Hestia de Aretuza used to be a mage like all the others. Abandoned in Aretuza, tales tell that she was covered in fire, unharmed, untouched, with red bright eyes like a beast.
It didn't take long for the others to notice there was something special...
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The nights with Geralt were filled with love and conversations about all sorts of topics, they could stay awake all night just talking about the life of unwanted people, telling stories from their childhoods, their teen years, normally really stupid things, like the time Hestia found Est Est in the middle of Tissaia's things and got drunk with two zips, dancing on the dinner table of Aretuza, or the adventures of Geralt and Jaskier, and how Jaskier would always fuck things up, that's how the stories always started, or ended. On other nights, very frequently, they would stay awake for other reasons, that didn't envolve much talking, such as, well, them fucking so loud it would wake up people from all around the castle.
Talking about the past was hard and both of them would omit a lot of information, for it being to delicate and a sensitive matter, or for reasons such as not having the courage to tell each other their deepest secrets. Hestia wouldn't talk about Yennefer or what happened, really, for her to be persecuted by Letus. She wouldn't tell him much about her problems with Nilfgaard or her plans to rule Cintra, it was a topic that generated an argument, something Hestia did not enjoy, neither would accept to be challenged.
On the other hand Geralt would omit many things too, such as his child of surprise, his relationship with Yennefer, his troubles with Cintra and his mother, he would never talk about his mother. It wasn't like he didn't want to tell her, it was more as he was afraid of the consequences, especially for the entire child of surprise thing, knowing that if Hestia knew the kid she loved so much, cared so much and wished she could take away from Calanthe's hands, if she knew that could be done, if only he claimed the kid, she would never forgive him and he knew it.
