The Witcher (TV)
Ban Ard A'baeth
by LenaLawlipop
"Do you know where we are?" he asked, quietly. Jaskier couldn't bring himself to speak, and Geralt seemed to interpret it as a no. "This place is called Ban Ard A'baeth. That might ring a bell?" Of course it did. Jaskier looked at the valley, extending in front of him, endless, infinite. At the mountains, surrounding them, almost a circle around them. At the balustrade around them, shielding them from a fall to their deaths from the peak they had walked up to during those hours of darkness. When he looked up, Jaskier's gaze was met with the roof of a wooden gazebo. It looked old, but clean. Jaskier was sure someone nearby cleaned it often, and probably repaired it as well. When he turned around, he saw Geralt, already half turned on his bench, observing him. The sunrise was nearly upon them, and the timid first rays of light of the day reflected in his amber eyes, in his slitted pupils. "Geralt," he whispered again. "This is Ban Ard A'baeth?"