Enjolras (
pro_patria_mortuus) wrote2015-01-07 03:04 pm
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There are a few exercise rooms scattered about Milliways, of various sorts and various levels of formal construction. A room with weights and a punching bag; a room with mirrors and a barre and strict signs about which shoes one is permitted to wear; a room with fewer mirrors, a closet full of various kinds of padding, another closet with practice implements like rods of wood and bamboo, a wood floor, mats of strange blue plastic to unfold or ignore.
It's in the last of these that Enjolras and Bahorel have been recently engaged in vigorous (and friendly) attempts to pummel each other.
It's in the last of these that Enjolras and Bahorel have been recently engaged in vigorous (and friendly) attempts to pummel each other.
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He didn't have the air of one willing to sacrifice his own life for the sake of besmirching the barricade's reputation. Javert took capture and the sentence of death with proud stoicism; Le Cabuc wept, pleaded, clutched at Enjolras's knees, seemed utterly undone by the idea that he might die for the crime of open murder.
The swallow of water is tasteless, despite the lemon floating in the glass.
Le Cabuc died, whatever he expected -- and he succeeded in barring doors and hearts to the revolutionaries, whether or not he would have considered that worth the price. But they knew that.
And maybe, on Bahorel's barricade, some of those doors opened after all. There's no way to know, so there can be hope.
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It shatters; Bahorel watches as the fire briefly flickers another color, and for a while longer. It is really very helpful.
When he speaks again, it's with a touch of real warmth. "Bossuet will be cross with me. He was very insistent that I tell the rest of you about this gently." Ridiculous, to try and be gentle about such things; but Bossuet would think to try, and that thought makes him grin in amusement and fondness.
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His voice holds a certain degree of both affection and dry amusement when he says, "Did you not?"
He has no objection to anything Bahorel said or did in the breaking of this news.
(He also doesn't yet realize some of what Bahorel was glossing over with that talk of a great deal of description of appearances and the like. But if he did, it wouldn't convince him that Bahorel hadn't approached the matter with rare and perhaps unnecessary discretion.)
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They'll all have plenty of cause to discuss the book and the concerns it raises with each other, based on this conversation.
The mention of Grantaire gets a curious look, but Enjolras doesn't press the question. If Bossuet is concerned for Grantaire, he may well have good reason; still, that doesn't necessarily mean it's a matter Enjolras needs to know about, or that Grantaire will want him to.
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" I'll get the more immediate passages copied out for us-- the mentions of 48, and so on. For the rest, I think it can wait until the others have a chance to read the book, if they want." He grins. "But I'm telling Jehan if he comes by. I won't forgive anyone who spoils that news." A joke, and not; he would want to see Jehan's immediate reaction, but he also knows he won't care all that much if it becomes a possibility.
"So that's the news of our day, or someone's, at any rate." He stands and stretches and heads for the food on the table. "What about you, any grand discoveries? Has Combeferre taught his dinosaur to breathe flame yet?"
...Probably the answer is no!
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Although if Bahorel suggests it, that state of affairs may not last too much longer. Combeferre is rather susceptible to experimental engineering challenges.
"He's acquired a jarred specimen to accompany it instead. With wings. I'm told it's not technically a dinosaur."
He was also told why it wasn't technically a dinosaur, but he hasn't really retained any of those details.
Despite Enjolras's lack of any great detail about Combeferre's latest pickled acquisitions, though, the discussion of other friends' activities and Milliways's peculiar possibilities for study does occupy them both nicely for a while longer, and for another few slices of pizza.