TO: EVERYONE AT AROUND 12:15 AM

[magicalarchaeologist]

There is a military coup happening in Thorne. Admiral Sidwell has made a play for the crown that seems to be succeeding. The Summoned are currently being evacuated into safe rooms along with natives.

I thought this information best to be shared with all Summoned.

[He doesn't plan on bringing up how the doors are warded shut. That's for other people to say. This is all about information sharing, Istredd has other things to worry about.]

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[magicalarchaeologist]

[ It occurs to him he's never talked this long in a nice way with Ciri so they've never gotten around to talking about personal lives. ]

He's my partner, like Yennefer is.

[wiedzminka]

[ Don't compare her mom to Lucifer?? Now's not really the time to poke fun at him over it though. Istredd gets out lucky, this time. ]

Whatever you say.

If you've insisted on taking up the mantle of Protector of the Summoned in Thorne, that's your choice.

[ She doesn't say whether she thinks it's a noble one or not, but she does think of River. And Wilhelm. She can understand why Istredd felt that way. ]

Try not to get killed.

[magicalarchaeologist]

They're my people, more so than the Brotherhood ever was.

It sounds like you care if I die or not. That's a nice change.

[ He's teasing! Carefully! ]

[wiedzminka]

[ That is a sentiment she can understand, and... approves of. It's not something she expected him to actually say. But after their shared dreams together, the time they spent that didn't really happen, Ciri knows they found more common ground than not. Eventually. How much of that is based on real feelings, even if it didn't actually occur in truth, is still up for interpretation. Despite that, the 'memories' remain, jumbled as they are, and a certain understanding of one another that feels unearned yet at the same time, not wrong.

And Yennefer does trust him. That doesn't count for nothing in Ciri's estimation. ]

I'd rather avoid the annoyances it would cause.

[ That's all. And now's not the time to really discuss it further, anyway. He can take that small concession for what it is. ]