[ that had been her point, though even she doesn't know the full extent of it. of the level of violence in his hands, what all his scars cover, the stories he could tell. what yennefer does know is that no one interesting is fully without them, that there is purpose and meaning to each and every one left behind. that may be part of the reason she, herself, still has some - a couple across her wrists that she chose to keep, and a couple more she has left linger, those that she has earned in her time in abraxas, without her chaos to stitch the skin back without the echo.
meanwhile, his body is covered in them, some that she can recognize (marks left by blades all tend to look the same) and some she doesn't. her curiosity lingers somewhere in her eyes when she scans them, moments she casually and quite shamelessly watches his shoulders, his neck, his arms, as he moves. but she does not ask, won't ask.
which means that yennefer's eyes are on him when he chuckles, where there is actual amusement in the curl of his mouth. it sends a kind of spark through her, whether it be confidence or something else, that she's cracked through to something in him. ]
I hardly think four years is long enough to go entirely stale. [ she jokes in return, that challenge he may or may not be exactly correct about where it concerns yennefer wrapped up in the words. ] Don't let me scare you away, after all. Practice does make perfect.
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meanwhile, his body is covered in them, some that she can recognize (marks left by blades all tend to look the same) and some she doesn't. her curiosity lingers somewhere in her eyes when she scans them, moments she casually and quite shamelessly watches his shoulders, his neck, his arms, as he moves. but she does not ask, won't ask.
which means that yennefer's eyes are on him when he chuckles, where there is actual amusement in the curl of his mouth. it sends a kind of spark through her, whether it be confidence or something else, that she's cracked through to something in him. ]
I hardly think four years is long enough to go entirely stale. [ she jokes in return, that challenge he may or may not be exactly correct about where it concerns yennefer wrapped up in the words. ] Don't let me scare you away, after all. Practice does make perfect.