Why do you think that is, Armitage? [ yennefer has her theories. it helps her feel a little better, displacing onto him her instability and outrage over how she can always have power but never control. no. that's not feeling better. that's only distraction. it serves the same purpose, in the end.

she has always found hux too greasy and pathetic to be considered rightfully handsome, but with his hair in disarray and his clothes battered, one might be convinced he had actually worked a day in his life. he does not look like the man who stands at the edge of the conflict out of cowardice and to avoid dirtying his hands, like this. such was the result of actually hurling himself into the conflict down in the city. the potential for him to be attractive is there. it's just his personality that ruins it, apparently. ]

Is it cowardice? To stand as close as you can to the most powerful people you can find, so they can protect you while you don't have that power yourself? Or is it just the comfortably familiar that attracts you? I think you were born like this. You may even die like this.