Nina was quiet for a moment after he mentioned a dead wife. A dead wife who had at least one child.

"I'm sorry to hear about your wife," she said with quiet sympathy. Geralt wasn't dead, but he was gone. "What did you do to get yourself crushed in an alley by a man in power? What did you do to anger him so?"

Thomas's injuries were a message, she was certain of that now. It was the sort of thing Kaz might do to make a point.