It's not exactly envious speculation. Still, just for a moment, looking down at this spreadsheet and hearing Combeferre musing about what their other selves could do -- Combeferre, who wept and raged exhaustedly over the thousands he couldn't save, who died pierced by bayonets in their barricade's fall, who wasn't spared any of that agony despite everything Bossuet and Courfeyrac and Enjolras and even Grantaire tried to do -- hearing that, looking down at the spreadsheet, Enjolras can't help but spend a moment thinking of what might have been.
Only a moment. It's a waste of time to spend more, with more pressing matters to attend to.
"Yes," he says. "Yes, that's a very good notion. As I understand it, Bar can make sure that only they will receive it; I have no reason to mistrust that. But we can take further measures to ensure it if we think it's necessary, and still detail everything that's relevant to our own society. Beyond what any newspaper or history book would give them."
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Only a moment. It's a waste of time to spend more, with more pressing matters to attend to.
"Yes," he says. "Yes, that's a very good notion. As I understand it, Bar can make sure that only they will receive it; I have no reason to mistrust that. But we can take further measures to ensure it if we think it's necessary, and still detail everything that's relevant to our own society. Beyond what any newspaper or history book would give them."