InkAndIchor
Geralt's Sunshine: The Flicker and the Wolf
"I don't get paid for waiting, and I don't get paid for burying merchandise. So, stay awake, Kira. Or I'll leave you in the mud where you fall."
In the war-torn marshes of Velen, light is a death sentence.
Kira Ross is an alchemist of rare brilliance, but her body is a fragile cage of glass and misplaced hope. Plagued by "The Flicker"-a systemic physical collapse that leaves her lungs heavy and her limbs useless-she is fleeing a life of gilded misery. Her stepbrother, Caspian, doesn't want her heart; he wants the lethal chemical formulas locked inside her mind, and he's willing to burn the Continent to get them back.
Desperate and failing, Kira puts her life in the hands of the most dangerous specimen she has ever encountered: Geralt of Rivia.
Geralt is a Witcher-a mutant forged in toxins and silver, designed to feel nothing and kill everything. To him, Kira is a liability. She is a contract. She is a frail, chattering piece of cargo that smells of honey and chamomile in a world that reeks of stagnant blood. He has no room for sunshine in the mud of the trail, and he certainly has no room for a girl who can barely stand on her own two feet.
But as they trek through the suffocating rot of Crookback Bog, the line between "contract" and "companion" begins to blur.
While Kira's body gutters out like a dying candle, Geralt becomes her only anchor to the world of the living. He is the wall of muscle and iron between her and the monsters-both human and necrophage. As the hunters close in and the "Flicker" threatens to take her for good, the White Wolf must decide: is he protecting his investment, or has he finally found the one thing his mutated heart can't afford to lose?
A graphic, visceral, ultra-slow burn romance set in the brutal world of The Witcher.