Sometimes. It’s not that she’s struck with the honesty of it, necessarily - she hasn’t ever known Ronan to lie, hasn’t had any reason to think he’s answer in any way but honestly, rather there is something to the word that hints at a larger story. A history to him that she doesn’t not know. What had she told Geralt, once? That happy childhoods made for full company?

“Why?” Because through it, Ronan said have. Like he doesn’t have a choice. Like something is forcing him. It makes sense, that he has whatever energy it is he needs - that the Singularity acts as enough of a source to keep him from that hunger. But there is something in the way Ronan says he has to dream that has Yennefer’s head cocked to the side. “With power like that, I can’t imagine being forced to do anything, so what is making you?”