Not own, no, and I do not like the idea of a Empress or Emperor or Kings at any rate. Better that the people, all of them, determine their leaders by some means, if they cannot be directly consulted themselves, as the Americans would have it in my time.

[And Enjolras is extremely passionate on this point, though his voice does not really rise or anything along those lines. His eyes seem more alert perhaps, and he sits a little straighter as he stares into the camera.]

Instead of "own" perhaps I ought to say...controls or rules. It seems the more accurate term. I wonder though, truly, how one person may own a piece of any land when it is living, but particularly when it has consciousness as our Tu Vishan does.

[Enjolras would not consider himself so good a friend as that. He is well aware that though he loves his friends, he has his shortcomings, is often too impatient, or dismissive with them, and, upon his death in the last world, he realized that there is much he does not understand or seek to know of their conditions and feelings. Still, he wishes to try to be better for them here, so the words, referring to Marius of all people, whom Enjolras knows least of all, come as an encouragement to him.]

I try now, yes. I have not always been so, but I try.