Etienne was there as well, and Temeraire and his Captain. Have you had the chance to meet our dragon brother yet? He shares most of L'ABC's goals, and he and Marius differ when it comes to Buonoparte, which is amusing actually. We were rather lucky but I think that the experience left a few things awkward for a time. I'd rather hoped it might bridge something of the gap between us and the inspector. There can never be trust or friendship there after so much, but respect would have been nice, I think, perhaps somewhat lessened suspicion, but alas, that seems that it was not to be.
[He does have rather a good idea of it, yes. And well, unless she'd been directly caught in something, it would be an easier charge to pin onto a young woman if one wanted to keep her jailed for a time.
After all she's told him, Enjolras is not naive enough to think that it does not have to do with the 'work' she had been forced into but still, the charge itself is rather easy, when it comes to it.
As for the rest of her story? He's nodding as she speaks, his eyes sympathetic as she mentions her family, and her mother, though the rest of his face does not noticeably change much. ]
That does sound likely, I am afraid. What is it about men or women being prisoners that means that they do not still have the right to be treated as living beings with decent conditions? I can certainly understand locking away the genuinely dangerous, but the law is too quick to label many as such and toss them away to rot.
[And that disturbs him, from the little hint of disgust and disdain there in his voice.]
Sentences are too harsh by far and it becomes less about teaching lessons than about pure loss of dignity and torture there, and of those who are allowed to leave...they are set up again for much more crime because it is all that they might do in order to survive.
I think you are right, over all. If we wish for crime to change, then we must change the law itself, and the ways that we are governed. It is the only way to ensure cases like your family's do not occur again. Until that comes, there is little we can do at home but push that change. I wish it may be otherwise.
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[He does have rather a good idea of it, yes. And well, unless she'd been directly caught in something, it would be an easier charge to pin onto a young woman if one wanted to keep her jailed for a time.
After all she's told him, Enjolras is not naive enough to think that it does not have to do with the 'work' she had been forced into but still, the charge itself is rather easy, when it comes to it.
As for the rest of her story? He's nodding as she speaks, his eyes sympathetic as she mentions her family, and her mother, though the rest of his face does not noticeably change much. ]
That does sound likely, I am afraid. What is it about men or women being prisoners that means that they do not still have the right to be treated as living beings with decent conditions? I can certainly understand locking away the genuinely dangerous, but the law is too quick to label many as such and toss them away to rot.
[And that disturbs him, from the little hint of disgust and disdain there in his voice.]
Sentences are too harsh by far and it becomes less about teaching lessons than about pure loss of dignity and torture there, and of those who are allowed to leave...they are set up again for much more crime because it is all that they might do in order to survive.
I think you are right, over all. If we wish for crime to change, then we must change the law itself, and the ways that we are governed. It is the only way to ensure cases like your family's do not occur again. Until that comes, there is little we can do at home but push that change. I wish it may be otherwise.