Maybe out on The Path, it's settling when he beds a man but it's never settling with Geralt. It's true, he does prefer women but Geralt has always been and will always be something special to him. And this, right now? Was something he'd been afraid he wouldn't get back after how things had been between them this winter. Sleeping beside Geralt last night had only sharpened this need for nostalgic intimacy more acutely, a dull ache in Eskel's chest (and lower, less noble parts).

There's just something so familiar about stealing a moment like this that it's a wholly different experience to when he goes with women in the world below the mountains. And he has to hold onto the thought that somebody they'll be able to enjoy each other as they once did, without having to be as careful due to Eskel's lingering injuries. He'd give anything to be able to have the other witcher properly, quick and and breathless and bruising.