[And in truth, there is no fear in him-- he's frequented many a dark alley in his time, many a shady location, and if anything this relatively affluent area is far less risky than the kinds of situations he's accustomed to. It is particularly hard to make out the shapes of their surroundings in the dark though, when a man has only one eye currently at his disposal, one eye that is already seeing things through a gin-induced haze.]
Lucky I ran into you then, isn't it? Who knows where I'd have ended up otherwise.
[Asleep in a gutter in the Down probably, or under a table in the bar they were frequenting. Or some situation entirely worse than that. And he does catch the quick dilation of the other man's eyes as he turns to look at him, knows what it's likely to mean. Allows himself to be led along with some certainty, safe in the assumed knowledge that Geralt will be much better at maneuvering his way around than Julian himself currently is.]
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Lucky I ran into you then, isn't it? Who knows where I'd have ended up otherwise.
[Asleep in a gutter in the Down probably, or under a table in the bar they were frequenting. Or some situation entirely worse than that. And he does catch the quick dilation of the other man's eyes as he turns to look at him, knows what it's likely to mean. Allows himself to be led along with some certainty, safe in the assumed knowledge that Geralt will be much better at maneuvering his way around than Julian himself currently is.]