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[Genis is feeling all out of sorts. Yes, he'd been told that this massive headache and otherwise feeling completely lethargic and terrible would be gone by tomorrow, and so he would have considered putting this out there until then, but someone had told him that he looked somewhat familiar, that there was some older girl with the same hair colour. And while there were possibly a zillion people in all the infinite worlds out there that he didn't yet know about that had elder girls with a silver-white hair, the description sounded like a shoe-in for Raine. He had to make the post.

[But Genis looks just... terrible. He's tired and just feels just empty, not to mention hungry. You'll see a 12 year old's face just looking like he could use a really really nice sleep. And as a result, he's not afraid to be cranky. Granted, he's always unafraid to be cranky, but that's his excuse at the moment.]

I really hate to gripe about this first thing, but come on. I come straight from one world where I'm hated just for being a half-elf, and now I'm in a world where I'm hated just because I'm not from around here? Greeeeeat. You know, I'm beginning to wonder if there even is a world out there where people don't discriminate against other people for completely stupid reasons.

I mean, what'd you guys even do to the kedan anyway? Did you go out and kidnap everyone's kids or something? Because if it wasn't as big as something like that, I don't know what you could have possibly done to get them to hate you so badly.

[He says this with the most deadpan delivery ever. He then just shakes his head as if just in disbelief that he's already stuck in a world worse than the one he'd just left.]

Okay, at any rate, I don't know who exactly is out there listening to this, but... hey. I'm Genis Sage. I don't suppose any of you know someone named Raine, would you? Anyway, as for me, I guess I'm just a student at the moment, though I really haven't been attending school for a while since I've been travelling around my world for the past while with my sister and my friends. Despite that, I could probably still graduate at the top of my class even without having been diligent on all my homework last year. [He says this with a remarkable amount of pride despite his general malaise of feeling empty and tired.]

Anyway, I'd say that I'm looking forward to meeting all of you soon, but right now I'm much more interested in waiting for this massive headache to go away first. Though I'm told that's supposed to go away tomorrow, so that's one thing going my way.

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Or something.

[The question, tossed in there the way it was, reminds Enjolras of Gavroche and he can't help but grin at the new kid, literal new kid, it seems.]

Raine helped me out of a terrible spot and we did some work together during the war. It is funny, you know what 'just students' can do.

Or something? What? Was it really that bad?

[Because really, Genis, would like to know this one. Really.]

You know Raine too? Yup, I figured she must be here just by the description someone had given me.

So, are you trying to tell me that you're just a student too?

It was, well. Have you heard the local version, where they tell you 'there was a war'?

[The words have a fair bit of weight in Enjolras's voice right now.]

We...were caught up in the shifting sides of that war, and all that it entails. It has made returning here...tricky. For all of us.

Before I came here? Yes, I was.

[It's close enough to the truth. After all, no one's specified what SORT.]

What, are you psychic or something? Those are the exact words he used to start their rather annoyed explanation of things.

[That should at least answer that rather serious question.]

Though I have to admit that your summary of the story sounds a little less antagonistic than "the local version," as you call it.

What did you used to study?

[The question prompts a laugh from Enjolras.] Not quite psychic so much as...it appears to be the same line, used over and over amongst any who are willing to explain. And not as simple as they make it...

Ah yes. I think they honestly believe that we... Well, according to the rumors, there ARE some who blame us for some more current problems that were not an issue when the dark lord was ruling here and occupied things. It seems to be a ...political decision, that we are all terrible.

Law, of all things. Certainly nothing to prepare me for...any of this.

I must have been lucky to find someone willing to explain pretty quickly. At least the kedan who allowed me on a console seemed at least somewhat friendly, even if the explanations were still a little terse.

But yeah, that's kind of how the whole discrimination thing works. People have been giving me dirty looks about the whole thing, and I just got here. They'll just believe whatever happens to be convenient to them because they want to.

So you're someone that makes up the laws that people abide by?

THAT is good. I have been here so long I was not sure exactly what the story these days is. It seems they are getting used to our....foreigners in general, that is, to our presence here again. Friendly is a nice start. I hope it continues.

Ah that. Part and parcel of being here, yes. Really, I almost wish there were some valid explanation for the reasoning. It...would help if it were all less vague.

Oh hardly that. [He's smiling a little, ducking his head.]

