[ Ciri has trouble meeting his eyes at first, but she pushes herself to, holding his gaze. She nods. ]

I wouldn't have come here otherwise.

I have it on good authority. Someone in Thorne.

She... disappeared. Like the others.

[ Ciri doesn't give him more details than that, mostly because she doesn't know anything else. No one has been able to pinpoint exactly how people just seem to vanish into thin air. But by now, they're all aware that it... it happens. Sometimes, it just happens.

Ciri might have a lot of mixed feelings about the specifics of what Yennefer is doing in Thorne, but she's certain of this: Yennefer isn't lying to her. To her best knowledge, Alina has vanished, and it's not like she simply ran away again. ]

I wanted to tell you. Face to face. I think-- it's what she would have preferred.