Between Syrlya and Geralt's shit-dipped lives, Lambert's starting to rethink his desire to ever remotely become anything resembling a protagonist again. Sure, the recognition would be nice, but it sounds like it comes with a whole lot of crap.

Syrlya's explanation has some noticeable missing pieces in it, but Lambert isn't sure he wants a whole technical explanation of it. Still, he has to point out:

"There's a whole lot of holes in that story, you know that? Good thing you're not a bard."