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Jaskier waited for Geralt of to distance himself from the camp well enough, before shuffling off his sitting place atop a rather uncomfortable tree stump, positioning himself so that he was eye-level with the extremely nonplussed horse. Not, of course, that he wanted to shoo him from his own campsite, but how the hell else would he corner the man's horse? At Oxenfurt, Jaskier had, much to his vexation, learnt that the word ‘nonplussed’ had two meanings – the first being ‘unsure about what to say, think, or do’, and the second, ‘not bothered, surprised, or impressed by something’. It was almost a contranym, it caused him no end of frustration, and it was the perfect word to use in this scenario, because how the hell was one supposed to get a read on the complex emotional state of a horse? Nonplussed was right, because Jaskier couldn’t read Roach for shit, so he might as well have covered all his bases, instead. “So,” he began, and it was a good way to open a dialogue, very solid, “why are you a horse?” Or: When Jaskier finds Geralt and Roach at Posada, it's less of a first meeting, and more of a reunion.

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