Enjolras makes a small gesture, not negation but qualification, even as his own quieter joy shows in response.
"Books. From people, it's harder to say -- I've heard similar from some, but it's hard to say who's from our world, and who from another Earth, merely similar. Though it's heartening to know that, as well. But I asked for a book of the history of my own France, to be certain. The Bar -- it's a fantastic mechanism, I don't understand it in the least but it's been reliable -- it assured me that the provenance was correct."
There were horrors in that book. Many of them he grieves still, even from this distance of decades and death.
But to know this -- to know this, to be able to tell it to his friends, to think of what it means for France and for humanity -- it's worth any price he could ever have paid.
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Date: 2014-12-12 09:08 pm (UTC)"Books. From people, it's harder to say -- I've heard similar from some, but it's hard to say who's from our world, and who from another Earth, merely similar. Though it's heartening to know that, as well. But I asked for a book of the history of my own France, to be certain. The Bar -- it's a fantastic mechanism, I don't understand it in the least but it's been reliable -- it assured me that the provenance was correct."
There were horrors in that book. Many of them he grieves still, even from this distance of decades and death.
But to know this -- to know this, to be able to tell it to his friends, to think of what it means for France and for humanity -- it's worth any price he could ever have paid.