All The Way Down

'Eskel is dutiful, honour-bound, does not mourn his earlier life. Geralt is idealistic, determined and, with twice the mutations, eerily deathly. They are the prime of their cohort and will represent the school well. Vesemir is afeared nonetheless because there has been one thing both have never managed to go without: each other. Not a day has passed that the two have not spend adjoined by the hip. In training, in meditation, in class, in sleep. They do not seem concerned at the prospect of separation, but Vesemir knows them better than they yet know themselves. They will suffer for it and badly.'