Geralt looked at Celia, there was still so much about her he did not know.
"Celia."
"Yes?" She answered turning and facing him. He had never really looked at her eyes.
"Who was your father? Because I doubt we share a father with your eyes that color."
"We do, it is a mutation, mother said it was a bad omen. Proving that we were siblings. She cast me out when I was but ten years old. She could no longer handle my lack of control of my magic but refused to send me to be properly trained. She finally felt that I was a lost cause after I killed a boy for forcing himself upon me."
"You killed a boy? How old were you?"
"8. He was 14. He felt I deserved to learn about being a woman. I was a child."
"In some ways maybe you would have been safer had I known about you sooner."
"I searched the roads and towns, when I heard tales of you being there I would look for more. By the time I was 16 I still barely had control of my magic. And I never had a horse I walked everywhere."
Geralt sat down next to her and let her talk, he knew she wanted for a while to tell her story.
"When I was 17 I had come so close to finding you, I had heard you had been injured and badly, I wanted so badly to help you, the closer I came to where you were the weaker I became. I could go no further and passed out. I woke in a strange womans home. When I looked around I found she was a mage and she had heard me in my sleep call your name. She told me you had been gone from there for three days. I had just missed you."
"You felt it?"
"The closer I got to you if ever you were injured I felt it. But the moment you were injured by that creature that princess. I became upset that again I had missed you. The mage calmed me down and told me if I was meant to find you I would. I told her you didnt even know I existed."
"I think I started to."
"At 20 again I came close to finding you, another near miss, another time you were a day or two a head of me. And by this time I started not only carrying a bow but a sword and a dagger. Men would see me and were none to kind about it. I was called a whore once, shoved against a wall and nearly raped but I drove my dagger into his throat without a second thought. Another came at me I then made his head explode, which I at the time I didnt realize I could do. I was gaining control of my magic."
"And ?"
"I found you finally at the age of 24. After searching for you since I was 10 years old. Again a child cast out because of how I looked."
"Mother dropped me off on the doorstep of Kaer Morhen. Without a second thought. So believe me I know the feeling."
"At least she left you somewhere. I was left to fend for myself on the street as a child."
"This is true. You will have scar where you were injured. But it healed nicely. Are you ready to move again? I have a monster to get."
"Sure. I am getting better at my magic. But when it comes your monsters I let you deal with those yourself"
"Alright." He said to her. He lifted her onto Roach and climbed up behind her and they were off to find his newest monster.