okay but jaskier being one of the few people that yennefer can’t read the mind of very effectively
specifically bc the bard’s thoughts are so fucking fast and seemingly disjointed that it gives her a fucking MIGRAINE to even try to get anything of use from in there
he’s being extra quiet one day, and she tries to take a peek, and it’s just the fucking medieval equivalent of the nyan cat song in the background along with a half-formed plan of a prank he wants to try along with a play he’s trying to write in his head based on one element of the prank he’s planning, which also makes him think of a hyper-clear memory of an embarassing thing he once did as a child all bound up with his thoughts about why some birds fly higher than others (bc he’d been thinking about that during the embarassing thing, too, and he just remembered it now) and how that could possibly translate into a poem and didn’t he just read a line in one the other day that-
yen has to go taking a fucking NAP from even the attempt of making sense of any of it
Consider this, yes, Jaskier was sleeping with a bottle of some alcoholic substance. Good evidence of him not coping with Rience’s torture. But also, Jaskier was saved specifically by Yennefer’s quick thinking skills, when she spits the bottle of so and so in Rience’s face.
To Jaskier, alcohol might not just be a chance to escape from bad memories, but it’s actually become a legitimate self defense weapon against the person who hurt him.
The Witcher Appreciation Week | Day 6: Favorite Quote I’ve lived two or three lifetimes already. But you haven’t been satisfied in any of them. I’ve tried. But I’ve no legacy to leave behind. No family. It’s time to accept that life has no more to give. You still have so much left to give.
