yeah, if he'll step out of his research to explore with geralt they can bump into each other with all the birds! geralt doesn't know crane, but he'd be willing to escort him if that's what crane asks him to do.

i'm thinking crane can get a little taste of either parental abandonment or the trials themselves...both would be good, the former for just a personal history and the latter bc obv. crane eventually diverges towards that human experimentation aspect. im also down for geralt learning about crane only as well! up to you how you wanna play it, if you wanted an exchange or if it just went one way