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
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