Talk:The Ghost in the Tree/@comment-24.165.137.144-20151214064208/@comment-74.37.241.190-20160414185631

1. The thing about the book is the question who wrote the book someone while the Crones are in power.

2. Spoiler*** When you find Ciri and talk to her in one of the conversations she will tell you the spirit is indeed a trapped Druid priestess. Knowing some druids you know they are not monsters, but who is to say that this one isn't, especially since her bones didn't look human, but playing the game you know not all monsters are monsters, but like humans have good and bad within their group. She rescues the children for you regardless of when you meet her. The Crones will tell you that. So you can cancel the children being a bargaining chip out with that. However you could also argue it is just vengeance against the crones. Thespirit murders an entire village, but the village elder tells you we do what we have to to survive. They have been sacrificing children, body parts, and who knows what else to the Crones for the idea of safety. True the Crones always keep their deals, but they are cunning and manipulative and their deals are kept after you have fulfilled their wishes. Plus spoilers*** the witches work and parlay with the wild hunt.

I am pretty sure that freeing the spirit will end in some kind of fix it job for Geralt, but I have never seen a win, win in this series. Geralt is always fixing something, and in this instance of doing the best in a crappy situation it is saving some children, plus bringing down a town of willing participants to child sacrifice along with any other number of misdeeds for the crones. Either way Geralt will have to live with the burden of making the best of a crappy situation.