There ARE ways and steps to take here, to make a few things better, and to work for larger ones. I dare say we can hardly overthrow an empire as foreigners just now, but we can begin to make life better. It is not as it once was, in the days of the rationing but the empress here is still keeping her secrets, still engineering our arrivals and people still appear and disappear with little warning.
[Grantaire, Marius's Cosette, Daahd, The list is starting to grow the more time Enjolras is here.]
I do not entirely trust that things are not being kept from us for one, as it comes to the way we're chosen to come here, to other things that I know have been kept from us, and the nature of...we were told that we've been brought here to stand against a dark being, but have so little information on anything here.
Have you noticed that they tell us, all the time, that things we ask are the business of the Empress? What if those things they are not saying are the things that may help us here, or are the answers to things we might do to help ourselves? Sometimes one may get into the libraries but even those are guarded still...
There is much that we can do now without leading directly into things that will harm the population, I expect. I would throw myself into a greater risk this moment, but I would not do the same or inflict those same consequences on anyone who was not able to determine for themselves if if was right for them to do so. If we are careful, we might have that determination, yes.
A group of us, from my home, will be having a meeting soon, to focus on such things. If you would like to be a part of it, I will pass on that information when we've found the time and place.
You are right when you speak of kings as foolish men. Kings and their class as a whole. Content to let the people fight their battles for them and to sacrifice said people...at least in my experience of them. The generals though, and the soldiers...it's very rare that they do not follow the bidding of the kings because they're given little other choice. Very rare, but we had one who stood with the people instead, who championed their rights, and spoke against the king's regime he'd been promoted to defend.
He understood, because he'd seen it, as you say. I do agree the generals have seen much more of life. It comes to what they choose to do with it, I think, but surely there is a better chance with them than the others.
I do not know that that God exists, truly. I've seen no evidence for such but even so, the prospect is far better than your world's.
But there are ways here to make things better, and I know that. They will need to be smaller, yes, than I have known, but small changes do build. If you are interested to know more...that is why I am here.
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[Grantaire, Marius's Cosette, Daahd, The list is starting to grow the more time Enjolras is here.]
I do not entirely trust that things are not being kept from us for one, as it comes to the way we're chosen to come here, to other things that I know have been kept from us, and the nature of...we were told that we've been brought here to stand against a dark being, but have so little information on anything here.
Have you noticed that they tell us, all the time, that things we ask are the business of the Empress? What if those things they are not saying are the things that may help us here, or are the answers to things we might do to help ourselves? Sometimes one may get into the libraries but even those are guarded still...
There is much that we can do now without leading directly into things that will harm the population, I expect. I would throw myself into a greater risk this moment, but I would not do the same or inflict those same consequences on anyone who was not able to determine for themselves if if was right for them to do so. If we are careful, we might have that determination, yes.
A group of us, from my home, will be having a meeting soon, to focus on such things. If you would like to be a part of it, I will pass on that information when we've found the time and place.
You are right when you speak of kings as foolish men. Kings and their class as a whole. Content to let the people fight their battles for them and to sacrifice said people...at least in my experience of them. The generals though, and the soldiers...it's very rare that they do not follow the bidding of the kings because they're given little other choice. Very rare, but we had one who stood with the people instead, who championed their rights, and spoke against the king's regime he'd been promoted to defend.
He understood, because he'd seen it, as you say. I do agree the generals have seen much more of life. It comes to what they choose to do with it, I think, but surely there is a better chance with them than the others.
I do not know that that God exists, truly. I've seen no evidence for such but even so, the prospect is far better than your world's.
But there are ways here to make things better, and I know that. They will need to be smaller, yes, than I have known, but small changes do build. If you are interested to know more...that is why I am here.