You speak as if you know my Paris. You have only walked through it. It is rare that a person should know both sides. [But she was one of them.]
No, there is no god, not now. Perhaps there once was, but he has abandoned me. He has abandoned us all.
[She nods- at least he recognized her. That was enough to give her a watery smile as she listens intently. Many were killed, then. But others were not... And Marius... Marius had lived. She blinks, something dark spreading throughout her chest, twisting and pulling, turning her innards to ice.] He survived. [He survived, and he had Cosette's letter. It was easy to assume what had happened next. If only Cosette had moved away before he got to her-! She could hope.]
That effect? What sort of effect do you mean, m'sieur? That all those that are new to this city and this world see him?
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No, there is no god, not now. Perhaps there once was, but he has abandoned me. He has abandoned us all.
[She nods- at least he recognized her. That was enough to give her a watery smile as she listens intently. Many were killed, then. But others were not... And Marius... Marius had lived. She blinks, something dark spreading throughout her chest, twisting and pulling, turning her innards to ice.] He survived. [He survived, and he had Cosette's letter. It was easy to assume what had happened next. If only Cosette had moved away before he got to her-! She could hope.]
That effect? What sort of effect do you mean, m'sieur? That all those that are new to this city and this world see him?