[Wow, rude. His looks always deserve to be studied closely!
Her pause worries him for a second, but then she says yes and relief makes his shoulders drop. If she hadn't gotten her powers it wouldn't have been as big of a deal here as it would've been at home, and besides, she would've gotten different ones, but still. She wouldn't have taken it well, he knows, and the last thing he wants is seeing her again as he saw her in Oxenfurt, or how she had given up herself for the mother bitch. Not again, not on his watch.
As he nods, he squeezes her wrist before letting go to say both good and show he had been just checking, no ulterior motive. Just worry, although he isn't sure she'd appreciate him worrying over her. He's not sure he would like to say it aloud anyway.
That question, though. It shakes him.]
...huh. [Here comes the rubbing of his fingers again as he fidgets.] I suppose it wouldn't hurt, but I doubt you'd be successful. Many a person here has abilities like yours and haven't found an answer. Mayhap chaos would recognize a conjunction happening...?
[But then what? Does he want to go back? But it's so much better here. If she manages to open a portal... well, they could drag Geralt and Cirilla, perhaps the other witchers too, instead of having to wait for them. And the Continent could go fuck itself.
But that's too much philosophy for now. Gotta live in the present. Jaskier shakes his head and his hands, gotta go back to his point.]
This local conjunction sometimes modifies people's original powers, and you were already in a- mmh, well-- delicate position? [She had just gotten her powers back and as far as he knew they could be a time bomb, he means.] But others get to keep them - like you, apparently. That's great, that's fucking great. [Then he starts grinning slowly.] And to those poor normal human souls that could only watch as gods and goddesses did their thing-- [He opens his arms.] The conjunction grants them magic on arrival.
[He'll let her put two and two together just to enjoy her reaction.]
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Her pause worries him for a second, but then she says yes and relief makes his shoulders drop. If she hadn't gotten her powers it wouldn't have been as big of a deal here as it would've been at home, and besides, she would've gotten different ones, but still. She wouldn't have taken it well, he knows, and the last thing he wants is seeing her again as he saw her in Oxenfurt, or how she had given up herself for the mother bitch. Not again, not on his watch.
As he nods, he squeezes her wrist before letting go to say both good and show he had been just checking, no ulterior motive. Just worry, although he isn't sure she'd appreciate him worrying over her. He's not sure he would like to say it aloud anyway.
That question, though. It shakes him.]
...huh. [Here comes the rubbing of his fingers again as he fidgets.] I suppose it wouldn't hurt, but I doubt you'd be successful. Many a person here has abilities like yours and haven't found an answer. Mayhap chaos would recognize a conjunction happening...?
[But then what? Does he want to go back? But it's so much better here. If she manages to open a portal... well, they could drag Geralt and Cirilla, perhaps the other witchers too, instead of having to wait for them. And the Continent could go fuck itself.
But that's too much philosophy for now. Gotta live in the present. Jaskier shakes his head and his hands, gotta go back to his point.]
This local conjunction sometimes modifies people's original powers, and you were already in a- mmh, well-- delicate position? [She had just gotten her powers back and as far as he knew they could be a time bomb, he means.] But others get to keep them - like you, apparently. That's great, that's fucking great. [Then he starts grinning slowly.] And to those poor normal human souls that could only watch as gods and goddesses did their thing-- [He opens his arms.] The conjunction grants them magic on arrival.
[He'll let her put two and two together just to enjoy her reaction.]