After the mess that was the meeting in the park, Geralt had been thinking things over. Brooding, probably, if you asked Jaskier, but this is a situation that perhaps merits the rumination. And, after some time to let tempers cool, he is able to brood objectively about what had been said. His conversation with Claude had started off reasonably well, considering that it had been on the topic of horses and wyvern, something that they had mutual interest in, but had gone to shit by the end. Not quite as badly as things had gone to shit between Claude and Jaskier, though, to be fair, there was far less to lose.
The crux of it is thus-- Claude hadn't been wrong in chafing under Geralt's unfair expectations of him. And though they had parted with Claude no longer angry at him, he has learned that not being angry isn't the same as having a matter resolved. Leaving things as they are is like leaving a task half-finished.
The course forward, then, is simple enough. He will need to speak to Claude and give him an apology, as he had to give Jaskier an apology after his poor behavior on the Mountain. Though Geralt is no better with words than he had been in the past, Claude is much the same as Jaskier in that he needs words-- this isn't the kind of apology that can be given as he would with his brothers, where they'd scrap over it and a black eye or bloody nose later, everything would be fine again.
He goes to the house that Claude shares with the other members of his... harem traveling party, arriving in the morning, but late enough that most people should be up and about at their days. He shouldn't be drawing anyone out of their beds at this hour-- and he also would prefer it if Felix and the rest were already out for their training. They undoubtedly would know about what had transpired, but Geralt preferred to catch Claude by himself.
It bodes well, then, that Claude answers the door.
"Claude," he says, which is about as close to a greeting as you get with Geralt. "If you've time, I'd like to speak with you."
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a few days after the 4th wall debacle
Date: 2021-07-11 11:39 pm (UTC)The crux of it is thus-- Claude hadn't been wrong in chafing under Geralt's unfair expectations of him. And though they had parted with Claude no longer angry at him, he has learned that not being angry isn't the same as having a matter resolved. Leaving things as they are is like leaving a task half-finished.
The course forward, then, is simple enough. He will need to speak to Claude and give him an apology, as he had to give Jaskier an apology after his poor behavior on the Mountain. Though Geralt is no better with words than he had been in the past, Claude is much the same as Jaskier in that he needs words-- this isn't the kind of apology that can be given as he would with his brothers, where they'd scrap over it and a black eye or bloody nose later, everything would be fine again.
He goes to the house that Claude shares with the other members of his...
haremtraveling party, arriving in the morning, but late enough that most people should be up and about at their days. He shouldn't be drawing anyone out of their beds at this hour-- and he also would prefer it if Felix and the rest were already out for their training. They undoubtedly would know about what had transpired, but Geralt preferred to catch Claude by himself.It bodes well, then, that Claude answers the door.
"Claude," he says, which is about as close to a greeting as you get with Geralt. "If you've time, I'd like to speak with you."