She was here before, he recalls dimly. It was before the episode with Malicant. Before the decreed palace security investigations, and possibly before the rationing. Like the blond insurgent boy, a quick look over the previous replies tells him that she has no memory of ever coming to Tu Vishan before.
How many times has his own body and mind come here, only to melt into the ocean and resurface again? Would it add another three deaths to his list of 'experienced' drownings, whether they were real or not?
His response is flat - nearly coy, for a man that is often mistaken as humorless - but the low, hard, and cold timbre of his voice should strike a terrible chord of familiarity in Éponine.]
Don't let the handsome looks of this city dupe you. You are in Hell. Or on the road to it.
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It takes Javert a moment to pinpoint exactly why her face is familiar. Then he recalls - Patron-Minette, the Thénardier girl, alias Jondrette. The last he saw of her, she was dead in a heap along that back alley where that ex-convict...
She was here before, he recalls dimly. It was before the episode with Malicant. Before the decreed palace security investigations, and possibly before the rationing. Like the blond insurgent boy, a quick look over the previous replies tells him that she has no memory of ever coming to Tu Vishan before.
How many times has his own body and mind come here, only to melt into the ocean and resurface again? Would it add another three deaths to his list of 'experienced' drownings, whether they were real or not?
His response is flat - nearly coy, for a man that is often mistaken as humorless - but the low, hard, and cold timbre of his voice should strike a terrible chord of familiarity in Éponine.]
Don't let the handsome looks of this city dupe you. You are in Hell. Or on the road to it.