This was not going so well. Kirk almost made a motion for Anders to simply back away, but the boy did look like he needed medical attention. Kirk knew field dressing, but little else, and if the boy had to travel with them, the sooner he realized Anders was not a threat the better.

And then Ciri came forward - forward with her children's story book and a question of red liquid. It took him a moment to realize what she meant. Red Lyrium. The stuff Korrin had warned him away from. He wondered what it was her group had found, but now wasn't the time to for such questions. The focus was the child, seeing him safely out of this mess and all of them back home.

Even so, his attention shifts more away from the boy and more to Ciri, not having forgotten that just a moment ago she'd had her hand on the hilt of her blade.