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.

Comments

[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.

[lafautedevoltaire]

I'd like that

[circumitus]

good. some of us can get started sometime today.
soon, if nothing else.

[lafautedevoltaire]

I wish I'd remembered sooner, that they went off and didn't come back

[circumitus]

we all were having problems remembering things at that time, and that in itself was a problem. at least you know what happened now, right?

[lafautedevoltaire]

Yeah. I didn't even remember my sister was my sister until she was missing.

[He's had a bad couple months]

[circumitus]

your sister was here as well?
that's


really unfortunate.
you're not alone, though.

[Poor kid.]

[lafautedevoltaire]

We came on board at the same time. For a while it seemed half of Paris was here. I'm the only one left now.

I still have a lot of people here.

[circumitus]

never had someone from home here before.
always seemed like it's better that way.

suppose that's a compromise. it isn't good to be alone. [Says someone with personal experience.]

[lafautedevoltaire]

I'm glad she was here. We got to actually be a family for a little while, better than we ever were at home.

[circumitus]

seems that's one of the few perks about being brought here.

[lafautedevoltaire]

I still think I'm better off here than Paris.

[circumitus]

is paris that bad?
never been there before, personally.

[lafautedevoltaire]

It's a fine place to be rich. But a poor one to be poor. They say it gets better, in the future.

[circumitus]

[oh]

what year is it in your paris?

[lafautedevoltaire]

1832

[circumitus]

damn. that's over 3 centuries ago back home.
certainly hope things have changed there since then.