"Maybe once or twice, now that I mostly use it for healing and tantalizing instead of crippling."

Now and then she still felt a bit bad about what she had done on their first meeting, and then again back in the autumn, when she'd had the most vivid nightmare. But Geralt hadn't blamed her for it or even held it against her, even if the second time she could have killed him.

"It-- it's nice to know a man that isn't afraid of me," she confessed. Even Matthias, who had desired her and maybe even loved her, had been afraid of her. He still was.