417
00:35:56,791 --> 00:35:59,958
Say you concocted this slander
to gain the favor of your precious rector.

418
00:36:00,041 --> 00:36:03,458
It's too late. You missed initiation.

419
00:36:03,541 --> 00:36:05,916
The enchantments are done.
Think clearly.

420
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,958
You're so smart, aren't you?
You know everything.

421
00:36:09,041 --> 00:36:12,291
I'm sorry. I had no way of knowing
how the information would be used.

422
00:36:12,375 --> 00:36:14,458
- But neither did you.
- Do not turn this on me.

423
00:36:14,541 --> 00:36:17,791
We're pretending your precious rectoress
never ordered you to spy on me?

424
00:36:21,291 --> 00:36:23,083
Look, I-I can fix this.

425
00:36:24,750 --> 00:36:28,833
The Brotherhood... they've offered me a seat
on the Research Chapter. Me.

426
00:36:29,875 --> 00:36:32,666
Okay? Neither of us have to go to court.

427
00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:38,375
- You can't be serious?
- We can travel the continent together.

428
00:36:39,166 --> 00:36:42,250
We can be together.
We can forge a whole new destiny.

429
00:36:45,416 --> 00:36:46,541
Ah.

430
00:36:47,875 --> 00:36:51,250
A life holding dustpans
while you brush off forgotten bones?

431
00:36:53,416 --> 00:36:54,625
That's not destiny.

432
00:36:57,333 --> 00:36:58,833
It's slow suicide.

433
00:37:03,083 --> 00:37:04,083
You don't mean that.

434
00:37:04,166 --> 00:37:07,875
Would it frighten you to know you're
not privy to every one of my thoughts?

435
00:37:14,750 --> 00:37:16,000
You are patronizing me.

436
00:37:22,458 --> 00:37:24,291
I was going to Temeria for you.

437
00:37:24,375 --> 00:37:25,708
That was your decision.

438
00:37:25,791 --> 00:37:28,875
You really think I wish to waste my days
gossiping at court?

439
00:37:28,958 --> 00:37:30,458
That's your fetish, not mine.

440
00:37:30,541 --> 00:37:32,375
A true man would state his desires.

441
00:37:32,458 --> 00:37:35,041
Well, how would I recognize them? Huh?

442
00:37:35,125 --> 00:37:38,708
You get off on disguising yours
as my own. Oh.

443
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,166
Stregobor was right.

444
00:37:41,250 --> 00:37:44,083
That's exactly why you're here,
exactly what she taught you.

445
00:37:44,750 --> 00:37:45,750
Everyone's a pawn.

446
00:37:45,833 --> 00:37:47,375
I will not be schooled by a man

447
00:37:47,458 --> 00:37:50,083
who pimps the world
as some romantic adventure.

448
00:37:51,541 --> 00:37:52,958
My world is cruel.

449
00:37:53,041 --> 00:37:54,791
Unpredictable.

450
00:37:54,875 --> 00:37:56,750
You enter, you survive, you die.

451
00:37:58,416 --> 00:38:01,583
- You know, victimhood is not your color.
- Nor heroism yours.

452
00:38:03,541 --> 00:38:06,583
You're just angry because
you lost your chance to be beautiful!

453
00:38:09,541 --> 00:38:10,791
I want to be powerful.

454
00:38:10,875 --> 00:38:13,333
Seen and adored with everyone watching.

455
00:38:13,416 --> 00:38:15,041
It is what I'm owed.

456
00:38:15,125 --> 00:38:18,208
No amount of power or beauty
will ever make you feel worthy of either.

457
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,291
Let's take a rest, dear.

458
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,833
Foltest, leave your sister be.

459
00:39:18,916 --> 00:39:20,666
Show Madame de Vriess some respect.

460
00:39:22,750 --> 00:39:24,666
What wonderful children, Your Highness.

461
00:39:24,750 --> 00:39:25,750
Thank you.

462
00:39:30,916 --> 00:39:32,250
Your Excellence.

463
00:39:36,333 --> 00:39:38,875
An Aedirnian would surely
have had better footing.

464
00:39:48,041 --> 00:39:51,000
You claim to be
quite the artist. Prove it.

465
00:39:52,416 --> 00:39:55,583
- The Chapter would have my head.
- Do they already have your cock?

466
00:40:02,791 --> 00:40:05,750
- I'll need time to prepare the herbs.
- That won't be necessary.

467
00:40:05,833 --> 00:40:08,375
Don't be foolish.
You can't be awake during the procedure.

468
00:40:09,666 --> 00:40:10,666
I can.

469
00:40:40,166 --> 00:40:42,583
Oh so quick to violence.

470
00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:47,458
Strange, considering what Miss Merigold
told me about you.

471
00:40:48,333 --> 00:40:51,000
- And what's that?
- She told me...

