"When the wandering fire
Strikes the heart of stone
Will you follow?"

It has the cadence of a verse, and she recites it as one.

"Will you leave your home?
Will you leave your life?
Will you take the Longest Road?"

Kim shakes her head as she finishes bandaging Ciri's side.

"Don't be sorry. Your Hunt is different from the one I know, the one that-- well."

She breaks off there, and there's sorrow in her voice and in the clear gray eyes.

"But the relentlessness, that's very much the same."