The Witcher (TV Series)

Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials (2019)

Anya Chalotra: Yennefer

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• Yennefer : [Yennefer has failed to protect her two charges - a queen and her infant daughter- from an assassin. She has portaled away from the confrontation after the queen died trying to sacrifice her daughter in her own place; Yennefer killing the assassin, whose final blow killed the child. She sits alone on a sandy beach, looking out at the waves at sunset; she speaks to the dead child wrapped in blankets beside her]  "I'm sorry you didn't get a life. But truth be told, you're not missing much. I know, it's easy for me to say, with warm breath in my lungs, and you with nothing. Still. What would you have had?... Parents? Well they're the ones who wrote your last act, so not much loss there... . Friends? Most likely fair-weather... . Lovers? Fun for a bit, I'll admit. But all eventually disappoint... . And let's face it. You're a girl. Your mother was right about one thing. We're just vessels. And even when you're told you're special, as I was. As you would have been. We're still just vessels. For them to take, and take. Until we're empty. And alone... . So count yourself lucky. You've cheated the game. Won without even knowing it."

  [She turns to the baby's body and starts to pile sand over and around the tiny corpse, then whispers] 

  Yennefer : "Sleep well."

  [She finishes burying the child, then gets up and walks down the beach] 

• Yennefer : I love... that I traded everything to get my seat at court. I love that I believed that it would all be worth it, that this would be my legacy. The greatest mage to have ever graced a court. And I really, really love... that instead, I've gotten to spend the last three decades cleaning up stupid political messes. Glorified royal arse wiper.