Enjolras considers the question seriously, and at some length, as they stroll onward.
It's not something he's asked himself. It hadn't occurred to him. Certainly he's thought about his other self often enough, but it's always been about the cause, their France, their hopes and their chances; even when he's thought about more personal details of that other self's life, he hasn't asked himself what he'd share of it if he could.
(What he'd have of it if he could: France, with his friends alive at his side, and the ability to strive for her sake.)
"I don't know."
"In that world, that -- version of myself, he had never known anything but life with Jeanne beside him. I've only ever known myself with all my heart and soul inside of me. Intangible, imperceptible. In either case, I'm complete as I've always been."
"If I... acquired her somehow, if it merely happened, then so it would be. I don't mean that I'd object. But I don't feel the need to have her as an eagle outside my body. My soul isn't altered or lessened by its location. And the greatest flight is that of the mind's ideals, in any world."
He doesn't know if Prouvaire agrees on the heart of this, but he's sure that whether or not he does, they see the matter very differently. That's all right. It's one of the reasons he values Prouvaire's friendship so deeply.
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It's not something he's asked himself. It hadn't occurred to him. Certainly he's thought about his other self often enough, but it's always been about the cause, their France, their hopes and their chances; even when he's thought about more personal details of that other self's life, he hasn't asked himself what he'd share of it if he could.
(What he'd have of it if he could: France, with his friends alive at his side, and the ability to strive for her sake.)
"I don't know."
"In that world, that -- version of myself, he had never known anything but life with Jeanne beside him. I've only ever known myself with all my heart and soul inside of me. Intangible, imperceptible. In either case, I'm complete as I've always been."
"If I... acquired her somehow, if it merely happened, then so it would be. I don't mean that I'd object. But I don't feel the need to have her as an eagle outside my body. My soul isn't altered or lessened by its location. And the greatest flight is that of the mind's ideals, in any world."
He doesn't know if Prouvaire agrees on the heart of this, but he's sure that whether or not he does, they see the matter very differently. That's all right. It's one of the reasons he values Prouvaire's friendship so deeply.