"You can't use a spell to make yourself something nicer?" Ciri asks with an edge of bitterness to her voice. Despite Ciri's lack of overall contempt for Yennefer, that doesn't mean that it's been replaced with all that much pity either. But Ciri ends up wincing slightly all the same because the bitterness isn't really for Yennefer so much as she happens to be there at the time to receive it. Really, it's more self-directed than anything. No amount of encouragement from Yennefer masks that the magic lessons haven't been going well. And while she's maintained her skills with her blade, practicing her drills just as frequently as she was in Kaer Morhen, she hasn't had any opportunity to put them to use. They always run or Geralt says he'll handle it, and she's left waiting.

And now this. Being unable to convince Geralt that he doesn't need to hover quite so much. That if Yennefer had any further ill intent, she likely would have acted upon it by now.

It's difficult feeling so helpless and it's not something that she thinks Yennefer can really relate to. Not anymore now that she has her Chaos again.

So, it's hard not to be a touch bitter.