"A sack and a rope for a belt," Childermass adds. He tries not to relax too visibly once Lambert's out of sight again, but he never knows how well-trained a witcher is to even see that.

"You'd finally be the height of fashion with that..." It's a lame attempt at humor, he knows. To the rest, he can only shrug. "And I'll just try to stay out of the way, then, while people clean up here."