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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.

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[jondrette]

[Eponine looks at the woman on her monitor, her brow slightly creased as she listens, trying to gauge who this woman was. The smile, however, helps, and Eponine nods, accepting this.]

I was, madame. I had no one. I doubt my own family mourned me when I died. [Gavroche had, when he found out.]

[littlemother]

I'm so sorry. I can't imagine having to live with something like that.

[ Someone else might have denied the truth of Eponine's belief, or rather challenged it with a reassurance that, indeed, she must have been loved -- but Porenn understands the importance of the truth of one's beliefs, how the challenge can rattle you so to your core. It's not her place, she believes, to issue that challenge. Porenn has her truths, subjective though they may be, and so does Eponine -- and here, they have very little else. ]

It makes me all the gladder to hear that you've found companionship here, then.

[jondrette]

I did not live with it, madame. I died.

[Though here she was, and Gavroche had indeed mourned for her here, though they may both have now been alive and well in this In Between.]

Thank you. I am glad, too. If I knew this was what awaited me, perhaps I would have gone earlier.