[Jaskier can't help the smile because she's absolutely right. There's often nothing more terrifying to powerful men than a woman who knows the place he would have her in is beneath her. It's perhaps why Jaskier always held a certain amount of fondness for the Lioness of Cintra. She was the exact sort of woman men despised but remained as she was regardless of their whispered barbs. But that's all they ever had the courage to do because they knew better.]

[Because of how suddenly Ava asks about Destiny, Jaskier isn't entirely sure what inspired the question or where it will lead, but Jaskier's interest is immediately piqued by it.]

Well, Destiny always makes for a more interesting story. What is more dramatic than a fated meeting or an attempt at defying something that should be inevitable? [But to her actual question of whether or not he believes in it, Jaskier offers a bit of a shrug.] Beyond that... I don't know. I haven't ruled it out completely.