[ yennefer's apprentices have been kept busy, and that is really the nicest way she can explain it. they're hard workers, determined and stubborn, all of which would be necessary where it concerns learning from yennefer. that is not to say she is a mean teacher - honestly tissaia would most likely find her on the softer side, what with the inherent lack of lightning, lessons designed to humiliate and break, and the usual trauma wrapped up in the halls of aretuza. no, yennefer is not here to teach these students how to harness magic, rather she has been given room to study, and workers with which to show her processes and skills and who, along the way, yennefer does find she has time to instruct.
now - none of this is really important, considering the purpose of this meeting is between her and stephen. stephen, who has apparently been up to his own adventures within the halls. stephen, who yennefer knows how his own studies, his own pupils, most of them summoned. still, it has been some time since the two of them have found a free moment together, so yennefer decides to create one.
which goes to say - by the time stephen wanders his way out into the garden, a vast level of hidden pathways, small fountains, and more variety of plant life than anyone really should have access to (but that's a topic of discussion for a later time, no need to get into classism and royal and money for now) he will find yennefer, lounging on a stone bench, reading from yet another tome. she looks bored, and all too ready to put the book down when he arrives.
when her eyes fall to the bottle in his hand, she smiles, pleased, and then stands. ]
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now - none of this is really important, considering the purpose of this meeting is between her and stephen. stephen, who has apparently been up to his own adventures within the halls. stephen, who yennefer knows how his own studies, his own pupils, most of them summoned. still, it has been some time since the two of them have found a free moment together, so yennefer decides to create one.
which goes to say - by the time stephen wanders his way out into the garden, a vast level of hidden pathways, small fountains, and more variety of plant life than anyone really should have access to (but that's a topic of discussion for a later time, no need to get into classism and royal and money for now) he will find yennefer, lounging on a stone bench, reading from yet another tome. she looks bored, and all too ready to put the book down when he arrives.
when her eyes fall to the bottle in his hand, she smiles, pleased, and then stands. ]
You've been keeping busy.