Chapter 589

In the Marvel Universe, the System Works for Me.

There was more.

As for Miss Sable standing behind Nancy, Geralt had told the truth—if the ghost girl in a white gown and pageant crown was Lucy Sable.

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"Oh, right," Geralt asked. "Can you still see those things?"

"No. Sometimes I catch a shadow darting past." Nancy shook her head with a rueful smile. "Sometimes I wonder whether something's wrong with my eyes or my head."

Like Luke, Nancy was more sensitive to the supernatural than most people, but she couldn't see ghosts themselves unless they chose to appear. Without anyone to guide them, people like her could easily become confused and lost.

Nancy certainly had.

Add adolescence, her mother's death, and her father's downward spiral, and it was remarkable that this girl's world hadn't fallen apart. She was genuinely strong.

For the first time, Geralt found himself liking the blonde girl for more than her pretty face and lovely figure.

Once Nancy got talking, she said a lot. She longed to see the world beyond her town, to travel and set foot in places she'd never seen.

Nancy was rather... poetic.

Poetic...

That gave Geralt an idea.

Time to borrow someone else's words.

Here it came!

"The furthest distance in the world

was not the distance between life and death

but that I stood before you

and you did not know I loved you.

The furthest distance in the world

was not that I stood before you

but that I loved you beyond reason

and could not say I loved you.

The furthest distance in the world

was not that I could not say I loved you

but that missing you hurt to the bone

and I could only bury it deep in my heart.

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