Silently, she curses before moving so they were a bit further from the cell. Setting the torch down, she takes the offered vial and carefully uses her knife to ease the shard in before capping it. Ciri wants to go back in and get her sword but she forces herself to stand there, taking a few deep breaths before nodding.

"Red lyrium, a leftover shard from where their heart had been. It's why people have gone missing, why a place like this even exists." Why she feels nothing for the Red Templars they killed on the way in here. "They're farming red lyrium from the kidnapped victims, forcing them to ingest and grow it inside them."