*cough*
Talking with Yennefer at Kaer Morhen
- Giving the crystal skull back, she lost in the cinematic opening
- Giving her the megascope crystal, found in Philippa's hideout
- Asking her about the past, what she did after Geralt freed her
- Asking how she feels after lifting his last wish
Geralt.
Found something that might be yours.
Found something that might belong to you.
That skull some sort of accessory? If so, you've changed your style a bit.
It's a weapon.
Don't remember ever seeing you with that.
It's as you said - I've changed my style.
A bit strange to be honest, but not that far-fetched, since she always used birds (or in particular black kestrels, not ravens).
Sword of Destiny
‘What’s that, Yen? How did it get here?’
‘What?’ Yennefer turned her head. ‘Oh, that. It’s a kestrel.’
‘A kestrel? Kestrels are rufous and speckled, and that one’s black.’
‘It’s an enchanted kestrel. I made it.’
Just another use of them, though a bit weird that there is nothing more to it. In the few fights she has, she always uses lightning bolts.
I wanna talk about the past, the Wild Hunt.
Ever think about the past? About your time with the Hunt?
At times... I'm amazed we survived. Eredin's not usually one to leave witnesses behind.
That's just it, he didn't. Lost my memory when I escaped the Hunt.
Ah yes, your famous amnesia...
You didn't have it?
For a short time only. Once the emperor's mages got their hands on me, my memory quickly returned.
Soo.
If only Geralt had mages around him to help with his amnesia, oh wait, but I guess Geralt with amnesia was better than without it... Good thing it isn't mentioned any time again, like ever.
Your time with the Hunt - what do you remember?
When the Hunt had you... hope they didn't hurt you.
Even if they did, I've no memory of it. The whole time's but a string of phantom images. Blood and fire... a wild chase through different worlds... all shrouded in fog.
Though I do remember you coming for me, trading your life for mine. I hadn't the chance to thank you then.
You'd 'ave done the same for me.
I'm touched by your certainty. But you've yet to tell me how you escaped them.
Wouldn't mind knowing that myself. There are times I remember rushing forward, Red Riders around me. Next thing I know, I'm in the woods at the foot of Kaer Morhen. That's it.
Yup, that's something that can get lost in this dialogue.
The sheer reason why we have the games and how they are with its amnesia, is because Geralt offered his life in exchange for hers to the king of the Wild Hunt. Without him doing that, he wouldn't have amnesia and the games would have gone a whole different way.
Witcher 1 would have been entirely about looking for Yennefer and rescuing her from the Wild Hunt, oh, what could have been
And it's nice to hear that Geralt is certain that she would have done the same, readers knew that already, but at that time he was already unconscious, so he didn't know:
The Lady of the Lake
'it is too late for a doctor,' Triss said, surprising herself that her voice sounded so calm. 'He is dying.'
Geralt continued to stir, coughing blood, then becoming very tense and froze. Dandelion, still holding Triss, sighed in despair, the dwarf cursed. Yennefer moaned, her face changing suddenly, contracted and ugly.
'There is nothing more pathetic,' said Ciri sternly, 'than a sorceress in tears. You taught me that. But now you're pathetic Yennefer. You and your magic, which is useless.'
Yennefer did not reply. She could barely hold Geralt's head in both of her hands, while repeating a spell. In her hands, the witcher's cheeks and forehead crackled with blue sparks.
Triss know how much energy was required for that spell. She also knew that the spell would not help. She was even more confident that the spell would prove powerless for someone who was sterile. It was too late. The spell only exhausted Yennefer. Triss was surprised that the black-haired sorceress was able to withstand for so long.
Then she ceased to be surprised because Yennefer stopped in the middle of the magic formula and fell on the pavement next to the witcher.
It's just my interpretation, but since they share the fate, she died with him, trying to save him.
Live, love and die together.
It's also interesting that through the whole dialogue they keep looking at each other, mostly eye-contact, but not here:
She avoids looking at him at this point and only here, why?
Does she remember what she did in the past? For Ciri and Geralt? Is she so embarassed that she can't hold eye-contact thinking about it? That she would do that for someone?
The Tower of the Swallow
‘Are you ready now?’ Asked the squirrel. ‘Are you willing to sacrifice? What are you willing to sacrifice?’
‘I have nothing!’ The pain blinded and paralyzed her. ‘And even if I had anything I do not believe in the meaning of such sacrifice! I do not want to suffer for millions! I do not want to suffer at all! For anybody!’
