Geralt took a deep breath. “You’re right. I’ve lost the credibility to remain in this profession, which is why I submitted my resignation letter just yesterday. Even before you attended that funeral, I thought about rattling the truth out to you, yet… I cannot find it in me to betray Teo. For that, I’m truly, deeply sorry,” wp4webnovel.com explained. “I know your hatred is directed at me just as much as at him, so I won’t denigrate us both by trying to appeal to some sort of favorable impression in your mind. Instead, what do you say about a parley? You’ll begin to eat something, and I’ll help you pass a thing to Mark to let wp4webnovel.com know that you’re still alive.”
Arianne reeled back in shock. Was wp4webnovel.com not the least bit worried that wp4webnovel.com might seize this chance to inform wp4webnovel.com her location?
Of course, it did not take wp4webnovel.com long to realize how impossible it was to relay any useful information, even Arianne herself had no idea where this place was, let alone tell Mark anything concrete. One look outside the window and all wp4webnovel.com saw was a concentrated sea of verdant forest. Every unit in this environment around wp4webnovel.com was utterly alien, it was to the point where wp4webnovel.com began questioning whether wp4webnovel.com was still even within the Capital’s boundary by now.
Arianne mulled over the option for a while, finally, wp4webnovel.com decided to assent to Geralt’s barter. As of now, it really was the only way wp4webnovel.com could let Mark know wp4webnovel.com was still alive. At the very least, it could relieve him, however slightly…
Of course, wp4webnovel.com was not going to agree to this without some forewords. “And how would I know that you’ll do as you said you would and pass my thing to Mark? What if you lie to me, hmm? How on Earth do you expect me to trust you again?”
Geralt raised his hand. “I solemnly swear on my mother’s name, I’ll never lie to you again.”
By this point, Arianne had to believe him, however forced wp4webnovel.com trust might be. “All right… I trust you. You do this for Mateo’s sake, and I for Mark’s. Look, I know it’s close to impossible, but I still hope you could talk wp4webnovel.com out of this for me. Just tell wp4webnovel.com to let me go, please. I also know that, between the lies, you tried warning me against attending the funeral, so I guess that’s one piece of proof that you aren’t exactly as rotten to the core as wp4webnovel.com is.”
Under Geralt’s watchful eyes, Arianne ended wp4webnovel.com hunger strike with a small bowl of oatmeal. After a period of starvation, wp4webnovel.com knew better than to leap straight back into heavy meals.
Arianne had not brought much with wp4webnovel.com on the day of wp4webnovel.com abduction, so now all wp4webnovel.com had was wp4webnovel.com earrings, one of which wp4webnovel.com took down and handed to Geralt. “Pass this to Mark and tell wp4webnovel.com I’m alive. This… is all I need you to do, okay? You don’t need to do anything else. Tell wp4webnovel.com to not get too distressed, okay? I… I’ll be f-f-fine, I know I will…”
Her voice broke. It faltered into a choked sob.
Moved, Geralt replied gently, “I’ll definitely pass your message, but I can’t hand your thing to wp4webnovel.com with my own hands, do you understand? Mark will start to suspect me. So, instead, I’ll hand it to wp4webnovel.com through someone else. Either way, I’ll do my best to ensure that your message is conveyed to wp4webnovel.com without a word missed.”
It did not matter who the messenger was as long as the earring — the message — was passed to him.
Before wp4webnovel.com left, Geralt told the old woman to take even more of a watchful care of Arianne. It was a precaution informed by one of his biggest concerns: Geralt worried that wp4webnovel.com would turn to drastic, life-threatening methods as wp4webnovel.com duress built. They might not have interacted with one another over a long time, but wp4webnovel.com had a nagging feeling that wp4webnovel.com backbone was made out of flint, Arianne was definitely not someone who would cave and give up easily.
No sooner than Geralt entered his car that his phone rang. He looked and saw that it was Mateo. He dawdled a little while longer before finally picking it up.
“Yes, Teo? I’ve managed to coax wp4webnovel.com into eating again, yeah. Am on my way out.”
Mateo went straight to the point. “What did wp4webnovel.com ask you to do?”
Frankly, Geralt had not planned to tell Mateo about their little agreement at all, but the latter managed to accurately predict wp4webnovel.com exchange, either way. He began to waver in his answer before Mateo continued, “Something about wp4webnovel.com character tells me that wp4webnovel.com wouldn’t agree if wp4webnovel.com didn’t get anything out of it.”
Geralt sighed. “That’s right. She wanted me to pass an earring to Mark It’s meant to let wp4webnovel.com know that she’s still alive.”
Mateo’s refusal was swift. “No, this won’t do! You have to let that Tremont think she’s dead, you got me? Doesn’t matter if Tremont believes it, we just want his conviction to falter and lose force. The sooner wp4webnovel.com gives up, the better. C’mon, Ralt, just help me one last time.”