I certainly hope not. The last thing this Continent needs is my poetry.
[ to give yennefer any kind of credit here would perhaps be a little too favorable, but she would have been prepared if he wanted to point out this fact. it's not as though she's spent the last hours in distinct, fevered arguments that brought up this very fact. he would be in the right to do so, though a part of her is quite relieved, and glad, that he isn't.
she is just tired. and she is scared. and while fighting with jaskier would settle her more firmly in whatever side of things she wanted to stand on, but the truth is, she really doesn't know how much more she has in her to do so. ]
You don't wish to claim credit? My dear husband, are you feeling quite well? I'd hate to think you've fallen under the weather in the midst of all this upheaval. How else are you going to get a front row seat for your next ballad?
[ which may be... a bit crass, if she's being honest. she does not know what is happening back in the castle, does not know what fate awaits her or any of the summoned she's left behind. but the attempts at humor are just that, attempts, and the moment that jaskier does not wish to meet her there her determination to keep it crumbles. ]
I'm out of the castle and currently out of harm's way. Though I'm not certain any of us know for sure where we are headed. I'm tired and I smell of horse and dirt and I am meant to spend extended days in close quarters with fucking Ambrose Rhett so. All right is about all I can muster, at present.
[ once again, jaskier may be the only person who gets an honest answer out of her about the whole ordeal, but it's not as though she has to pretend any longer. ]
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she is just tired. and she is scared. and while fighting with jaskier would settle her more firmly in whatever side of things she wanted to stand on, but the truth is, she really doesn't know how much more she has in her to do so. ] [ which may be... a bit crass, if she's being honest. she does not know what is happening back in the castle, does not know what fate awaits her or any of the summoned she's left behind. but the attempts at humor are just that, attempts, and the moment that jaskier does not wish to meet her there her determination to keep it crumbles. ] [ once again, jaskier may be the only person who gets an honest answer out of her about the whole ordeal, but it's not as though she has to pretend any longer. ]