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( text | un: rivia )

[blamedestiny]

Has your pursuit of a contract been going well?

[choicely]

About as well as can be expected.

[ she decides to give him a bit more than that. ]

One of the newly-arrived submissives saw my missive on the network and has inquired about our forming an arrangement.

[blamedestiny]

How wonderful.

( so dry. )

Who is he? Or she?

[choicely]

He is Lord Osborne.

Someone who found themselves arriving in the city around the same time that I did, and smartly decided that working out a contract sooner rather than later was the most prudent solution.

[blamedestiny]

Lord Osbourne? Such a name. What is he a lord of?

[choicely]

It may very well be a self-proclaimed title. He's already insisted on me addressing him by his first name.

Understandably, he's even less thrilled about being designated a submissive as a result.

[blamedestiny]

Will you live together?

[choicely]

You know as well as I that the Down is nigh-inhospitable.

Besides, our agreement is purely pragmatic.
Certainly nothing born of feeling, at any rate.

[blamedestiny]

Congratulations, then. You found a contract quicker than I did my first time.

[choicely]

Is that so?
By contrast, it sounds as though you had no difficulty at all forging a deeper connection.

[blamedestiny]

What?

[choicely]

This city is only so large.
You had to have known I'd learn of her eventually.

[blamedestiny]

Are you speaking of Morgana?
Did the fucking bard tell you again?

[choicely]

Again?
So it's not the first time he's divulged what you didn't see fit to mention.

[blamedestiny]

It is my business, Yennefer.
Just because I hadn't told you yet doesn't mean I didn't intend to say anything.

[choicely]

And yet here we are once more, apparently.

[blamedestiny]

And are you going to tell me what I feel isn't real as well?

[choicely]

Well, I assume you didn't make a wish on her behalf.

[blamedestiny]

Does it matter? I was here for over a year without anyone from home. It happened.

[choicely]

A year? Practically a drop in a bucket compared to our longevity.

[blamedestiny]

What would you have me say, Yennefer?

[choicely]

Nothing.
Unless you think you can say anything beyond what has already been spoken for.

[blamedestiny]

I will not apologize for loving someone. I wouldn't expect it from you either.

[choicely]

I'm not demanding you do.
Though even a witcher's heart must only have so much room.

[blamedestiny]

For you, do you mean?