Bahorel nods. "He should know, maybe even more than us. As I say, for us, maybe it's nothing terribly serious-- but while there are others who can reach our world and time, it's worth knowing what stories they might be carrying back."

He frowns. "Especially because there are notes on some other barricades-- of ours, and in the future. Trials and collaborators named, from the year 1848. All settled and gone by the time the book published, but in our year-- no. And-- that spy is here."