[ she can tell that ciri is startled - and yennefer doesn't blame her. the feeling of the magic along her skin isn't dissimilar to the illusions they were taught back at aretuza, but it is different. the application, the degree at which it holds. yennefer has taken time to practice it, to hone it, and the singularity centuries have given her a kind of false familiarity, where the feeling is concerned.

yennefer very nearly drops it, not wanting to make ciri any more uncomfortable, but that is just about the time ciri starts to speak, to ask her question, and yennefer stops herself before she does. what does it feel like?

it's an interesting question, and yennefer - in a way - turns a little more fully to face ciri. does it feel like yours? ]

Any magic you control is yours. [ yennefer states, simply, at first. but she does think she knows what ciri is saying, and there's a kind of curiosity that lights up the stranger's eyes. ] But it does feel different- it is not the same chaos I'm used to. There's something... altered.

Is this the first time your power has felt different?