It's not as though she can train all day. At some point, she has to put her blade down and there's only so much energy (or frustration) for her magic lessons before those also must come to an end. And after all that, she's not left with much. She does a few chores here and there—those that Geralt trusts her to do because, frankly, being a princess doesn't lend itself well to knowing how to do those things terribly well—and then... There's really not much else to fill her time with. She can't go to the nearest village and hang about the market, hoping for a bit of conversation or even playing with some of the children younger than her. She can't go wandering off into the wilderness on her own whether because of monster or man.
She gets bored.
"Besides," she says, lifting her chin in that way only a precocious child would ever do. "It's not as though the two of you are subtle about it."
...There might also be a few orens riding on when the two of them finally push past everything with one another with the bard. Ciri will never tell. But they do stare at one another longingly often enough that what? Ciri is supposed to just shut her eyes and pretend she doesn't see it?
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It's not as though she can train all day. At some point, she has to put her blade down and there's only so much energy (or frustration) for her magic lessons before those also must come to an end. And after all that, she's not left with much. She does a few chores here and there—those that Geralt trusts her to do because, frankly, being a princess doesn't lend itself well to knowing how to do those things terribly well—and then... There's really not much else to fill her time with. She can't go to the nearest village and hang about the market, hoping for a bit of conversation or even playing with some of the children younger than her. She can't go wandering off into the wilderness on her own whether because of monster or man.
She gets bored.
"Besides," she says, lifting her chin in that way only a precocious child would ever do. "It's not as though the two of you are subtle about it."
...There might also be a few orens riding on when the two of them finally push past everything with one another with the bard. Ciri will never tell. But they do stare at one another longingly often enough that what? Ciri is supposed to just shut her eyes and pretend she doesn't see it?