Combeferre's fingers tighten on the nightshirt, and he looks at Enjolras with a sudden wild grin.
It's not that he doubted this, ever, but to hear it confirmed, confirmed from Enjolras as a known fact--
"You know this? You've heard it from people from our world?" That 'all worlds' is intriguing, and is filed away for future inquiry.
Bossuet had spoken of people who had ready access to clean water, of people with much greater scientific knowledge, who could work miracles of health and healing, and that had been thrill enough for Combeferre to hear. But Bossuet had been, of necessity, frustratingly vague about many things, able only to say that he had encountered versions of Enjolras and Courfeyrac from 1832, and that they had told him of future pitfalls the Amis would encounter in their 1832 effort, and of ways to prevent cholera.
"There is proof?"
Take me to the books, he wants to say, if not my friends, then at least the papers and the documents that will show me what you speak of. He doesn't doubt Enjolras for a second, but he wants to see, and for a moment he feels almost awake again.
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It's not that he doubted this, ever, but to hear it confirmed, confirmed from Enjolras as a known fact--
"You know this? You've heard it from people from our world?" That 'all worlds' is intriguing, and is filed away for future inquiry.
Bossuet had spoken of people who had ready access to clean water, of people with much greater scientific knowledge, who could work miracles of health and healing, and that had been thrill enough for Combeferre to hear. But Bossuet had been, of necessity, frustratingly vague about many things, able only to say that he had encountered versions of Enjolras and Courfeyrac from 1832, and that they had told him of future pitfalls the Amis would encounter in their 1832 effort, and of ways to prevent cholera.
"There is proof?"
Take me to the books, he wants to say, if not my friends, then at least the papers and the documents that will show me what you speak of. He doesn't doubt Enjolras for a second, but he wants to see, and for a moment he feels almost awake again.