‘No one wants to suffer. But that is the fate of each. And some suffer more. Not necessarily of their own volition. It's not about to enduring the suffering. It's about how you endure it.’
...
‘Instead of me laughing at Geralt, I could try his method.’
‘I do not understand.’
‘I could try to sacrifice myself. Sacrifice will pay off, yes, show good character… And it is in the shape of the grace of a goddess. She loves and appreciates those who sacrifice and suffer for a cause.’
He frowned. ‘I still do not understand. But I don't like what you are saying, Yennefer.’
‘I know. Me neither. But I've already gone too far… Perhaps the lion should hear the lamb’s complaint…’
She never suffered for anybody else, she never sacrificed anything for anybody else, she never let others be a burden for her,
except for Ciri and Geralt.
She suffered months for Ciri and she died trying to save Geralt, and she would do the same again.
Never before a person had so much influence on her than this two persons, to the point where she would sacrifice her own life for them.
She was even willing to commit suicide with Geralt, well knowing that Ciri will be safe then.
The Lady of the Lake
‘The secret must die along with those who know it, you said so yourself. You have no other way out. There are no other solutions. If I escape from prison I’ll come for Ciri. It is the price I must pay and you know it.’
‘I know it.’
‘You can spare Yennefer’s life. She does not know the secret.’
‘She,’ Emhyr said seriously, ‘would pay any price to take my Ciri. And to avenge your death.’
‘True,’ said the witcher. ‘I almost forgot how much she loves the girl. You’re right, Duny. We cannot escape our destiny. I have a request …’
...
‘Do you believe,’ the Emperor said quietly, ‘that the Lady Yennefer would accompany you in the tub?’
‘I’m pretty sure. But I will have to ask. She has quite a rebellious nature.’
‘I know.’
***
Yennefer agreed without hesitation.
‘Full circle,’ she said, staring speculatively at her wrist. ‘Uroboros is biting his own tail.’
***
‘I don’t understand,’ Ciri spluttered like an angry cat, ‘I don’t see why I should go with him! Why? Where are you going?’
...
‘We appreciate it,’ Yennefer said seriously. ‘Imperial Majesty?’
‘I’m listening.’
‘I would ask you not to hurt my daughter. I do not want to die with the notion that she is crying.’
Emhyr was silent for a time. A very long time. He bowed his head and leaned on the door.
‘Lady Yennefer,’ he finally said, an unreadable expression on his face. ‘You can be sure that I will not hurt yours and Geralt’s daughter. I have trampled the corpses of people and danced on the barrows of my enemies. I thought that was all I could look forward to. But your suspicions are unfounded - will never be able to hurt her. I know that now. Thank you to you both. Goodbye.’
She agreed without hesitation.
Don't forget that once she was like any other sorcerer selfish and cold, but that changed due Geralt and Ciri, even to the point where she is willing to die with him without any hesitation, as long she is with him and Ciri is safe.
Emhyr also knew that she would do
anything to avenge him or Ciri, no matter what.
What is that saying about her character?
Yennefer and Geralt have trust-issues? No, in fact it looks like they know each other very well, so well that he is certain that she would have done the same for him.
Sometimes it are the small lines in such dialogues, which have the biggest meaning.
What'd the Wild hunt want from you?
What'd Erefin want from you, exactly?
The same thing he wanted from you. You don't recall?
Draw a blank on most of my time with them.
We were bait, Geralt. both of us. Eredin believed Ciri would come for us sooner or later, and he would capture her.
Fortunately, she didn't fall for it.
What a surprise, guess Geralt forgot he ever encountered Alvin and why the Wild Hunt was after him, too...
What happened in Nilfgaard?
How'd you go from being the emperor's hostage to being his ally?
One day, the door my cell opened, and instead of seeing the usual officer, I saw Emhyr.
He promised to release me and grant me free reign of the imperial treasury - provided I did what he asked.
He told you about Ciri, and you accepted his offer. Why?
Shared aims make for strange bedfellows.
I knew I had to find Ciri before Eredin did. And if any man had the power and the means to help me, it was the emperor.
Besides, once all's said and done, he is her father.
So the whole reason why she was released was only because of Ciri and Emhyr needed her help.
Why did she accept? Just like she said, Emhyr had the power and the means, so why not use it?
