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[jondrette]

[It has almost been a month, and already Eponine looks far better than she had when she made her first appearance on the Network. Gone are her bloody rags, replaced by clothing that, while perhaps not her preferred style, actually fit her small frame and kept her covered. There's a light in her eyes that hasn't been there before.]

I had been wandering about the other night, keeping to myself- an old habit that I cannot drop, I do love to venture out at night, to see what there is, to experience a world that no one else sees because they are asleep- and I had a thought.

I have been here near a month. A month since I could feel my life leave my body. Such a long time! But already- already here I have been happier than I can recall in nine years! Only one other time can eclipse this!

Here, I have a home, clothing, a bed. There is food and I am warm. I have my beautiful brother- and mark me, I shall not leave him again, I have promised him and I will not go back on this promise. Not again- and I have friends.

I do not suppose I have ever had a true friend until I came here.

Death is by far one of the more grand things that has ever happened to me! To think-- no. I shall tell you, if you are listening, that I am happy here. Happier than I have ever deserved!

[She pauses for a moment, looking off to the side of the screen, and frowning.] Perhaps Enjolras is right. It is stupid to do these things so late at night. Forgive me. I have made a fool of myself yet again.

Comments

[video]

[eye_of_isis]

....right. If you're happier dead, I don't think I want to what your life was like elsewhere. I'm not that happy about death, and my boyfriend's the god of funerals.

Re: [video]

[jondrette]

[She is seriously just looking at you.]

Pardon?

My death was what I wanted. And it brought me here.

[video]

[eye_of_isis]

Boyfriend. Beau. Guy I would very much like to be here so I had someone to kiss. Egyptian God of Funerals.

[Ugh]

So...you were suicidal?

Re: [video]

[jondrette]

No, I understand what a boyfriend is now. [It's a weird word. She doesn't like it.] Your boyfriend is a god?

[She considers this for a moment.]

I don't... It was a sin and a crime to commit suicide.

[video]

[eye_of_isis]

Yes, yes he is.

[and she misses him]

--wait, since when? I mean, you get people thinking that anything short of complete and utter avoidance of literally anything beyond Stone Age level is a sin, but a crime?

[jondrette]

Strange.

[She shakes her head.] It is against the law where I am from.

[eye_of_isis]

And where are you from?

[jondrette]

Paris. From 1832.

[eye_of_isis]

[Long pause]

Well, that answers that question. Suicide stopped being illegal ages ago for me--2012.

[jondrette]

You are-- so far in my future! I can hardly believe it!

[eye_of_isis]

There's a lot of people from around my time on the turtle. The people from the past are in the minority, I think, believe it or not.

[jondrette]

How strange! Though it is my present.

I am not alone in being from my time. The men who died with me. Many of them, including my brother, are here.

[eye_of_isis]

What's his name?

[jondrette]

Gavroche Thénardier.

[eye_of_isis]

...He's from 1832?! That explains a lot.

[jondrette]

You didn't know this? When did you think he was from?

[eye_of_isis]

The twenty first century?

[jondrette]

Oh, no. Not at all.

[eye_of_isis]

Obviously. Explains why my hair dye confused him.

[She tugs on the strands of green in her hair. Thank the gods for a kedan chemist willing to work with her on finding hair dye. She hates being a plain blonde]

[jondrette]

That is... You dyed your hair?

It is strange. But I like it!

[eye_of_isis]

Thanks. I can show you how, if you want. It's a little harder with dark hair, but not impossible.

[jondrette]

[She considers this for a moment, a gleam growing in her eyes.] Perhaps... Would it be possible, to lighten my hair?

[eye_of_isis]

Only with a lot of hair bleach, and I don't know where to find that much.

[jondrette]

Oh. [She'll try not to look too disappointed.]

[eye_of_isis]

I can probably find enough to give you a lot of blonde streaks, though.