Text. The truth is you have no control who lives who dies who tells your story

[lafautedevoltaire]

[This comes from username "etliberte"]

I want to tell you all about my friends. I'm typing this so it'll stay around. Especially for the people who were on the ship. My friends stayed behind to make sure we actually got away. They died so the rest of us would have a chance.

Jean Prouvaire
Ambrose Bahorel
Guillaume Feuilly

Jehan was a poet. And a student. Most of the people at the barricades were students, but they didn't want to learn nearly as much about as many topics as him. He hated the way things were for women and children in Paris. He loved the very idea of love. He had dreams.

Ambrose studied law, but endeavoured to never become a lawyer. He won't have to worry about that now. He loved bold fashion. He loved to be bold about everything. He was never one to hesitate.

Guillaume wasn't a student at all, he worked making fans. He was a man of the people and wanted them all to see that there could be a better world. He carved Vivent les peuples into the wall of the cafe where we used to meet.

Maybe you didn't know them. But I did. And they died for all of us.

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[username: hotdamn]

[circumitus]

[...]

how did they die? what did they do, exactly?

[Seeing that she had been shoved into a gravity couch after being shot to shit, she never did hear the details of how the jump was forced. And it was, in a way, her fault that the ship jumped backwards into enemy territory in the first place. If she hadn't given it the pilot, perhaps none of that would've happened.

[Too late to make herself crazy over that sort of thing now.]

[lafautedevoltaire]

Someone had to use the abilities to push the jump. But that meant they had to be outside, during the jump. And we all know you don't survive that.

M. Lehnsherr said it was the space between worlds. Where the thing came from.

[circumitus]

the space between worlds?
you mean the wormhole the ship goes through during a jump, or something else?

how does he know this?

[...Ugh. Manners.]

sorry. it's probably shitty to ask these things.

[lafautedevoltaire]

He was there. Somehow he survived.

[Does he kinda wish it was his friends instead of this stranger who'd live? Of course he does]

The shadow on the ship. It's from where it goes during the jumps.

[circumitus]

understood.

[Except no, not really. But she's not about to go egging someone who's just lost loved ones for information.]

thank you for sharing this. and sorry again.
for your friends.

[lafautedevoltaire]

M. Lehnsherr might know more. But I don't think he really wants to talk about it.

[circumitus]

that should be enough. but if anything comes up, will speak with him.

is there anything you'd like for us to do?
to commemorate them, perhaps?
it's the least we can do, considering what they've done for us.

[lafautedevoltaire]

Carolyn suggested building with stones. I think they'd like that. Carve something, like Guillaume did.

[circumitus]

can help with the stones. got rather good at building things lately.

text; username: c.fry

[suddenlycaptain]

I'm sorry

[lafautedevoltaire]

At least I can make sure everyone knows.

[suddenlycaptain]

maybe we could make a memorial for them. put some stones together or something.

[lafautedevoltaire]

That would be good. I don't know if they all would have gotten that in Paris.

[suddenlycaptain]

well then we'll do it here. we'll find a spot and do something nice.

[lafautedevoltaire]

Somewhere people walk by a lot

[suddenlycaptain]

Maybe near the center of camp?

[lafautedevoltaire]

Yeah. We wouldn't even have a camp without them.

[username: chook]

[culver]

They sound like they were wonderful people.
I am sorry they are gone.

[lafautedevoltaire]

They were. We have to survive so it was worth it.

[culver]

Yes.
I wish I had been able to know them.

[lafautedevoltaire]

I wish everyone here could have

[culver]

Did you know them before you came here?

[lafautedevoltaire]

We fought together in Paris. We wanted to change things.

[culver]

Why?

[lafautedevoltaire]

Because it wasn't right that the king would feast while people starved in the streets.