Came upon this while reading the books before I play Witcher 2 the second time and then Witcher 3 for the first time :D. I just thought it was such a beautifully written scene I had to share it somewhere. (shouldnt have any spoilers).

‘Stop that. Don’t think about it and don’t talk about it. Instead . . .’
‘What, Yen?’
‘Love me.’
He embraced her. And touched her. And found her. Yennefer, in some astonishing way hard and soft at the same time, sighed loudly. The words they had uttered broke off, perished among the sighs and quickened breaths, ceased to have any meaning and were dissipated. So they remained silent, and focused on the search for one another, on the search for the truth. They searched for a long time, lovingly and very thoroughly, fearful of needless haste, recklessness and nonchalance. They searched vigorously, intensively and passionately, fearful of needless self-doubt and indecision. They searched cautiously, fearful of needless tactlessness.
They found one another, conquered their fear and, a moment later, found the truth, which exploded under their eyelids with a terrible, blinding clarity, tore apart the lips pursed in determination with a moan. Then time shuddered spasmodically and froze, everything vanished, and touch became the only functioning sense.
An eternity passed, reality returned and time shuddered once more and set off again, slowly, ponderously, like a great, fully laden cart. Geralt looked through the window. The moon was still hanging in the sky, although what had just happened ought in principle to have struck it down from the sky.
‘Oh heavens, oh heavens,’ said Yennefer much later, slowly wiping a tear from her cheek.
They lay still among the dishevelled sheets, among thrills, among steaming warmth and waning happiness and among silence, and all around whirled vague darkness, permeated by the scent of the night and the voices of cicadas. Geralt knew that, in moments like this, the enchantress’s telepathic abilities were sharpened and very powerful, so he thought about beautiful matters and beautiful things. About things which would give her joy. About the exploding brightness of the sunrise. About fog suspended over a mountain lake at dawn. About crystal waterfalls, with salmon leaping up them, gleaming as though made of solid silver. About warm drops of rain hitting burdock leaves, heavy with dew.
He thought for her and Yennefer smiled, listening to his thoughts. The smile quivered on her cheek along with the crescent shadows of her eyelashes.
‘A home?’ asked Yennefer suddenly. ‘What home? Do you have a home? You want to build a home? Oh . . . I’m sorry. I shouldn’t . . .’
He was quiet. He was angry with himself. As he had been thinking for her, he had accidentally allowed her to read a thought about herself.
‘A pretty dream,’ said Yennefer, stroking him lightly on the shoulder. ‘A home. A house built with your own hands, and you and I in that house. You would keep horses and sheep, and I would have a little garden, cook food and card wool, which we would take to market. With the pennies earned from selling the wool and various crops we would buy what we needed; let’s say some copper cauldrons and an iron rake. Every now and then, Ciri would visit us with her husband and three children, and Triss Merigold would occasionally look in, to stay for a few days. We’d grow old together, beautifully and with dignity. And should I ever get bored, you would play for me in the evening on your homemade bagpipes. Playing the bagpipes – as everyone knows – is the best remedy for depression.’
The Witcher said nothing. The enchantress cleared her throat softly.
‘I’m sorry,’ she said, a moment later. He got up on an elbow, leaned across and kissed her. She moved suddenly, and hugged him. Wordlessly.
‘Say something.’
‘I wouldn’t like to lose you, Yen.’
‘But you have me.’
‘The night will end.’
‘Everything ends.’
No, he thought. I don’t want it to be like that. I’m tired. Too tired to accept the perspective of endings which are beginnings, and starting everything over again. I’d like . . .
‘Don’t talk,’ she said, quickly placing her fingers on his lips. ‘Don’t tell me what you’d like and what you desire. Because it might turn out I won’t be able to fulfil your desires, and that causes me pain.’
‘What do you desire, Yen? What do you dream about?’
‘Only about achievable things.’
‘And about me?’
‘I already have you.’
He remained quiet for a long time, waiting until she broke the silence.
‘Geralt?’
‘Mm?’
‘Love me, please.’
At first, satiated with each other, they were both full of fantasy and invention, creative, imaginative and craving for the new. As usual, it quickly turned out it was at once too much and too little. They understood it simultaneously and once more made love to one another.
When Geralt had recovered his senses, the moon was still in its place. The cicadas were playing wildly, as though they also wanted to conquer anxiety and fear with madness and abandon. From a nearby window in the left wing of Aretuza, someone craving sleep yelled out, fulminating sternly and demanding quiet. From a window on the other side someone else, clearly with a more artistic soul, applauded enthusiastically and congratulated them.
‘Oh, Yen . . .’ whispered the Witcher reproachfully.
‘I had a reason . . .’ She kissed him and then buried her cheek in the pillow. ‘I had a reason to scream. So I screamed. It shouldn’t be suppressed. It would be unhealthy and unnatural. Hold me, please.’

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Beautiful, I read it on Spanish which is my native language (Awesome translation btw) before playing the three game and I loved it. All the saga, Baptims of fire, Sword of destiny and the last wish are my favorites, also the Witcher 3 is my favorite game ever.

Witcher dosn't have a good deep and complex story as the books have but the representation of the world and its characters is just bloody fantastic (except Dandelion (Jaskier)). You won't be dissapointed if you love the books, the sense of seeing with such beautiful visuals the locations of the books is incredible.

I hope you enjoy as much as I did the entire saga. (books and videogames) (¡Can't wait for the Netflix series!)

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For sure. :) One of my picks for Geralt (chief pick prolly) is Zach McGowan AKA Charles Vane from Black Sails. The dude can pull off the look, voice, face, and all the fighting, so I think he would be a great Geralt. Another one is Mads Mikkelsen which some people said might be too expensive to cast and also he is a bit older so he might not be able to do all the fighting. Eva Green for Yennefer, The rest no idea who I`d cast.

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i only played the games ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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You can, just move your eyes slowly from left to right, that is the first step, ok?

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I played the first two games before starting to read it. It brings a whole other appreciation to the work developers did when you meet the characters from the stories, or know which events they are talking about etc. (which there seem to be a lot of, from a few videos I`ve watched :D)

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Im assuming that was the Gay option representation. :P

And yeah I fucked up the poll and later couldnt figure out how to edit it.

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There are problems with poll

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Yeah and I couldnt figure how to edit it to allow all answers...

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I am actually saving to get the audiobook version of the novels.

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Dunno about the audiobook, but they are well worth reading.

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I knew about the books but really didn't care. Right after the witcher 2 prologue I understood that the game had al ot of stuff I had no idea.
Read the books and unterstood TW2 was more like a continuation of them than the first one. Loved it even more, the game and understood much better the political struggle is having on Temeria and the river.

Also, replaying TW1, never agan switched with Yaveinn. Scoiatael are scum.

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Played TW1 only once, neutral path. Played Witcher 2 with Iorveth. Yeah they kind are "lets fight racism with racism".

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I can empathyze better with Iorveth since he stopped being a scoiatael and joined... (can't remember her name) saskia?, and again there is a lot of greys with him but also with Roche.

But in TW1 you work with them, you join them, etc. never again

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