If fate could be tempted, Stephen, we've already crossed that line.
[ but her eyes do linger on the watch, on the curiosity she's built up around this entire quest. some of the devices had, indeed, interacted in different ways with the singularity. the distance, the readings, the chaos in the air. but this will be the closest they've come, though hardly the closest yennefer has been. of course, they also have to take into account that once this device is set up, they will have completed them, and then what? will their connection, their locations, all sync together? will the pattern have anything to say? it's interesting, that each of the points have been relatively close to borders, but...
thancred's question, though, tugs yennefer's attention away from whatever theorizing she may have fallen victim to, a kind of tension shooting back through her as she sits upon her horse. it's an old habit, to slip back behind that wall and to answer the question with flippancy and only partial truths, but. well. after all of this, after these weeks on the road and the lengths they've all gone to. after the way yennefer is dreading this, if only because she's not confident in what this, whatever this is between all of them, will remain at the same level once they return.
she supposes here would be as good a place as any.
her gaze shifts over her shoulder to stephen, to see if there is any way to tell what he's thinking, if there really is more to his decision, or if he too feels safe enough to really say it, before her eyes shift to thancred - the violet in them bright, the expression...well. ]
You asked me that back at the Summit. [ she starts, her lips curling up ever so slightly. it's only a partial tease, before that curl settles back into something more serious. ] And it was truth, though only one part of it. [ her attention turns back to the road, to the short distance they have left. she lets out a breath, her decision made. ]
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[ but her eyes do linger on the watch, on the curiosity she's built up around this entire quest. some of the devices had, indeed, interacted in different ways with the singularity. the distance, the readings, the chaos in the air. but this will be the closest they've come, though hardly the closest yennefer has been. of course, they also have to take into account that once this device is set up, they will have completed them, and then what? will their connection, their locations, all sync together? will the pattern have anything to say? it's interesting, that each of the points have been relatively close to borders, but...
thancred's question, though, tugs yennefer's attention away from whatever theorizing she may have fallen victim to, a kind of tension shooting back through her as she sits upon her horse. it's an old habit, to slip back behind that wall and to answer the question with flippancy and only partial truths, but. well. after all of this, after these weeks on the road and the lengths they've all gone to. after the way yennefer is dreading this, if only because she's not confident in what this, whatever this is between all of them, will remain at the same level once they return.
she supposes here would be as good a place as any.
her gaze shifts over her shoulder to stephen, to see if there is any way to tell what he's thinking, if there really is more to his decision, or if he too feels safe enough to really say it, before her eyes shift to thancred - the violet in them bright, the expression...well. ]
You asked me that back at the Summit. [ she starts, her lips curling up ever so slightly. it's only a partial tease, before that curl settles back into something more serious. ] And it was truth, though only one part of it. [ her attention turns back to the road, to the short distance they have left. she lets out a breath, her decision made. ]
You've both heard of the Summoned Relena, yes?