"They're okay," Bull says warily, eyeing him. "Alive. But you know I'd tell you that either way."
So maybe the witcher thinks he'll get more money if he does find the girls alive, if he can talk Bull into telling him where they are. Not that the witcher seems too invested in that, but it's worth paying attention to in case it turns out more important to the guy than he wants to let on. There's the 'sentient species' angle, too - Bull's not sure he buys that one, though, too wary of the sliver of hope that he might live through the day after all to believe in it. It'd be a good trick, make the monster think it's going to die and then offer a little hope, enough light at the end of the tunnel to blind it into thinking honesty might be the way out.
Not that he's going to give those girls up either way. No witcher's got a reason to keep a monster alive, not really, and what happens to any human mercenaries who were - whatever they'd call it, 'morally corrupt' enough to work with one? It depends on the witcher, he guesses. Any witcher who found the Chargers out might just want to be bribed, or he might turn around and just kill them. Krem and the boys are good, but Bull's heard too much about witchers to risk it.
Buy time.
"Mayor's trying to stiff you on your fee though, huh? Don't let him give you that shit, guy's loaded. Got enough money to do anything he wants, especially in a tiny town like that. Whatever he said he'd pay you, he can afford more." A little love-package for the mayor, there - even if the witcher kills him, he might go back to town and give the guy shit about his fee afterward, so. Got to make your silver linings where you can get them.
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So maybe the witcher thinks he'll get more money if he does find the girls alive, if he can talk Bull into telling him where they are. Not that the witcher seems too invested in that, but it's worth paying attention to in case it turns out more important to the guy than he wants to let on. There's the 'sentient species' angle, too - Bull's not sure he buys that one, though, too wary of the sliver of hope that he might live through the day after all to believe in it. It'd be a good trick, make the monster think it's going to die and then offer a little hope, enough light at the end of the tunnel to blind it into thinking honesty might be the way out.
Not that he's going to give those girls up either way. No witcher's got a reason to keep a monster alive, not really, and what happens to any human mercenaries who were - whatever they'd call it, 'morally corrupt' enough to work with one? It depends on the witcher, he guesses. Any witcher who found the Chargers out might just want to be bribed, or he might turn around and just kill them. Krem and the boys are good, but Bull's heard too much about witchers to risk it.
Buy time.
"Mayor's trying to stiff you on your fee though, huh? Don't let him give you that shit, guy's loaded. Got enough money to do anything he wants, especially in a tiny town like that. Whatever he said he'd pay you, he can afford more." A little love-package for the mayor, there - even if the witcher kills him, he might go back to town and give the guy shit about his fee afterward, so. Got to make your silver linings where you can get them.