Video: Of shuttles. And possibly kid gangs.

[lafautedevoltaire]

[The face of a young boy sitting quite casually in one of the shuttles appears on the screen. All the steady eating has brought his apparent age closer to nine or ten, even if he's really probably thirteen.]

For the new people, my name's Gavroche. I work down in the shuttle bay. Everyone needs to help out on board. If you want to learn about fixing the shuttles, I can show you all about it.

[19th century street urchins are the obvious experts]

If you want to actually learn to fly them you should talk to Monsieur Wash, his number's CFO» 023 » 064. He's the one to talk to about actually joining up, too.

[He's about to hang up when he remembers one more thing]

Oh! I noticed there were an awful lot of new kids this jump. We should stick together.

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[sleepallthewayhome]

[She nods slightly at that. She'd only been by herself for two weeks but being hungry was not fun.]

Did you win?

[punned]

[ 'Ready for what?' she wants to ask, but she's also not sure she wants to know.

Good thing Gavroche mentions the shuttle bay, because... ]

...Oh! Holy shit! Jeez, with all this spooky shit of winding up in this place, I totally didn't even think about seeing the stars!

[ Seeing the stars while in space? That's gotta be all kinds of fucking awesome, right?! ]

[video]

[lafautedevoltaire]

I'm not sure how they did that one.

[lafautedevoltaire]

[He shakes his head]

But I learned here people kept trying. And they did win, eventually.

[And that's worth something]

[lafautedevoltaire]

The stars are amazing. It's one of my favourite places on the whole ship.

[And he really likes most of the ship, so that's saying something]

[sleepallthewayhome]

Oh....

Did you get put in jail?

[She wishes they talked more about France in history class rather then just the colonies history.]

[punned]

Man...

Sooo... where do I find this Wash guy?

[lafautedevoltaire]

No. They were never going to want just that.

[He'd known the risk he was taking. But he hadn't really thought it would happen.]

[sleepallthewayhome]

[Newt nods. Sadly.]

....barricades don't end well. ....we had some to keep away the monsters and I only got away because I can fit where they can't.

[She thought that maybe people wouldn't kill everyone in his story like the monsters did in hers....but he is from a really long time ago.]

[wiped]

People you know from Paris too? Or people who know you?

[lafautedevoltaire]

[He nods. That sounds really familiar]

I could have gotten away like that, if I'd gone the other way. But we were almost out of ammunition.

[lafautedevoltaire]

He's usually in the shuttlebay. Unless he went somewhere with Madam Zoe, but then he usually doesn't want interruptions.

[lafautedevoltaire]

People I knew. We were at the same barricade.

[forerun]

so dead or home
man this place blows

yeah, shucked
means something bad 9/10 times

[sleepallthewayhome]

We were trying to escape into the vents when the monsters burst through. The soldiers couldn't stop them and ....Timmy tried to shoot them ....after they got mommy.

But it didn't work and he left me alone.

[She's only seven but she both misses and hates her brother for that. She was alone for so long because her brother just wouldn't run with her.]

[lafautedevoltaire]

And yet it's still better than the streets of Paris.

[forerun]

where's paris?
must suck if it's worse than here

[lafautedevoltaire]

It's a city in France, on Earth.
It'll be better someday, but in my time most people starve while the king feasts.