He's spent enough time turning over hypotheses, especially in the months before the others arrived. There's little enough data to support any of them, and no satisfactory answers; still, logic can be applied. (At times, it felt there was little else to do but apply logic to such questions without data.)
"Bahorel is here. Gavroche is here. Grantaire and I were not with the rest of you -- but he arrived months before I did, though we died in the same moment. Fauchelevent and the spy are both here -- and alive! -- and neither of them died with us. Other men we knew less well died alongside the rest of us, and in the same breath, and have not come."
"More and more of us who loved each other as well as brothers have come. I don't know if that's some underlying pattern, some recognition of love on the part of the universe, or if there's another pattern we haven't yet grasped. But I see no reason to believe that dying a street away, with us on his mind and him certainly on ours, would be any barrier."
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Date: 2014-12-14 10:26 pm (UTC)He speaks quietly, but with assurance.
He's spent enough time turning over hypotheses, especially in the months before the others arrived. There's little enough data to support any of them, and no satisfactory answers; still, logic can be applied. (At times, it felt there was little else to do but apply logic to such questions without data.)
"Bahorel is here. Gavroche is here. Grantaire and I were not with the rest of you -- but he arrived months before I did, though we died in the same moment. Fauchelevent and the spy are both here -- and alive! -- and neither of them died with us. Other men we knew less well died alongside the rest of us, and in the same breath, and have not come."
"More and more of us who loved each other as well as brothers have come. I don't know if that's some underlying pattern, some recognition of love on the part of the universe, or if there's another pattern we haven't yet grasped. But I see no reason to believe that dying a street away, with us on his mind and him certainly on ours, would be any barrier."