I was training to defend those who were charged with breaking said law. But I am a journalist. Was, now.

Well I wouldn't exactly call all the kedan friendly just yet. Or even that one; he was helpful, but once he was done explaining things, he scurried off and left me alone.

[Because anything that makes him assume that he found a kedan that liked him like Mithos claimed to like him would be assuming waaaaay too much.]

Oh, I understand now. If someone broke the law or was accused you were breaking the law, you'd do your best to keep them from being punished for it. Sounds a little better than the system with all the Papal Knights; they would just throw you in a dungeon the moment they believed you were up to no good.

[Not to mention that mayors had the capacity to banish someone without any sort of defence either... cough.]

Well, then at least not on the warpath anymore. I...can be content with that for the moment. It is...less than ideal. I used to have friends...I miss them. but...well, we can do with all the support possible, right?

,small>[There is a faint, vaguely amused smile.]

Even if 'support' consists of not, I don't know, setting us on fire on sight.

Rather. yes. Or well, to establish their innocence, or if they were not innocent, to ensure that their punishment was just, and not...

[He winces at the description there, because well he's described some of the things Eponine's told him, of life on her side of the streets.]

You would be surprised how many at home that DOES happen to. For lack of a proper lawyer, money or trade. Rather sad, really. I was there, in training, so that I could help but I did wish for something...bigger.

For your sake, I'm going to hope that the kedan were never actively trying to set you on fire on sight. But if they were, then yes, this is a drastic improvement.

[Genis, however, waves Enjolras from trying to explain himself too deeply.]

Don't worry, I understand what you're trying to say. But does that mean only the richer folks could afford to actually use services like yours? Wouldn't that just mean that the rich can get away with more than the poor?

Non literal fire, then. Does that sound better? Still, I suspect if looks were a form of weapon, then we may well have been in some sort of deep trouble already.

[And then the question, and he is nodding adamantly. It's precisely what Bossuet said upon being removed, and why Bahorel had never seemed to want to stay, years upon years of working on the degree.]

I did say I was somewhat reluctant to actually practice? That would be a reason why.

Well thank good that's not the case. I think I would have been killed several times over already because of looks.

[Genis ignores the part about the non-literal fire because... it just becomes suddenly less interesting of a topic.]

So, you weren't really fond of that then? You liked helping those that were having a rougher time with things?

As would all of us. At least you are in...somewhat less than deplorable company.

[It does, doesn't it? Some things are just better with fire.]

I did. I was...the law was the lesser of two evils, when it came to studies to take me away from devoting myself to it full time. [He brightens, clearly quite a bit.] I did what I could to work with those who would come to me or who I could come to and...I wrote as well, about the reality and the idea of change. I do miss it, though it is not bad here at all, besides the kedan. That is...the world has seen much worse.

Whatever I might do to help though. That is...only right.

Well, I can certainly think of people's company that I probably would enjoy a lot less. So you're just lucky that other people have set the bar so low for you.

[Yeah, he's thinking he's rather clever for coming up with that.]

Hey, that sounds like one of my friend Lloyd's Dwarven Vows. I think it was the first one. Something like everyone working together for a peaceful world.

Though I always liked the seventh one better. "Justice and love will always win."

Oh certainly I am at that. It's always helped before.

[He'll throw the kid a bone and snicker at the comment, for what it's worth, though his expression is serious again at the mention of those vows.]

Oh I do like that one, yes. If we are part of a world, than it ought to be our own. Well, to belong to everyone, and not only a few. And so they will, eventually.

Three things will last forever, [He finds himself quoting, and though there is much of the bible he is unsure of, a few points do stand out as having wisdom all the same. Enough to share now.] Faith, hope, and love...And the greatest of these is love.

For a time, it was hard to see it, how much of a power love has, but then...

[His expression goes thoughtful, rather than misty though Enjolras is lost for a moment in thought.]

Love spurs men to do many things, does it not? It makes one unselfish, for one, more willing to give things up, and it lights the world. I have used death, as my means of fighting, when I had to, but love...the future belongs to love and I would sooner see it used, and winning, where it could.

Dwarven vows...

Well, we are not all so different as it might appear.

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[Genis looks rather self-satisfied that he managed to get someone to laugh. Technically speaking, he's laughing about it too. After all, the Dwarven Vows are rather silly.