Having an emperor behind your back is also giving you access to a lot of things, too, especially if it looks like he is winning the war.
Why didn't you look for me?
Why didn't you look for me after you'd recovered your memory and your freedom?
I assumed you would recover quickly and find me first.
You had mages to help you, I was on my own.
Well, not entirely... Besides, I knew you'd fled the Hunt - Eredin would never have let you go. He'd erased my memory, but you escaped - it was wholly possible he hadn't had the chance with you.
And there were your witcher mutations - I expected they'd stave off any serious injury.
Well, oh well.
So why exactly wasn't Geralt looking for her? Oh right, nobody helped him getting rid of his amnesia, despite having a sorceress and witcher friends at his side, while she was in a prison cell...and when he regained his memory and learned the truth, he left Triss and rode off to look for her.
Just earlier I said she knows what he is doing all the time (she even helps him in the books without him knowing) and it looks like even here she knows everything. "
I knew you'd fled the Hunt", how did she knew that? Nobody except Geralt and his friends knew, including Triss, who was still a member of the Lodge at the beginning of the games. Most likely she reported that to them and so the whole Lodge knew it, Yes, she does that, we saw it in Witcher 1.
We know Yennefer had contact to Fringilla among others, other mages or nilfgaardian spies like Cynthia, which knew that Geralt was once a Rider of the Wild Hunt, a story element Witcher 3 never picked up again...
She was being informed about her witcher all the time though I doubt she contacted Triss for obvious reason.
She knew he was among friends and she knew that he was making out with Triss, just like she knew that about Carol and Triss in the books. She just has her sources
So why didn't she went after him? Because she isn't his mother, even when Ciri was missing in the books, she didn't look for Geralt, she went looking for Ciri (and so did Geralt at first by the way):
The Tower of the Swallow
‘I repeat, Ciri is not in Nilfgaard. And what my witcher, as you call him, intends to do, I do not know. But he… Crach, it's no secret that he and I… that I am sympathetic to him. But I know he will not save Ciri. He will achieve nothing. I know him. He’ll get caught up, lost in his own philosophizing, and wallow in self pity. He’ll vent his anger and hack at anyone and anything he comes across. Then, in expiation, he’ll do some grand, but pointless deed. In the end, he’ll be slain, stupidly and needlessly, most likely by a stab in the back.’
‘It is said’, Crach threw in quickly, frightened by the ominous changes and strange trembling voice of the sorceress, ‘that Ciri is his destiny. I've seen it myself, back in Cintra, at Pavetta’s betrothal…’
‘Predestination,’ Yennefer sharply interrupted him, ‘can be interpreted in different ways. Very different ways. However, time is too precious for such discussions. I repeat, I do not know what he's up to and whether Geralt intends anything. I accept that. In my own way. And act, Crach, act. I do not care to sit here, crying and holding my head in my hands. I will act!’
...
‘I think so too. But I'm feeling that the witcher, contrary to what you think, is perhaps pursuing some cunning plan. That he is going to save Ciri from the Nilfgaardian creeps…’
‘Ciri is not in Nilfgaard. And Geralt does not pursue any plan. Planning is not one of his strong points. ...
Geralt can take care of himself (or not), he did that for 100 years, he will survive another week, but Ciri?
Blood of the Elves
“Well,” said the priestess finally, wiping her eye with the sleeve of her robe, “now go. May the Great Melitele protect you on your way, my dears. But the goddess has a great many things on her mind, so look after yourselves too. Take care of her, Yennefer. Keep her safe, like the apple of your eye.”
“I hope” – the magician smiled faintly – “that I’ll manage to keep her safer.”
In the books he really didn't achieve anything to rescue Ciri, he came across a secret meeting and learned where Yennefer was kept captive. It was almost pure coincedence that he learned that and after getting this information he left his current lover and went after Yennefer, an uncanny resemblance what happened after Witcher 2
The game, well, you
are playing Geralt, so everything is focussed on you, so of course everything depends on you, but in the original story he was completely lost and Yennefer knew that, why? Because she knows Geralt.
She does say in the game that he is the "best tracker" she knows, but if I look at what he achieved in the books, he was quite miserable at this, while Yennefer actually found Vilgefortz' hideout. So Yennefer achieved more in less time than Geralt, but since the player is playing Geralt, he has to be the key player in the story of course.
