[ Geralt may have said his piece, but Jaskier is only getting started. So he lets the bard go on, eyes closing for a minute or two while he tries to remember through the haze his mind had been. His time in the cells was a clouded blur. He's only just barely kept track of how much time was passing. But he does recall their conversation, brief though it was. Recalls their conversation before that, too. ]

She did not convince him. [ That much he can grasp. She would have used someone else were she manipulating another, not a man who seems to have the proclivities of a rock. No. She and Kylo have made an alliance, for their own reasons. And he can surmise what those reasons are given who had captured specifically, who had placed him behind closed doors in that throne room. The distaste Kylo held for the mage boy at the queen's side. ] She found aid with those who sympathize with Thorne's plight, but not its queen.

[ What was it. Amnesty? He believes the man when he stated that was their desire, to grant amnesty—no doubt in hopes of wooing those who fled to return—and he can see how a prisoner locked away and torn to shreds would interfere with those goals. He can also gather why Yen would forge an alliance with someone like that. ]

We know Thorne fears the destruction of their world. But the queen... [ What does she want? ] I don't know what she's after.