You attacked her! For fuck's sake, Estinien, that's the same thing. [This isn't some backroom bar brawl, this is a measured, intentional response to Thorne's proximity to the Singularity.] Of course if you attack her, she's going to think you're trying to kill her. You've already tried to kill people in front of her.
[And as he says it, he begins to wonder if that's the problem. He, too, has seen Estinien attack someone. At the moment, he could not have cared less. If someone stuck a particularly sharp stick in Ambrose's side, well. It wouldn't have mattered as long as he and Geralt and Ciri were able to escape. He can't even say he cares much about what Yennefer does; but he knows that this path will earn Estinien an enemy in Geralt, which he doesn't want to happen.
He's been among people he understands so long, he's forgotten those he doesn't. If Estinien sees no other options than, what, vaguely mutilating people? Then it's... he wonders if how well he thought of the dragon was earned. With that soul in him that sings of bloodshed and vengeance, how much of that does Estinien take upon himself?
There are plenty of knights who live for it. For bloodshed. He had only hoped --
Jaskier shakes his head, taking a few steps backwards in frustration. Frustration that does not allow his body to stay still. What of next time? If someone else decides to kill the witch? Or she kills one of his friends in turn?]
Estinien. You cannot be so naive as to think Solvunn truly has no interest in the Singularity. Please. Their stance of nonintervention? You mean like sending people there to murder the Summoned from Thorne? That sort of nonintervention? Or did you invent that bright idea on your own?
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[And as he says it, he begins to wonder if that's the problem. He, too, has seen Estinien attack someone. At the moment, he could not have cared less. If someone stuck a particularly sharp stick in Ambrose's side, well. It wouldn't have mattered as long as he and Geralt and Ciri were able to escape. He can't even say he cares much about what Yennefer does; but he knows that this path will earn Estinien an enemy in Geralt, which he doesn't want to happen.
He's been among people he understands so long, he's forgotten those he doesn't. If Estinien sees no other options than, what, vaguely mutilating people? Then it's... he wonders if how well he thought of the dragon was earned. With that soul in him that sings of bloodshed and vengeance, how much of that does Estinien take upon himself?
There are plenty of knights who live for it. For bloodshed. He had only hoped --
Jaskier shakes his head, taking a few steps backwards in frustration. Frustration that does not allow his body to stay still. What of next time? If someone else decides to kill the witch? Or she kills one of his friends in turn?]
Estinien. You cannot be so naive as to think Solvunn truly has no interest in the Singularity. Please. Their stance of nonintervention? You mean like sending people there to murder the Summoned from Thorne? That sort of nonintervention? Or did you invent that bright idea on your own?