An old one, not often invoked. It's a payment for a great deed like saving someoneโs life, where you can lay claim to something which the indebted doesn't yet possess or know they possess.
I didn't know I was Geralt's child surprise until... until my grandmother was dying. When she told me to go find him because he was my destiny, just like I was his.
I'm sorry to hear of your grandmother, but I am glad that you found Geralt.
And this claim he has upon you-- does he become your guardian? A mentor or teacher? [he's mildly worried she's STUCK in this arrangement, but the way she talks about geralt doesn't seem to imply that, happily...!]
[Good. That's very good. She's a bold, independent girl, but even Ciri shouldn't have to care for herself alone. She'd mentioned a grandmother, but nothing about her birth parents-- so as far as Yujin is concerned, Geralt is the girl's father.]
Then your father would be proud to hear of all you did on the planet. That I know for certain.
( there's a bright spark of warmth in her chest at those words. partly because she agrees. partly because it's nothing yujin needs to say. he doesn't need to get on her good side. he doesn't gain from it. but... they've both been somewhat honest with each other, right? about people mattering. about homes. so that matters. )
... Thank you. I... don't know that your important people would all know to be proud of you, but they should be too.
I'm fairly sure not everyone would have gone leaping through portals with me. On tree limbs thicker around than we are.
[They're words he means wholeheartedly, too: he does, perhaps more than before, still believe in her bravery.]
Oh, they'd at least be amused to hear of the story: I know my daughter would be shocked. If Sholmes ever makes his way here, he'll be jealous he couldn't join us on that little adventure.
Naruhodo and Asogi are with us on the Ximilia and safe, at least. Naruhodo was the young man I called while we were mid-flight. [you know. the one you accidentally swore at, ciri.]
Lawyers do all sorts of things, really, from preparing documents such as wills all the way up to arguing in a criminal trial. It's really a rather diverse line of work. Naruhodo in particular is a defense attorney: he advocates for a person accused of a crime. As for the final voice, depending on where you are located, that might be either the judge or the jury.
Naruhodo is new to the profession, but I do believe he will be one of our brightest one day. Japan will need that. Our criminal justice system is in its infancy and sorely needs the guidance.
Monarchies with active ability to be highest decision making office. Not that things get to them all that often, but they can and do pass biggest judgements, as they choose.
Mm, it's felt that way to me, too. Like it's a struggle for people to hold power without falling into thinking you know best, or should be allowed to do as you wish without consequence. Just because you're stronger.
[It's obvious that Ciri's intelligent and perceptive despite her young age. But there's something about the way she speaks about this that feels almost... personal.
Capable as she is? Yujin does worry for her.]
It sounds as though it's something you're familiar with. Are you facing a war, in your home world?
Endless wars, it feels like. There's more than one happening, but the bigger one... has been on pause for a little. Since the last big push that left so many dead. It'll start again. Other ones have been happening, so I hear, but not as big as that one. Yet.
A civil war occurred in my country when I was a bit younger than you are now. But Japan is merely a small nation in a much larger world. There are, it seems, countless small wars occurring in every corner of the globe... Every country wants to stake its claim on as big a piece of the world as it can get.
[Including Japan, he thinks uneasily.]
In light of what we just experienced, it all feels even more futile.
Isn't life what we make of the time ahead of death? Unknowing when that ending comes, only that it will.
( she sounds more philosophical than she feels. the loss of a world, of all the lives, sapient and not, on it... it's still too exhausting, the process of saving who they could, for her to sum up the energy to really let herself feel. not when it's slammed down over her like a tidal wave of inescapable death. )
We're not problem solvers here. I wonder how many of us can be back home.
[He, too, is still caught in his own maelstrom of feelings to say much more. The death is overwhelming. The inevitability of it-- even the peace in it-- is overwhelming, too.]
But I think that's a consideration for later, my dear. We've [a beat; he's trying to work out how to word it politely.] endured quite a lot. And the mind must rest as well as the body.
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I didn't know I was Geralt's child surprise until... until my grandmother was dying. When she told me to go find him because he was my destiny, just like I was his.
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And this claim he has upon you-- does he become your guardian? A mentor or teacher? [he's mildly worried she's STUCK in this arrangement, but the way she talks about geralt doesn't seem to imply that, happily...!]
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He's the only father I've ever known.
( and she loves him, cannot stand the thought of losing him. will never be okay with that, a very healthy response from a very traumatised teenager. )
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Then your father would be proud to hear of all you did on the planet. That I know for certain.
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... Thank you. I... don't know that your important people would all know to be proud of you, but they should be too.
I'm fairly sure not everyone would have gone leaping through portals with me. On tree limbs thicker around than we are.
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Oh, they'd at least be amused to hear of the story: I know my daughter would be shocked. If Sholmes ever makes his way here, he'll be jealous he couldn't join us on that little adventure.
Naruhodo and Asogi are with us on the Ximilia and safe, at least. Naruhodo was the young man I called while we were mid-flight. [you know. the one you accidentally swore at, ciri.]
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( adults can probably handle it in the same messy way as the rest of the adults here do. seems fine. seems normal. )
Oh! Yes, I remember him, he was flying with Sabriel! How long have you known him again?
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Circumstances aside, I know they would, too.
[In fact, Susato would definitely love her. Without question.]
Before I arrived here? A little over a year. Though I didn't know him very well until recently, when he became a lawyer.
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Naruhodo is new to the profession, but I do believe he will be one of our brightest one day. Japan will need that. Our criminal justice system is in its infancy and sorely needs the guidance.
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I wish him luck in his lawyering. Are people often accused incorrectly where you're from? For political gain, or out of whatever other reason?
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Really? In what ways would you say it is different?
As for false accusations, yes. Unfortunately, abuse of power is something that is universal across most all worlds-- at least, so far as I have seen.
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Mm, it's felt that way to me, too. Like it's a struggle for people to hold power without falling into thinking you know best, or should be allowed to do as you wish without consequence. Just because you're stronger.
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[It's obvious that Ciri's intelligent and perceptive despite her young age. But there's something about the way she speaks about this that feels almost... personal.
Capable as she is? Yujin does worry for her.]
It sounds as though it's something you're familiar with. Are you facing a war, in your home world?
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What about in your world?
cw even more obvious war/imperialism mentions
[Including Japan, he thinks uneasily.]
In light of what we just experienced, it all feels even more futile.
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( she sounds more philosophical than she feels. the loss of a world, of all the lives, sapient and not, on it... it's still too exhausting, the process of saving who they could, for her to sum up the energy to really let herself feel. not when it's slammed down over her like a tidal wave of inescapable death. )
We're not problem solvers here. I wonder how many of us can be back home.
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[He, too, is still caught in his own maelstrom of feelings to say much more. The death is overwhelming. The inevitability of it-- even the peace in it-- is overwhelming, too.]
But I think that's a consideration for later, my dear. We've [a beat; he's trying to work out how to word it politely.] endured quite a lot. And the mind must rest as well as the body.