#the last line isn't a jab towards her btw it's my interpretation of her tragic character

[hanzajesthanza]

because @horsegirlcahir brought up "angoulême being told that regis is a vampire"...

because, my idea is that...

they didn't tell her.

as zoltan chivay put it... ‘It just seemed to happen.’

now, this is the analysis which must precede the creative writing, to explain my idea properly :) maybe consider this post a "part one."

because, for clarity, the timeline of events is as follows:

in tower of the swallow, geralt's company arrives in riedbrune seven days before the equinox (a day before the seventeenth of september).

geralt is summoned to speak with fulko artevelde and obtains angoulême on the day of the equinox (the same day he has the feeling that ciri has died... symbolism, wow)

but that night of the equinox is when geralt and cahir suddenly fall upon each other with blows... resulting in following silence and awkwardness between the company...

not speaking much until it came time for them to part and split up two nights later, upon the sunrise: geralt, cahir, and angoulême for belhaven, milva, dandelion, and regis for toussaint.

owing to this heaviness that hung over the company after geralt and cahir’s fight, in the two days preceding geralt’s apology…

no one’s mind was on angoulême anymore. the focus had been shifted from the introduction of a new member, to suddenly, to the very future of the company itself.

and this worry about the future has been looming in front of them for quite a while. chapter five begins like this, after all:

The Amell Mountains. And rising even above the saw-toothed Amell was the forbiddingly majestic obelisk of Mount Gorgon, Devil Mountain, as angular as the blade of a misericorde. They did not talk about it, didn’t discuss it, but Geralt felt what everybody was thinking. For when he looked at the Amell range and Gorgon, the thought of continuing the journey southwards seemed sheer insanity.

even a night before their parting, this symbolism of gorgon as the company-breaker continues:

Gorgon loomed up on the horizon. Ever closer.

in other words, they had bigger fish to fry (or cormorants to strangle) than to concern themselves with angoulême. she was initiated into the company at the worst time…

and also in a poor way—may i remind that to bring her with them was solely geralt's decision. dandelion questions his bringing her with them, and she manages to sink her claws of annoyance into regis and milva already by the end of the chapter.

‘Correct me if I’m wrong,’ he said. ‘But that girl, Angoulême, whom you have so cheerfully and carelessly added to our company, is a criminal.’

i don’t think anybody expected to keep angoulême with them, because even the author himself didn't—angoulême stuck around longer than intended, because sapkowski turned out to like the character more than he had initially anticipated:

Question: In an interview with Stanisław Bereś, you noted that there are characters who seem to stick to the author, and that's why they play a bigger role than that was originally planned. Can you give examples from the Witcher saga - were there such characters, and if so, what roles did they have originally? AS: Definitely, Angoulême, Dijkstra, Joanna "Kenna" Selbourne, Boreas Mun, Ori Reuven. 

in this context of chapter five and six, angoulême was solely there because geralt took sympathy upon her for she resembled ciri, and they needed her guidance amongst the local area, which she was happy to give them in reciprocity for being rescued:

‘To make matters worse, one who knows neither Nightingale, nor anyone in Belhaven or the surroundings, neither foes, friends, nor allies. Who knows not the roads leading to the town–and there are various. I say: the Witcher won’t cope. I don’t know what customs prevail among you, but I won’t leave the Witcher alone.’

the relationship was, at this moment in time, quid-quo-pro... which comes to a head in chapter six when angoulême offers herself to geralt, to his disgust. it's only after his genuine refusal of her, her running back to the rest of the company to inform them that geralt and cahir are in... dire straits, and even as far as them staying in beauclair that she becomes fully integrated with the company. which makes sense: to be a "brother in arms," you have to first pass through fire...

so, we have it, two days that angoulême is with the company, two days until they part.

during which parting, regis grants explanation alongside geralt as to how schirrú had the information to give nightingale's hanza (which at the time included angoulême), about the members of geralt's company and where they were travelling.

‘Where we are, what we’re planning, what route we’re taking and whither we’re heading… all was uncovered with the help of scanning, detecting magic. It’s none too difficult for a mistress of magic to remotely detect and observe a person who was once well-known and close, with whom they had a long-term psychic contact which permits the creation of a matrix. But the sorcerer and sorceress of whom I speak made a mistake. They’ve revealed themselves. They made an error when counting the members of the company, and that error betrayed them. Tell them, Regis.’

but two days... and a girl who, they're thinking, they'll drop off soon enough... moreover, a somewhat annoying girl who's already antagonized their members, who's a criminal and before this was working with their enemies, who's only with them by the concidence of her betrayal... it is her untrustworthiness which brought them together.

logic would have it that they shouldn't trust her with any sensitive information, because it's that very sensitive information of their enemies that she's currently divulging to them - if they are to split up eventually, what's to stop her from using whatever they tell her against them?

that is all to say...

there was no reason for them to tell angoulême about regis.

before he says it himself. regardless of her presence. naturally.

‘Geralt may be right,’ Regis said slowly. ‘Like every vampire, I’m invisible to magical visual probing and scanning; that is, to a detecting spell. A vampire may be tracked using an analytical spell, from close up, but it is not possible to detect a vampire with a remote, scanning spell. The detection will report that there’s no one there. Thus only a sorcerer could be mistaken regarding us: to register four people, where there were actually five; that is, four people and one vampire.’

the scene continues and finishes swiftly. geralt incites them to take revenge for ciri's "death". and they set out to part.

‘So let us begin and may the Devil assist us! Cahir, Angoulême, to horse. We ride up the Nevi, towards Belhaven. Dandelion, Milva, Regis, make for Sansretour, towards Toussaint’s borders. You won’t get lost, Gorgon will point the way. Goodbye.’

we're left with a dramatic conclusion that ends with ciri stroking the tomcat in vysogota's hut. ciri watches them from a dream: geralt, cahir, and angouleme setting out...

but what i imagine is that, before they part, directly after that ‘May the devil assist us! ... Goodbye.’

we just cut the tension with angoulême raising a hand and going "hey, yeah, just one question... what the fuck?".

and everyone realizing they didn't explain anything to her. because they forgot about her. because she's naturally forgettable.