00:28You
00:37You
01:10Who may I assist you?
01:21Need some armor
01:31No
01:33Wish I had victorious
01:34To come
01:34I wasn't expected today
01:38Got you
01:41If you're running
02:11Let's go.
02:34Let's go.
03:08Let's go.
03:13Let's go.
03:15Let's go.
03:29So long.
03:43Looks like rain.
03:46Cut two months' throats last week and they refused to treat me.
03:49Let's go.
03:51Let's go.
03:54Let's go.
03:54Let's go.
03:58Let's go.
04:26Let's go.
04:27Let's go.
04:29Don't play me for a fool.
04:31You'd been beating them for years.
04:33Finally they'd had enough and fled.
04:35Sound about right?
04:43They ran from you, didn't they?
04:53They ran from you, didn't they?
05:05Let's go.
05:08Let's go.
05:11Let's go.
05:15We need to talk.
05:17Let's go.
05:19Let's go.
05:23Let's go.
05:24Let's go.
05:28Let's go.
05:48Let's go.
06:00Let's go.
06:00Let's go.
06:00Let's go.
06:00Let's go.
06:03Let's go.
06:03Give whatever you wish.
06:04Give whatever you wish.
06:05But she was always the apple of my eye.
06:08She had the run of the place.
06:09Ask anyone.
06:11She'd ride the horses, hunt with the men.
06:15At times join them on their rounds.
06:17And they'd send for her when I flew into a rage.
06:21For only she could calm me.
06:24Make it sound like she led a charmed life.
06:27If that's the case why'd she run?
06:30I'd hardly need you if I knew.
06:38Your wife, how'd she make you angry?
06:41Too much salt in the soup?
06:43Socks never darned?
06:46Twenty years we've known each other.
06:49She's seen me drunk and sober.
06:51She was there to greet me when I returned the victor.
06:54She was there to patch me up in defeat.
06:58Like no other, she knew where to press, where to pinch, so it would hurt.
07:05You beat her for that?
07:07For criticizing you?
07:09Oh, Witcher, you haven't a clue, have you?
07:13Well, perhaps I shall tell you about it one day.
07:18One day, but not today.
07:26You knew they had run away from the start?
07:29Yes, I knew.
07:32Why didn't you tell me?
07:33Wasted my time.
07:35Say I had.
07:37Say I'd said I had troubles.
07:39Couldn't control my wife, my daughter.
07:42What kind of flaccid prick would you take me for?
07:55Gotta admit, I do think you're a prick.
07:57Not because you couldn't control them, but because you drove them away.
08:02What?
08:03Don't play the idiot.
08:04You gave them no choice.
08:07Anna, and I.
08:10It wasn't as it seemed.
08:13Seems.
08:19All right, I'm all ears.
08:21Tell me what happened, the truth this time.
08:26I'd been soaking myself three days straight.
08:30Anna came to me, said they were leaving.
08:32I begged them to stay.
08:35She refused to hear it.
08:39I tried to stop her.
08:41She wriggled like an eel.
08:44We struggled.
08:45She fell.
08:48Last blasted thing I remember.
08:51Woke up in the morn, breeches heavy with me own piss.
08:55A large bump on my head.
08:58Sadly, they were gone.
09:02Know what that's like, Witcher?
09:05No.
09:06How the fuck could you?
09:08I was left with nothing.
09:11Nothing!
09:12The wine.
09:12Only the bottle.
09:15The wine.
09:15Only the bottle.
09:35Tamara present for all this? She see you quarrel?
09:39Through the doorway, perhaps. She didn't enter the room. Shame, too. Things might have turned out differently. The sight of
09:49her always calmed me.
09:56Signs of a fight in the room. Hole in the wall, wine all over the landing. Was that you?
10:02Aye. We tussled. She tried to whack me on the noggin with a candlestick, but kept missing. Hit the wall
10:10and the pillar instead.
10:12I staggered backwards onto the table, spilled the wine, slipped and tumbled. Anna used that moment to flee. She rushed
10:22down the stairs, still clutching that damn candlestick.
10:26I caught her on the landing. We fell. I thought I had her. Then she turned and smacked me in
10:34the head.
10:35I blacked out. Don't know what happened next. When I came to, I was alone.
10:45What happened next?
10:48Next? It only got worse.
10:53I awoke at sunset, not knowing how many days had passed. Thought it was all a plowing, drunken nightmare.
11:01And then I went to the bedchamber. But Anna was not there. Instead, there was blood everywhere.
11:09I knew she'd miscarried. My breath short, my throat locked. I neared the bed and saw it.
11:23It lay there. A tiny thing. Defenseless. On bloodied sheets. Dead. And it was my doing.
11:41Maybe you're doing, maybe not. But that amulet she wore could be important. Or maybe the fact that she lost
11:47it.
11:50What did you do with a child?
11:54What was I to do? I took it out and buried it.
11:59Just like that?
12:01Damn you. I gave no thought to a funeral. It was a horror. I wanted it to end.
12:08That child had been my dream. I told Anna, a little one, our little one, to make things right.
12:15What? Yet she died before she could be born.
12:20Understand, Witcher? My child was dead.
12:30Get hold of yourself. Men like you, when they break down, look downright pathetic.
12:36You're a heartless bastard.
12:38Hm. Mutations worked then. But here's the good news. Your dead child might help us find the one who's still
12:45alive. And your wife.
12:47What? How?
12:50Sometimes miscarried fetuses, if they don't get a proper burial, turn into botchlings.
12:57Into... fucking what?
13:05A cursed creature that draws strength from killing pregnant women. Once it's strong enough, it attacks those who scorned it.
13:13But how... how does it know?
13:16Blood ties.
13:17They're a strong bond. A bond I want to use to find your family.
13:23How?
13:24One of two ways. Legends claim you can bury a botchling under the family's threshold, perform a ritual, and turn
13:30it into a lubberkin.
13:32That's a sort of, uh, hob. A guardian spirit that could lead me to your family.
13:38And the other way?
13:41We kill it and draw some blood. Take that to the peller and he does the rest.
13:46Do not kill my child. It's suffered enough already. Lift the curse that it may finally rest in peace.
14:03Whatever we do, we gotta find the botchling first.
14:07I'll show you where I buried her. And I'll dig the grave at my threshold.
14:13If it turns out we can't transform the botchling into a lubberkin, they can bury us in it. Handy either
14:18way.
14:25The sooner we resolve this, the better. Best do it tonight, at midnight.
14:30Then wait here with me. Near midnight, I'll take you to where I buried her.
14:36Get word to the common folk.
14:38I ought to stay in their homes tonight and draw a line of salt outside their doors.
14:43And try to sober up.
14:46Do I take a shovel?
14:48To dig up the grave?
14:51Take it.
14:52You'll need it, but not for that.
14:55But not for that.
14:56You'll need it.
14:59Andру use the understrike.
15:00You'll need it.
15:01You'll need it, but not for that.
15:10You'll need it!
15:10You
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