But why didn't Yennefer at least contact him with a letter? Well, she did.
It's actually a nice reference to the books, where she wrote a similar letter. For the context Geralt haven't talked to her in years and last time he left her without a word.
The Blood of Elves
The mist thinned a little. Geralt extracted another letter from his bag, one he had recently received from a strange courier. He had already read it about thirty times.
Dear friend…
The witcher swore quietly, looking at the sharp, angular, even runes drawn with energetic sweeps of the pen, faultlessly reflecting the author’s mood. He felt once again the desire to try to bite his own backside in fury. When he was writing to the enchantress a month ago he had spent two nights in a row contemplating how best to begin. Finally, he had decided on “Dear friend.” Now he had his just deserts.
Dear friend, your unexpected letter – which I received not quite three years after we last saw each other – has given me much joy. My joy is all the greater as various rumours have been circulating about your sudden and violent death. It is a good thing that you have decided to disclaim them by writing to me; it is a good thing, too, that you are doing so so soon. From your letter it appears that you have lived a peaceful, wonderfully boring life, devoid of all sensation. These days such a life is a real privilege, dear friend, and I am happy that you have managed to achieve it.
I was touched by the sudden concern which you deigned to show as to my health, dear friend. I hasten with the news that, yes, I now feel well; the period of indisposition is behind me, I have dealt with the difficulties, the description of which I shall not bore you with.
It worries and troubles me very much that the unexpected present you received from Fate brings you worries. Your supposition that this requires professional help is absolutely correct. Although your description of the difficulty – quite understandably – is enigmatic, I am sure I know the Source of the problem. And I agree with your opinion that the help of yet another magician is absolutely necessary. I feel honoured to be the second to whom you turn. What have I done to deserve to be so high on your list?
Rest assured, my dear friend; and if you had the intention of supplicating the help of additional magicians, abandon it because there is no need. I leave without delay, and go to the place which you indicated in an oblique yet, to me, understandable way. It goes without saying that I leave in absolute secrecy and with great caution. I will surmise the nature of the trouble on the spot and will do all that is in my power to calm the gushing source. I shall try, in so doing, not to appear any worse than other ladies to whom you have turned, are turning or usually turn with your supplications. I am, after all, your dear friend. Your valuable friendship is too important to me to disappoint you, dear friend.
Should you, in the next few years, wish to write to me, do not hesitate for a moment. Your letters invariably give me boundless pleasure.
Your friend Yennefer
The letter smelled of lilac and gooseberries.
Geralt cursed.
His choice of word will haunt him forever
Anyway, you shouldn't forget how huge the continent is and how mails actually work in this world.
You have either a magical messenger, messages transmitted through mages and their megascopes, or traditional messengers, those who memorize the letter, word by word, and ride to their destination to deliver the message. This can take weeks depending from where to where he has to ride.
What do we know?
In winter solstice 1270 Midinvaerne. Geralt trades his soul for her, the King of The Wild Hunt releases Yennefer and takes Geralt with him.
Already in April 1271 Letho kills Foltest. That means in this period of time Nilfgaard captured Letho, Yennefer & Co. and turned Letho into an assassin, while Yennefer was still in prison.
In July 1271 Geralt arrives at Loc Muinne and regains his memory and learns the truth about his former live and that Yennefer is still alive and where she is.
In August 1271 the war between Nilfgaard and the North starts.
In November 1271 Geralt returns to the Witcher's path.
In December 1271 Geralt receives Yennefer's letter.
In May 1272 Geralt and Vesemir arrive at White Orchard and meet Yennefer for the first time again.
Geralt says that he received her letter 6 months ago,
Spent the last six months in the saddle. Haven’t seen you for two years. Can’t we take a moment to---
that means December 1271, 4 months after the war started.
If it took Geralt 6 months (even though she tells him to hurry) to arrive at White Orchard, how long would a letter take from deep down in Nilfgaard to the North? Months at least, meaning she wrote that letter most likely barely weeks after being released from the prison.
She could have used her megascope to contact other sorceresses and ask them to deliver the message/letter, but why the hell would they do that? The Lodge didn't want Geralt to intervene in their plans and there aren't many other mages left to contact after what happened at Loc Muinne/the end of Witcher 2. Even the Lodge had troubles to contact their own members after that.
