Talk:Catriona plague/@comment-91.51.207.144-20180208095627/@comment-31.205.21.36-20190124235107

I'd argue it is good writing. Time-travel in stories often goes without consequence as far as biology is concerned. Clichee number one of anti-time-travel narratives is that you'd be dead in a week from a lethal desease for which you have no immunity.

Ciri's visit to Black Death Europe is a easy, short hand way of aptly conveying such consequences to the reader, and demonstrating that Ciri's time hopping, even at random and quick succession, has dire consequences. We quickly infer she encounters the black death, so considering we've also heard loads about the Catriona by this point its a sobering narrative ploy to make.

I'd suggest actually reading Sapkowski's work before off-handedly calling the idea bull - there's a whole load of narrative that puts this scene into context and makes it work quite viscerally.