[And perhaps the man believes himself a poor storyteller, but Julian listens with a clear and rapt interest that can be discerned through the focus of his one visible inebriation-hazed eye. It sounds...fantastical, the talk of girls who are beasts and battles that end with a roar, has the quality of a fairytale for someone not of the same world.

Which makes it all the more interesting to him, if he's honest. Geralt even has battle scars to prove the tale, which gives the whole thing an extra layer of authenticity, of interest.]

Well, that all sounds quite frightful. I don't think I'd want to run into one of those striga things...lucky such a beast doesn't exist where I hail from...at least, I don't think it does. I've never seen one.

[He sits just a little straighter in his seat as the train rattles past one stop and onto the next.]

So what happened? Did she survive in the end, after the bite? Did she uh, did she get to live a normal life?