So in the end she tried to contact him as soon as possible with conventional means, a simple letter and a messenger. She didn't wait until her own methods failed and only then contacted Geralt to help her find Ciri, that would mean she did 6 months nothing except for waiting him to arrive, that's nuts. She can't sit calmy for 5 minutes doing nothing.
It is more than likely that she wrote this letter and while waiting for him she did everything she knew to find Ciri, but everything failed so she had to wait for Geralt in the end, but even then she rode towards north to meet him. So she was already looking for him, the same way Geralt was so far.
We also know that Yennefer contacted Fringilla, you can find her letter in Vizima, certainly she also contacted others, to get any information about Ciri and Geralt of course.
Even if Yennefer could contact other mages, what exactly should she ask? How is my witcher doing? And if she really contacted Triss, well, why would she help her?
But if she really had reached out for Triss, Yennefer would have mentioned it here in this dialogue, but the Lodge knew she was alive, we know that from Witcher 2. So it's quite possible all sorceresses in the Lodge knew it, including Triss, but why would Triss tell that to Geralt, he would ride off to her immediately. How do I know that? Because that's exactly what he did after Witcher 2, leaving Triss and looking for Yennefer.
Let's take a look at the letter from Fringilla:
She tried to contact her via megascope, but she only answered with a letter.
Her first question was about Ciri and her whereabouts, whether she knew anything.
Then Fringilla says somethings about Triss, so that was Yennefer's second question.
"Thank you for the news about Geralt"
Meaning she told Fringilla something about Geralt, but how does Yennefer even know something about him yet? She didn't meet him yet and she didn't have contact with him up to this point? So she knew from other sources what he was and is doing and she is keeping Fringilla up2date.
Conclusion:
She did contact Geralt as soon as possible with conventional methods, because others didn't work: She couldn't even get in touch with Fringilla via megascope, so she had to write a letter to her, too, meaning those letters take time. For comparison it took Geralt 6 months to arrive at White Orchard after receiving it and he is the "best tracker".
Furthermore the Lodge knew that Yennefer was alive, we already know that from Witcher 2, but what we didn't know was how they knew it and in my opinion it is more than likely that Yennefer herself was responsible for that by just contacting them to get information about Ciri.
She contacted everyone she knew to get information about Ciri including the Lodge. By contacting the Lodge she got access to information about Geralt as well, meaning she knew what he was doing. She told Fringilla about Geralt, otherwise she wouldn't be reacting to that with the "PS".
"He always seems to land on his feet, doesn't he?" also implies that she knew how the whole story ended in Witcher 2, because that's what she told Fringilla.
But why is she criticizing Geralt that he didn't look for her? In the books neither of them intentionally tried to make contact to each other,
fate did that for them, but it's a bit different now in the games.
The Wild Hunt captured Yennefer and then Geralt went looking for her, she just assumed he would the same again this time, but he didn't. Why? Well, it is obvious now, he had amnesia.
Why didn't Yennefer went looking for him? Well, she did, but in her own way, like she always does.
Yennefer knew...
...where Geralt was and where he is right now (how else could the letter arrive at Geralt, if she doesn't know where he might be)
...what he was doing the whole time (being a bodyguard for a king, failing in being a bodyguard, playing politics and losing it, but still "land on his feet").
...that he was among friends and a had an affair with Triss (*sigh*).
and that's exactly what she always did, she always knew what her witcher was doing and with whom.
In the end Geralt knew that Yennefer was in Nilfgaard (thanks to Letho (and Sheala) after Witcher 2) and Yennefer knew that Geralt was in the North (thanks to her sources).
Geralt left Triss for good and returned to the Witcher's Path without having much clue where exactly to find Yennefer, except in the south, in Nilfgaard (it's almost the same situation as in the books, he has no clue, but decides to just ride south).
Yennefer used her freedom and not only rode north, but also wrote him a letter where to meet him.
So saying that neither of them looked for each other is actually wrong, they did look for each other, it just took time.
Geralt, because he had amnesia and nobody cared to tell him about his former life.
Yennefer, because she was inprisoned and nobody cared to rescue her.
When Geralt regained his memory and learned about Yennefer, he decided to rode south without much clue, just like he always do.
When Yennefer regained her memory and freedom, she thinks first and acts then, meaning she wrote that letter to meet Geralt and while riding north, she contacts many other people to learn what is going on.
There is also the fact that he does indeed rescue her in the books in a similar situation (and again in the game), so of course she assumed he would do that again. He was free and among friends, she was in a prison cell and in the middle of enemies.
