‘Oh well,’ she said a moment later. ‘There’s no point beating about the bush. Witchers have never been highly thought of in our circles, so it sufficed to ignore you. At least up to a certain moment.’ ‘Until—’ he’d had enough of fudging ‘—I embarked on a romance with Yennefer.’ ‘No, no, you’re mistaken.’ She fixed eyes the colour of jade on him. ‘Twice over, actually. Primo, you didn’t embark on a romance with Yennefer, but she with you.

