[for Anya]

Nina stared at the dress in the window with a little bit of longing. Something about being able to afford it made window shopping less fun, but she did it anyway, doing her best that she didn't have such a huge haul just sitting in her bank account. Even after helping Geralt with building his house in the woods, she still had more than enough.

If she were in Ketterdam, that money would have gotten her back to Ravka. She would have given it to the Second Army, or the king, or something. She didn't need it for herself. She didn't even really want it. She hadn't done the job for the money, she'd done it to help Matthias.

But Matthias was not in danger here, and there was no way to go home. Not even with five million kruge.

So she would window shop, and she would do her best to live a life in Darrow that didn't leave her bored to tears.

"I wonder if it comes in red," she said out loud. "Even if I have almost nowhere to wear it."