Guiding the Powerful Yet Incompetent, Thursday, Third Period

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"You have a tiny problem this week," Yennefer said, holding up her fingers an inch apart to demonstrate the near-invisible nature of the problem. "Some asshole of a sorcerer named Stregobor has arrived in the kingdom. Stregobor believes firmly in 'the Curse of the Black Sun,' whereby princesses born under a solar eclipse are cursed to be evil and bring forth the goddess Lilit upon the world, blah blah terrible internal mutations blah blah end of the world. It's unclear whether this is a real thing or not; most other sorcerers honestly think Stregobor is cracked up. Unfortunately, he is also very powerful, so...it's a problem.

"Now. It just so happens that the eldest princess of your kingdom was born under a lunar eclipse. Stregobor is concerned. He wants to verify for himself that she is not touched by the Curse of the Black Sun...which he can only do by examining her to look for those internal mutations I mentioned, AKA: by autopsy. A minor loss for the greater good, you understand, of course...except you don't. Not only are you protecting an innocent life, you need that girl. She's your best option for an heir if you ever decide to get rid of the king, and if you let some asshole passing through kill one princess, who's to say the others will ever trust you?

"Lucky for you, the king can't be bothered to deal with foreign sorcerers himself." Yennefer bared her teeth in a smile. "That's my job. So he has sent Stregobor to me, and therefore, to you. You can't kill him, tempting though it may be. He's too powerful and it would raise too many questions from the Council. So: how are you going to handle him?"

Comments

During the Lecture

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He wants to do what now?

Re: During the Lecture

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"If he's that powerful of a sorcerer he ought to be able to come up with a less fatal method of testing," Belle said.