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Such as seek retaliation against whoever's wronged you?

Don't worry. I'm too exhausted for anything close to that.

[ but she can provide an open ear, and a singular presence is less work for her to have to concentrate her efforts toward than being surrounded by many. ]

[seaboard]

That, exactly.

I rather am as well, so we should be good company.

[ There is the sound - no, the feeling of her laughter that carries across, the left over connection even now. ]

My cottage is upstream of the pond, closer to the waterfall. Come by whenever the mood strikes of you, there is certainly no rush.

[choicely]

No rush, as long as it's by this evening?

[ her own amusement can be readily felt, since she's making no effort to mask it. ]

Trust me, I know when my presence is urgently needed.

[seaboard]

Oh yes.

Because I intend to drink, if you arrive after the wine runs out, you have been warned.

[choicely]

Are you saying I should bring more wine with me?

[seaboard]

Since I think you are just about the only woman I have met that can drink as deeply as I can - definitely.

[ lets get fucked up, yen. ]

[choicely]

Before I arrive: does your house have any wards on it, like Ianthe's does?

[ it seems a fair question to ask before she opens a portal between their homes to make the distance to travel a bit shorter. ]

[seaboard]

Not at all. Ianthe has left a skeleton minding outside of my house, but that is all.

Oh, and the goat. It will want food. Ignore it.

[choicely]

I'm well-acquainted with Ianthe's skeletal servants. Has she got it doing chores for you yet?

[seaboard]

Not as yet, I am afraid they would not quite do it all properly to my liking.

[choicely]

I didn't realize chores had to be that specific.

[seaboard]

That is because I suspect Ianthe never had a nursemaid that wrapped her knuckles for missing the corners tidying.

Or two five siblings always in need of neatening before said nurse-maid caught them.

[choicely]

Or tasked with seeing to the chores herself when they were deemed beneath others?

[ oh, when it comes to childhood labor, yennefer has STORIES. ]

[seaboard]

[ She starts laughing with that - then groans in sympathy. ]

If anyone tried that with Ianthe, I think she'd give them such a look, their insides would all fall out on the principle of the matter.

Punishment chores for something you definitely didn't do. My younger sister once got us all in trouble and we had to weave rash mats for hours in punishment for burning the old ones.

[choicely]

What about chores that were clearly someone else's to complete, but you ended up doing them yourself?

[seaboard]

Now that is a conversation that needs a whole keg of wine to talk about.

For it would surely include my brother, who ruled at the time? - all of his administrative duties.

[choicely]

And he wouldn't have been nearly as successful without you cleaning up his messes, would he?

[seaboard]

... His treason would have been noticed earlier, let us put it that way.

Do forgive me, I think my humour has become a blackened thing.

[choicely]

There's nothing wrong with that sort of humor every now and then.

It's how we endure the things that can be shit sometimes.

[seaboard]

I think that is why I like you so, Lady Yennefer, you talk like people at home.

I think you would like one of our jokes.

[choicely]

Tell me and find out.