{ don't pretend you care, bard. the words are at the tip of her tongue but yennefer considers herself good at reading people, it was one of the many things beyond magic she was taught to do, and he doesn't seem mocking. he doesn't seem to be delighting in her distress as he might have in the past -- he seems legitimately concerned and she has no idea what to do with that. she decides to avoid the first question (for now), and focus on the second)

One of the lords here, Barbas, brainwashed a large group of us for two months. Made us believe we were natives here, demons who were doing our parts. He put us into families that we believed to be legitimate.

(and that part still stings as much as the rest of it, considering how much yennefer had wanted children. she still feels an attachment to waverly and hazel that she doesn't know what to do with. and being married to geralt and the illusion that they could be happy for a time and end not because of self destruction but other forces? well that's a whole other can of worms. there are a lot of cans of worms here. nothing but worms.)