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Romantic Confessions

ROMANTIC CONFESSIONS

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[ I'm canon familiar with the books and show - and Camilla here is canon-prone to semi-religious devotion, if that strikes your fancy! ]

Edited 2023-06-09 01:28 (UTC)

[ I'm canon familiar with Yen, and I think she and Cam could have really fun chemistry - how would you feel about 'young knight Camilla pledges herself to Yennefer (because she's cute)' as a concept? Also open to any other ideas! ]

[ i am absolutely here for this! :) the concept of knight and mage is probably one of my all time favorites, so yes definitely let's roll with this! ]

[ It's one of my favorites too...should I go ahead with Cam doing a whole confession along the lines of 'you're so cool and competent and beautiful'? I'm very open to input on the shape of the devotion she puts forth here! ]

[ go with whatever you feel drawn toward! we can say they've been traveling together for a couple months or so, enough time for yen to get a general sense of who she is and for them to know each other beyond the surface level basics. yen's cagey initially, but a declaration of loyalty (that she can sense is genuine) would go over well, especially if cam has proven through her actions that she's reliable, etc. ]

[ OOC: a few months to establish a reliable dynamic sounds great to me, and Cam's loyalty is so tragically genuine. Please ping me in DMs if you want any tweaks on this starter! ]

[ By virtue of her sex, Camilla cannot be a Witcher.

The precise details of this distinction may bend, may break, but for her, they hold firm. She is Camilla Hect, a child of Aedirn. She is Camilla Hect, a child who is a woman, and a woman without magic or heritage, and therefore so little of a person at all to be of no account in any story. She is Camilla, and she is hardly anyone, and that means so little.

She is Camilla Hect, a child of Aedirn. She is Camilla Hect, the left hand of Yennefer of Vengerberg, for the scant, sweet time Yennefer has tolerated Camilla as her left hand. She is Camilla Hect, and her heart is a hard red coal in her chest, and she doesn't know where she may put it as she goes to her knee in her lady's tent. ]

...my lady.

[ Cam looks up from where she's crouched, too frightened to crease her lower lip with her own teeth. Her face is open and guileless, vulnerable and unlined. ]

My lady, I would ask your ear.

[ ooc: it's absolutely perfect! feel free to PM me whenever for plot things/questions/etc! ]

[ Yennefer's hand on the brush she pulls through her dark locks stills when Camilla enters her tent, setting it aside atop the bed as she stands to face her; her features void of any emotion positive or negative. That she does not immediately send her away with a few sharp words uttered in irritation is significant, however subtle it might seem. ]

You have it.

[ She glances down at the woman crouched at her feet, violet eyes keely assessing her every shift in expression. ]

Say what is on your mind.

[ What it might be, Yennefer does not know. She has never walked through the inner most corners of her mind, she's never had a reason to. Camilla was straight forward in her words and her manner, leaving Yennefer with little to guess at. Which she prefers. These past few months she has been the loyal blade at her side, never faltering, never complaining of the harsh and grueling conditions upon which they travel the wilds. She endures. And for that, she has garnered Yennefer's respect, as she respects few things more than strength.

Loyalty, perhaps, being at the utmost top of the list. ]

[ Camilla has been told she's inscrutable more than once, which is always a mild surprise to her. She has a tendency to imagine that all the restless motion animating her body speaks for her, that her actions express precisely what she means at all times.

When she stands behind Yennefer's elbow with her hands casually on the hilts of her long twin daggers, the people on the other end of her cool, dark gaze seem to understand her well enough. She'd managed to convince herself for a time that the same could be said for all the other ways she's put herself at Yennefer's service, all the little acts that mark her devotion. Water fetched, fires tended, fruit picked, a listening ear offered - aren't those proof enough?

But even as she did it, she knew that she was lying to herself. Some things need to be spoken, or they'll wither and die in the dark.

So. There's nothing for it. She braces herself through her knee, drawing up strength from the earth below, and swallows. ]

I've been thinking, lately, about what comes next, after all of this is over...and I have a proposal.

You should keep me in your service. [ Cam lifts her chin, a tendon popping in her jaw when her teeth briefly clench. ] Indefinitely.

[ What comes next. After all this is over. They're both statements that cause a slight crease between her brows, because she isn't thinking in those terms; at least not yet. Her focus is set firmly in the moment.

Her mission from day one has been made quite clear - she's searching for Ciri, and the lengths she's gone to in order to find her have stopped short at nothing. Not torture, murder, not even temporarily raising the dead in order to gain a paltry amount of information on the young girl's whereabouts.

The after part is something she'll only allow herself to dwell on when Ciri is safe and sound. That Camilla has helped her all these months in this particular mission, never judging or holding her back; is something Yennefer assumed would be short lived. As most arrangements like these were. So her proposal is met with a look of puzzlement. ]

That is a strong word, indefinitely. Very final.

[ Yennefer is practical to a fault, so initially she thinks - perhaps it's money. Ambition of some sort. Perhaps there's something she wants from her that only a sorceress of her capacity can offer. ]

Why would you want that?

[ Yennefer's chin lifts slightly; defiance, guardedness. Old habits, really. An upbringing like hers didn't gift one with an abundance of trust for the motives of others; even for the tentative trust she did feel toward Camilla. ]

[Can be to either identity, or knowing she's both.]

Edited (oops title) 2023-06-09 22:24 (UTC)

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