472
00:40:52,833 --> 00:40:53,833
to trust you.

473
00:41:03,916 --> 00:41:04,958
Will this work?

474
00:41:06,541 --> 00:41:07,625
Answer honestly.

475
00:41:13,625 --> 00:41:14,625
I don't know.

476
00:41:17,333 --> 00:41:18,333
Will my...

477
00:41:22,875 --> 00:41:23,958
will my daughter...

478
00:41:25,041 --> 00:41:26,041
be normal?

479
00:41:26,750 --> 00:41:28,166
She'll need special care.

480
00:41:29,333 --> 00:41:30,583
She's lived as an animal.

481
00:41:31,375 --> 00:41:32,750
All she's ever known is...

482
00:41:33,666 --> 00:41:35,666
rage and hunger.

483
00:42:18,375 --> 00:42:19,375
What is this?

484
00:42:21,083 --> 00:42:22,250
For the princess.

485
00:42:24,083 --> 00:42:25,583
If I can lift the curse.

486
00:42:27,750 --> 00:42:28,750
A gift.

487
00:42:32,125 --> 00:42:35,666
You're giving me this
because you do not expect to see morning.

488
00:42:35,750 --> 00:42:38,125
This isn't my first time
trying to save a princess

489
00:42:38,208 --> 00:42:39,625
who others see as a monster.

490
00:42:40,750 --> 00:42:42,416
What happened to that princess?

491
00:42:45,541 --> 00:42:46,541
I killed her.

492
00:42:52,625 --> 00:42:56,750
I did try to resist, at first, with Adda.
We both did.

493
00:42:59,125 --> 00:43:02,833
For all it brightens,
love casts long shadows.

494
00:43:06,583 --> 00:43:07,583
I envy you.

495
00:43:09,708 --> 00:43:10,750
To live...

496
00:43:11,625 --> 00:43:13,541
and never have to fall in love.

497
00:43:52,708 --> 00:43:53,708
Witcher.

498
00:43:54,875 --> 00:43:56,208
This is madness!

499
00:43:57,500 --> 00:44:00,208
What are we doing here? What's happening?

500
00:44:01,291 --> 00:44:02,541
How can I lift the curse?

501
00:44:04,333 --> 00:44:05,333
No.

502
00:44:06,250 --> 00:44:07,541
This is not right.

503
00:44:08,625 --> 00:44:11,000
Foltest must pay for what he did.

504
00:44:13,750 --> 00:44:15,166
Explain that to her.

505
00:44:18,625 --> 00:44:20,833
Carry me out. I order you.

506
00:44:22,041 --> 00:44:23,583
Tell me how to lift the curse.

507
00:44:28,666 --> 00:44:31,250
Sh-She was hiding from the Brotherhood.

508
00:44:33,166 --> 00:44:35,208
She sold me a lamb.

509
00:44:35,291 --> 00:44:38,166
Sh-She told me
to wait until a full moon,

510
00:44:38,250 --> 00:44:40,000
to wait and then to kill it.

511
00:44:41,333 --> 00:44:43,458
And then I recited some silly chant.

512
00:44:45,541 --> 00:44:49,416
And then I bathed in the lamb's blood
until sunrise.

513
00:44:49,500 --> 00:44:54,666
Until the rooster crowed three times.
And that is all.

514
00:44:54,750 --> 00:44:58,583
I swear. I swear.
Now please let us leave.

515
00:44:58,666 --> 00:45:00,291
What was the chant?

516
00:45:00,375 --> 00:45:02,708
It was years ago.

517
00:45:08,708 --> 00:45:10,250
It was Elven. Um...

518
00:45:29,750 --> 00:45:32,708
Wh... what is it? The...
I... I've done what you've asked.

519
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:35,833
What more can I do?

520
00:45:35,916 --> 00:45:38,583
Nothing, unless you can
keep a striga out of her crypt

521
00:45:38,666 --> 00:45:40,750
until a fucking rooster
crows three times.

522
00:45:44,208 --> 00:45:46,375
You're gonna have to fight her till dawn.

523
00:45:56,750 --> 00:45:59,375
Leave my eyes. These as well.

524
00:46:10,708 --> 00:46:13,083
There is a cost to all creation.

525
00:46:14,458 --> 00:46:16,166
A sacrifice that is always made.

526
00:46:18,833 --> 00:46:19,916
To be reborn...

527
00:46:21,625 --> 00:46:22,791
you will bear no more.

528
00:46:23,916 --> 00:46:25,291
Do you understand?

529
00:46:28,708 --> 00:46:29,708
Good.

530
00:47:02,250 --> 00:47:05,166
No. No. Come back here.

531
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,208
Please. Please!

532
00:47:08,416 --> 00:47:11,791
You'd leave a man
bound to die in such indignity?

