After surviving the Wild Hunt and saving the world from an eternal winter, Geralt de Riv continued to train his protégé, Ciri, to the hard job of Sorcerleur. On the trail of a strige terrorizing the vicinity of Novigrad, the apprentice monster hunter sought to know more about the creature. As she stopped to the Red capital, Geralt revealed to him the details of her last encounter with a strige on the side of Wyzima, a fight that almost cost her her life.