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[vixening]

Who: yennefer + others
When: september
Where: castle thorne + the horizon
What: after the events of the nocwich, and the retaliation from all sides, yennefer keeps busy. ota unless specified otherwise.
Warnings: yennefer's bad moods, etc.

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[stations]

Memories. Other people's, I mean. I've been sort of... seeing them, or maybe more like living them.

( Which feels different, somehow. Standing as a third person and watching something unfold with a degree of separation is a little less intimate than being the person it's happening to. Feeling their feelings, thinking their thoughts, knowing the context. Living it through their perspective.

In any case, when you combo the two things together...

Let's just say he had a flash of one of Lucifer's memories, and manifesting literal Hell around them on accident would probably be very not great. )

It's pretty random. I don't know when it's gonna happen or why I get the specific memories I get, but... I get them.

[vixening]

[ luckily, or perhaps not luckily, the seeing memories bit of jack’s abilities is far from surprising yennefer. be it the fact reading memories and thoughts has been a part of yennefer’s experience with chaos since the beginning, or even the more recent outbursts from the horizon, he says reading memories and yennefer doesn’t look bored, exactly, but less pulled.

( that doesn’t mean that she’s not immediately wary of him - with her own secrets, with her own lives, the last thing she needs is someone in thorne seeing any of that. but, at least for now, she’s getting the impression jack is…well, not harmless, but not malicious in the way that would actually affect her )

for now, yennefer just nods, unable to keep herself from already thinking of how she’d go about this. usually they must be taught to tap into the chaos, though initial glimpses of power are necessary. this…if it’s happening with any consistency, is most likely magic of the abraxas variety. ]

Let me guess- when you accidentally see a memory, you’re more likely to summon something from that memory than anything random? [ a beat. ] About how often does this happen?

[stations]

Yeah.

( It's a soft exhale — and frankly, it sounds a little bit relieved. It sounds like she knows what she's talking about. If she's familiar with it, she must be able to teach him, right?

As for frequency: )

Not that often during the day, but lately, I've been-

( A brief falter as he looks for how to phrase it. )

Not... sleepwalking, exactly, but close enough. It seems like whenever I run into somebody doing that...

( Shrug. Fill in the blanks. It happens. )

It's just once or twice a week now, but I have a pretty... weird relationship with sleep. It's probably gonna get worse.

[vixening]

[ unfortunately for him, it's less that she's familiar and more that she can see the logic of it. where the chaos congregates, how it translates when it doesn't have someone who can translate it. when he agrees, yennefer gives another small nod.

the during the day doesn't surprise her that much either - if he's unable to control it, it would make sense that it becomes more frequent when his usual tensions and guards are down.

it's the falter that catches her attention, her brow furrowing as he explains. ]

What do you mean 'weird relationship with sleep'? Nightmares are hardly weird, so I would hope it's something more interesting.

[ which...sorry, jack, but that is what this has come down to for her. what's interesting, and what isn't. ]

Are you conscious while you're 'not' sleep walking?