[ the longer this conversation goes, the more yennefer feels herself tense. like with each passing moment, she feels the weight and reality of what it is they're discussing. the others make up their minds, or seem to at least start heading in a certain direction, and yennefer isn't sure if this is even a warning to be taken seriously.
and this talk of a mule? yennefer's eyes roll at the further mention of it, like she finds the entire concept ridiculous. jolene is using a mule for them to escape, because they're...what? running out of time? it's a likely course of action, and something that could easily be believed, but she almost feels that because it's so easily believed that they shouldn't. ]
Jolene was also one of the mages who imprisoned us when we were first Summoned. None of you may have been present for that, but I was. [ and yennefer is aware of the hypocrisy of her statement, of what it says that she wants to speak of trust and apparent allegiances. it's exactly why she's here at all, isn't it?
but that is when thancred mentions jolene's previous help, when he all but mentions geralt, and yennefer goes very still once again. istredd mentions sidwell, their rise in power, and yes- yes. she's seen it too. seen the echoes of change predating what is very obviously going to be a momentous shift in the way the castle of thorne is handled, but a warning like this...
would they even risk a coup? do they hold that much power? yennefer frowns, her mind spinning back through what she's noticed, what she knows, trying to avoid memories that she now knows aren't real and actual things she's noticed around the castle, when-
yenna. she blinks, realizing she'd been staring at the table, and looks up to istredd. istredd, who had been talking about the singularity, about his role here, about staying. but then he'd said something up, something about pushing, something about... oh.
kyle interjects, mentions limiting communication, mentions keeping separation, and they are all good points. something yennefer would agree with, if she weren't distracted with istredd's comment and then - as she looks to thancred and stephen - because while stephen may be able to set aside the frustration that they're being forced to move based on someone else's choices, yennefer doesn't let that pass so easily. ]
No. [ her eyes go from stephen, back to thancred, and then fall on istredd yet again - feeling suddenly trapped, not by the people in the room, necessarily, but by the conversation itself. ] No- I won't be made to leave. [ she shakes her head. ] Not when we don't know enough of what's to come.
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and this talk of a mule? yennefer's eyes roll at the further mention of it, like she finds the entire concept ridiculous. jolene is using a mule for them to escape, because they're...what? running out of time? it's a likely course of action, and something that could easily be believed, but she almost feels that because it's so easily believed that they shouldn't. ]
Jolene was also one of the mages who imprisoned us when we were first Summoned. None of you may have been present for that, but I was. [ and yennefer is aware of the hypocrisy of her statement, of what it says that she wants to speak of trust and apparent allegiances. it's exactly why she's here at all, isn't it?
but that is when thancred mentions jolene's previous help, when he all but mentions geralt, and yennefer goes very still once again. istredd mentions sidwell, their rise in power, and yes- yes. she's seen it too. seen the echoes of change predating what is very obviously going to be a momentous shift in the way the castle of thorne is handled, but a warning like this...
would they even risk a coup? do they hold that much power? yennefer frowns, her mind spinning back through what she's noticed, what she knows, trying to avoid memories that she now knows aren't real and actual things she's noticed around the castle, when-
yenna. she blinks, realizing she'd been staring at the table, and looks up to istredd. istredd, who had been talking about the singularity, about his role here, about staying. but then he'd said something up, something about pushing, something about... oh.
kyle interjects, mentions limiting communication, mentions keeping separation, and they are all good points. something yennefer would agree with, if she weren't distracted with istredd's comment and then - as she looks to thancred and stephen - because while stephen may be able to set aside the frustration that they're being forced to move based on someone else's choices, yennefer doesn't let that pass so easily. ]
No. [ her eyes go from stephen, back to thancred, and then fall on istredd yet again - feeling suddenly trapped, not by the people in the room, necessarily, but by the conversation itself. ] No- I won't be made to leave. [ she shakes her head. ] Not when we don't know enough of what's to come.