533
00:47:11,875 --> 00:47:13,041
You're not a man.

534
00:47:47,375 --> 00:47:48,875
Please forgive me.

535
00:47:51,208 --> 00:47:52,375
It was Foltest.

536
00:47:53,541 --> 00:47:55,125
It was his fault.

537
00:47:58,625 --> 00:48:01,083
I loved your mother.

538
00:49:23,541 --> 00:49:24,541
Fuck.

539
00:58:12,291 --> 00:58:13,666
Yennefer of Vengerberg.

540
00:58:13,750 --> 00:58:15,666
My apologies, Your Excellence.

541
00:58:15,750 --> 00:58:18,416
Please allow me to remove
this misguided girl.

542
00:58:18,500 --> 00:58:21,750
Now, what sort of a king refuses a dance
with one of his subjects?

543
00:58:22,666 --> 00:58:23,666
Vengerberg?

544
00:58:24,375 --> 00:58:27,250
Are you aware that I'm in the market
for just such a mage?

545
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:30,083
On your lead, Your Excellence.

546
00:59:42,583 --> 00:59:43,875
<i>Geralt...</i>

547
00:59:45,416 --> 00:59:46,416
<i>Geralt.</i>

548
00:59:51,375 --> 00:59:52,375
Renfri.

549
00:59:52,708 --> 00:59:55,291
<i>The girl in the woods
will be with you always.</i>

550
01:00:02,833 --> 01:00:04,833
<i>People call you a monster too.</i>

551
01:00:07,375 --> 01:00:08,625
Renfri.

552
01:00:08,708 --> 01:00:09,875
<i>You choose...</i>

553
01:00:09,958 --> 01:00:11,916
<i>You choose...</i>

554
01:00:21,166 --> 01:00:23,958
Your scars. You heal quite nicely.

555
01:00:25,416 --> 01:00:26,833
Your will to live is strong.

556
01:00:27,958 --> 01:00:29,208
The princess?

557
01:00:29,291 --> 01:00:32,333
I've arranged for her to stay a while
with the Sisters of Melitele.

558
01:00:32,416 --> 01:00:33,416
But...

559
01:00:34,250 --> 01:00:35,250
I...

560
01:00:36,333 --> 01:00:38,250
- Her neck?
- She'll heal, too.

561
01:00:41,041 --> 01:00:43,583
You should know
Foltest issued a statement.

562
01:00:43,666 --> 01:00:47,416
The honorable Lord Ostrit
gave his life to slay the vukodlak.

563
01:00:47,500 --> 01:00:49,666
Miners are gathering ore for a statue.

564
01:00:52,083 --> 01:00:55,083
Anyone else would've killed the princess.

565
01:00:55,166 --> 01:00:56,333
You chose not to.

566
01:00:56,416 --> 01:00:59,208
I'll take my coin now.

567
01:01:00,041 --> 01:01:01,791
I need to get back to my horse.

568
01:01:06,083 --> 01:01:07,083
Who's Renfri?

569
01:01:10,375 --> 01:01:14,083
Hers was the only name you uttered
over and over in your sleep.

570
01:01:16,291 --> 01:01:17,291
My coin.

571
01:01:19,375 --> 01:01:21,000
So that's all life is to you?

572
01:01:22,375 --> 01:01:23,583
Monsters and money?

573
01:01:23,666 --> 01:01:25,083
It's all it needs to be.

574
01:01:31,708 --> 01:01:34,166
You say this is all life is to you,

575
01:01:34,250 --> 01:01:37,666
but there is a vortex of fate
around all of us, Geralt,

576
01:01:37,750 --> 01:01:40,375
growing with each and every one
of our choices...

577
01:01:41,416 --> 01:01:43,583
drawing our destinies closer.

578
01:02:02,916 --> 01:02:05,083
I feel something out there waiting for you.

579
01:02:07,625 --> 01:02:08,625
Something more.

580
01:03:13,125 --> 01:03:14,125
Features.

581
01:03:16,916 --> 01:03:18,250
<i>Features.</i>

582
01:03:19,416 --> 01:03:20,625
Features!

583
01:03:20,708 --> 01:03:22,500
Features! Features!

584
01:03:23,416 --> 01:03:25,541
Features! Features!

585
01:03:30,125 --> 01:03:31,333
Wha...

586
01:03:40,291 --> 01:03:42,250
Features!

587
01:03:43,875 --> 01:03:46,916
Features! Features!

588
01:04:02,333 --> 01:04:04,291
<i>Features.</i>

589
01:04:04,375 --> 01:04:05,875
<i>Features.</i>

590
01:04:05,958 --> 01:04:07,791
<i>Characteristics. Features.</i>

591
01:04:08,958 --> 01:04:10,625
<i>Features.</i>

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