The sheer fact that neither of them is holding a grudge about it afterwards is actually speaking
for their relationship, it doesn't matter anymore, both had their troubles, but in the end it worked well anyway
Still can't get something out of my mind...
What?
Our encounter with the djinn - feeling any effects?
So, feel any different after our encounter with the djinn?
Yes. Now I feel… regret.
Mean to say that--?
That I regret we didn't try that earlier. Much earlier.
Think we would've argued less?
Quite the opposite. But the other moments would have been more intense as well.
Moments like this.
I still don't like it, it's uncessary and only implies that the wish had any emotional effect on them, which it didn't.
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Radovid wants me to find Philippa.
Got summoned by Radovid. He wants me to find Philippa.
What a king. Not only cruel, but naive as well. Did he truly believe you would help him?
I took the job.
Why?
She is clearly astonished by that, because she didn't expect that Geralt would do that ever. As I said, she knows him. What she didn't expect was the reason behind it. You can either say you did it for coin or because you care about that Owl, both options are rather unlikely for BookGeralt, but it changed due the games.
Same reason I do any job - for coin.
Promised a generous reward.
Oh, so the legendary monster hunter turns master head hunter, is that it?
Largely depends on what's in this.
Curious to see what happened to her.
Gotta say I'm curious what happened to her... And I didn't want any Redanians getting in my way while I tried to find out.
Look. Found this in Philippa's hideout.
A megascope crystal? Damn, it's cracked... but it could still work.
...Francesca's equally hesitant. Neither she nor Ida wishes to decide blindly.
They'll stop hesitating as soon as we convince Keira and Fringilla.
Fringilla's on our side. She'll join us as soon as she's finished some business in Nilfgaard.
Wonderful, that leaves Keira. The problem is, I've still no notion where she could be.
What about Yennefer and Triss?
Yennefer's never belonged to the Lodge, and Triss... Well, we shall see. I must regain my vision. I can go to Novigrad then to see Arthur de Vleester. The word is Triss is also carousing about the city.
You still insist? Phil, pardon my saying so, but you will never regenerate your eyes on your own.
Vilgefortz did it. I'm employing the same methold - cultivating tissue on precious stones.
It's madness... ...need... ...ower... ...ut your.... ...reat dange...
Dammit! That's it - I can't recover any more.
It's interesting to see how different Philippa's opinion is about Triss and Yennefer
What exactly were they talking about?
I hear right? They mention the Lodge?
Yes, and later Philippa said something about vision regeneration...
Think she was able to get her eyesight back?
Think Philippa pulled it off? Restored her eyesight?
It would be reckless, but not impossible. They seemed to say she was planning to implant tissue grown on previous stones.
Till now only Vilgefortz has ever managed. If she succeeded... well, I suppose congratulations would be in order.
Why would they talk about the Lodge?
Margarita mentioned Ida and Francesca, then Keira and Fringilla...
I've little doubt Philippa means to revive the Lodge of Sorceresses.
They weren't sure about Triss, excluded you right away...
I'd never agree to rejoin. Philippa believes only the Lodge can look after mages' interests effectively. I disagree and prefer to act alone.
Besides, the moment's inopportune. Reviving the Lodge would enrage both Radovid and the emperor. They're at a criitcal stage of their duel for influence, and neither would welcome a new player.
Hmm, she was a member of the Council before the Thanedd Coup, so she did participate in politics and not just alone, but as she said, she rather think and act on her own than letting others dictate her what to think or to do.
Wondering what to do with the crystal.
Hm... Wonder what I should do with the crystal...
It cannot fall into Radovid's hands, not under any circumstances. You'd better leave it with me.
Yeah, you keep it.
Right. It'll be safer with you.
Gotta take it to Radovid.
I accepted a job, plan to finish it as best I can. Crystal needs to go to Radovid.
Very, very bad idea. You could harm not only Philippa, but Triss, me...
Fine, keep the crystal.
Right. It'll be safer with you.
I'll give the crystal to Radovid.
Yen, I've decided. I'll give the crystal to Radovid.
You're making an error. but it is your decision.
Not much to say here except that you can decide to keep the crystal and even give it to Radovid, you can deny Yennefer's appeal to give the crystal to her, to keep it safe.
"... it is your decision"
She doesn't force him. It's his decision, your decision and she does respect that.