[But the conversation takes an interesting turn, and the affect it has on Genis is rather pronounced.]

Well, love is... k-k-k-kinda nice. [Already he's thinking of Presea, that cute pink-haired girl from his world.] I mean, I guess it has... an effect on people... sometimes. It is rather... nice to think about someone you really like... and it does make you want to do things for them.

[Sigh, but he hasn't heard that she's here yet, so it might just be him and his sister.]

Ah, I miss Presea already.

[That first one certainly was a bit amusing. The second though, well, Enjolras HAS known love enough to comment on its various natures, so...he might as well. He's blinking as the boy stutters a little. In love, then. He's never been one to find children amusing when it comes to things like this either, and though he barely understands love, he'll treat it as seriously as if it were one of his friends confessing to this. Well, confessing to this during a time when no lives are at stake.

And he'll do that with the benefit of someone who has at least been there, even if the exact nature of how love works still eludes him a bit. He's nodding as Genis speaks, looking sympathetic.]

Yes, like that. I've loved a great deal of people in the ways that are less like the one you describe...and one in the exact way that you're speaking of. It helps to have the memories, even as it hurts at first. It has been...over a year now, almost two, since I last saw my Etienne here, but thinking of him...

It does still make me happy.

So that someone that you care about was actually here? And if it's been that long, you must have been here a long time then.

He was. A good deal of us, including an enemy at home, were here. And now...I am the only one left. It...will be three years this summer that I've been here. It does get a bit less odd, every time you allow it to do that. And it IS possible for those you love to come through later on. I have seen it happen more than once, and well, here YOU are, to be with your sister, are you not?

[This is followed up with an encouraging smile.]

Well, I guess it might happen that she gets brought here by whatever magic is bringing people here, so... maybe.

[Still, he can't actually tell if that's a good thing or not. Well, of course it's a good thing because he would love her to be here, but at the same point, he would probably just start stammering so much that he doesn't get any words out to her.]

Because I guess it does make sense that people can come later since my sister's already here. Still, I can't help but wonder how that magical spell selects people to bring here. It almost sounds like it might have some sort of intelligence...

It would be nice to see my Etienne, again, and there is nothing wrong in hoping either of us may see those they are close to. And as to the spell, it grows more complicated. Well, I might tell you what I know, at least.

[ Enjolras does find it a bit odd, that new people are still coming, after all, an has tried to decide on a reason.]

The magic was designed to bring us here to fight, to keep our enemy from invading our own worlds, but with him gone... It must be a strong power indeed if they could not erase it, yet. I do know that once, after we fought, we were offered a way home. The fact it brings you still... Eshai, our Empress, did have a singular way about her, and talent. Perhaps her reach continues. I should not be surprised if she had some sort of a trick up her sleeve, even after death.

[Well, that's certainly news. People have told him about the spell, but not about why they needed the foreigner's help, and most certainly not that they had a chance to go home.]

The guy you fought was threatening to take over our worlds too? No wonder they brought people here to fight it before it could!

[That almost forgives a lot of what Eshai might have done elsewise. Almost.]

But if you had the chance to go home, why didn't you take it? Is your old world even worse than this one or something?

He was, yes. At least, so we were told. But still...I have every bit of faith that Eshai would be truthful with us.

[Smart as Eshai was, and as determined to save her world, Enjolras still believes that when she leveled with people, she was telling them the absolute truth. The next question is one he gets fairly often, and it's easy enough to answer now, maybe too easy, given the casual way he tosses off the answer.]

Oh, no, Paris is, it's wonderful. Well, it is a place that was good for many, myself included, with the possibility of being good for others, that we were working toward. However, I could not work for it dead. I arrived here, instead of dying and returning to my death yet somehow did not feel right.

[Genis shrugs off the first part. After all, now it's all wrapped up in a nice, neat package with a bow to make it all nice and smooth.

[As for the second one...]

Well, from that perspective, I suppose you really don't have much of a choice at all then, huh? At least you actually know that in advance rather than being surprised all at once if you'd chosen badly.

[It really IS, isn't it? It's one of those things that you really can't ponder in the here and now, he guesses.]

Knowing does certainly help. I am sure that someday, I will find a way back to my friends, when I am ready. But that day is not here yet. I feel as though...well I might as well be useful while my spirit is still willing, no?

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