Chapter 5 - The Cold

I awoke still drunk
Sun just barely rising

Witcher said
"If we get it moving we surprise 'em"

It was so hard to stand up
Knowing they were gone

I just wish that I could
Hold my fucking wife once more

I wish I didn't have to see the Knights
Treat her like a whore

I wish I coulda told my son
I loved 'em once more

But fuck it, me and snake eyes
Steady walking on

I'm scared as fuck
Fate resting on the twin swords

I'm weak
He's stopping every couple hundred feet

Running his fingers through the imprints
From their feet

He was majestic
Even though the world thought a monster

The message
We are all monsters let's be honest

It's hectic
We kill rape and steal and slaughter

For skeptics
To believe that we possess some we honor

The trees disappear
Replaced quick with the swamps

Stick close
He told me, I'm terrified so I follow

I stepped on a patch a ground
That felt hollow

The drowners came up to surround
I start to wallow

The snake eyed one he just smirks
Told me watch close

He slammed his fist down on the ground
They went flying yo

They got up, 6 of 'em screaming
Scaring the swallows

They creeping to the witcher
What's the plan? Just the gods know

And just then he leaps forward
Clutching his silver sword

One motion
Decapitate the first third and forth

The rest fall dead
Cut in half at the torso

He didn't break a fucking sweat
Guess it's time to go

He leans down
Another couple miles up the road

Dragging his fingers slow through the mud
They must be close

Up ahead, heard the evil laughter
Like some crows

The witcher asked me if I was ready
Well hear it goes

We step out of the shadow
Approaching the fucking devil's

Black knights heavily trained
Toting my metals

Ain't shit to the snake eyed one
Not on the level

Black Knight catches my eye
Looking disheveled

"I remember you, the blacksmith
With the whore wife

No family, no father
Yet you been serving your whole life

Not a fucking purpose but the forge
What's it feel like?

Now you brought this creature
To fight the battles you can't fight"

Witcher interjected like
"Hello it's nice to meet ya

And if you did that to his wife and kid then
You're the creature

There's shit up in this world
1 bite they could eat ya

And here you are
Fucking with anyone who is weaker"

No more words, drawn blade
Noticed his hand is scarred

They rose drawing my steel
Tight on their guard

This just what you would expect
From knights of nilfgaard

Witcher told me "stay right here
I'll send 'em to the gods"

One by one they attacked
The frustration

That I felt having to sit still
The vexation

I'm livid but I'm steady ignoring
The temptation

The witcher now surrounded
They changing the formation

They swinging like some mad men
He ain't even look

He blocks 2 blades at once
In their face they were shook

This was some that you only ever read
In some books

Honestly I felt empty
With each life that he took

Only 1 Knight remained
The one that gave me the gold

The snake eyed one
Just cut his fucking knee and he folds

The other knights lay around
Straight lifeless, cold

"You wanna do the honors?"
Took the knights knife I was sold

This was the very same blade in
My hand that I hold

That ended my wife, and took my left eye
Out its hole

I just stare into his eyes
Think of all that he stole

I took the knife and I stuck it
Through the side of his throat

And in that moment
I never fucking felt so cold

I drop the knife and I scream
From the depths of my soul

Wishing for death
Tell the gods come and take me home

"not yet we made a deal
Get to scorching the forge