He should’ve ignored this— should’ve turned a blind eye because it was none of his business —but he couldn’t. How could he turn away from someone in need? Wasn’t that why he became a Witcher in the first place— to help people?

A woman was being hoisted up by a noose— surrounded by three men shouting horrid insults at her —and he couldn’t help himself. He didn’t know what she had done, figured it couldn’t have been so bad with the way she fought to survive, and so he saved her.

He tries to leave quickly after doing so, not sparing a second glance as he sheaths his sword and climbs back onto Roach, but… she follows him— like a kicked puppy —and he doesn’t know why.