pro_patria_mortuus: Enjolras in profile, head bowed, rifle in hand. (marble lover of liberty)
Enjolras ([personal profile] pro_patria_mortuus) wrote 2015-06-20 11:17 pm (UTC)

Enjolras makes a grimace of understanding. "Yes. We fought for a world where that was unnecessary. And here -- a quiet afterlife, and out the door are worlds at peace, and also worlds of horrors and injustice. I don't know what's best, either."

"I've had the same kind of thoughts. And the guns of our day are pitiful things beside the advances of the future, but -- but to learn how to use them, to seek out that knowledge, that's a skill for a certain kind of purpose."

In life, he wouldn't have hesitated to take any such advantage. But in life, he had a battle worth fighting, that was his to fight as much as any other French citizen's, any other member of humanity's. To seek out someone else's battle is something else. And yet standing aside is its own choice, too.

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