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[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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[He nods.]

I learn the locations of stars, planets, solar systems so I can navigate our ship properly. Flying into a sun because I did my math wrong would be very bad.

You fly into a-- [Eponine's eyes widened.] No! It is not possible! How can you have a ship in the sky?

[Whoops. Maybe he should've toned it down.]

The engineering itself is quite complicated, but it is possible. The ship itself is sealed, of course, so we can breathe. No air in space, of course. No warmth either.

But how... how can a ship sail in the sky, m'sieur?

With the proper application of thrust! You see, once we invented a rocket with enough thrust, we could send people or things through the atmosphere into space. Of course, it was very messy at first-- unfortunately, many important things were only learned because of tragedy.

That was all before my time but it is a key influence on the design of modern starships.

That... That sounds astounding, m'sieur. To travel so far, to see the stars...

It must be beautiful.

It is. I cannot even begin to explain how beautiful it is up there. Nebulae and constellations and stars billions of years old! Their light is still there even after they've died.

I wish I could show you. I think you would like it.

I believe I would, too. How lovely, to know there is more there. You sailed amongst the heavens...

[she trails off, a dreamy look in her eyes.]

There is more there than I could ever know! Intelligent beings we have never encountered before, whole star systems waiting to be explored, planets all so different from the other.

[A little wistful.] I wish I had a holo of some kind, but I arrived with just the clothes on my back.

Intelligent beings? God in heaven.

A holo? Count yourself lucky. My clothing I arrived in, bloody and torn, was not even my own.

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