[ yennefer looks all the part curious and interested onlooker as the queen explains, and a part of her is genuinely curious - having not seen this part of the thornean magic. she looks - not necessarily interested - but an invested onlooker, listening intently as the queen instructs.
she will not break, here. she knows geralt well enough to know he will not snap with a simple wound. the opening of his skin and the immediate lashing does shoot a sense of tension through her, but it is much more a shocking sensation that she can push off as a instinctual reaction to the sound, if nothing else.
her eyes are mostly on the queen, flirting to grigory and then geralt, depending on the order of actions - following the scene in front of her, jumping only at the sound - though the impact of it goes much deeper. ]
Is that of his own making? [ she asks, as casually as she possibly can, though her eyes flit to geralt, to the obvious pain he feels, in how he reacts to the lashing, to how grigory opens him for it. she will not let a physical reaction show for how she tenses at the sound, will not let it show just how she feels for ravine lesion she sees. ] An affective use of force.
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she will not break, here. she knows geralt well enough to know he will not snap with a simple wound. the opening of his skin and the immediate lashing does shoot a sense of tension through her, but it is much more a shocking sensation that she can push off as a instinctual reaction to the sound, if nothing else.
her eyes are mostly on the queen, flirting to grigory and then geralt, depending on the order of actions - following the scene in front of her, jumping only at the sound - though the impact of it goes much deeper. ]
Is that of his own making? [ she asks, as casually as she possibly can, though her eyes flit to geralt, to the obvious pain he feels, in how he reacts to the lashing, to how grigory opens him for it. she will not let a physical reaction show for how she tenses at the sound, will not let it show just how she feels for ravine lesion she sees. ] An affective use of force.