When it All Comes Together

Ivar refused to acknowledge Warritt's advances until he could make it back from his first year as a Witcher. That was the only thing that would make him a Witcher instead of that wide-eyed boy Ivar remembered staring at him from across the yard. Warritt nearly doesn't make it back. At that moment, when Ivar doesn't want to close the gates and bar Warritt from Gorthur Gvaed for the winter, he realizes he cares more than he thought.