Perhaps that is so. [He falls silent again, ruminating. That his captain is not here is still a blow, but not as severe as he might have expected, with the knowledge that he is still safe, elsewhere.]
It is not that Laurence is blind to the injustices dragons face in the West, since he has admitted that I am right; it is only that he thinks it difficult to engender those changes, while we are still fighting Napoleon.
[And those changes, if Iskierka is to be believed, will come--but that is another matter. Enjolras, for his part, must have been a hatchling at best during the war--or else he was not even born--but Temeraire looks up nonetheless, questioning.] Would you have built your barricades all the same, if it were the year seven and not the year thirty-two?
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It is not that Laurence is blind to the injustices dragons face in the West, since he has admitted that I am right; it is only that he thinks it difficult to engender those changes, while we are still fighting Napoleon.
[And those changes, if Iskierka is to be believed, will come--but that is another matter. Enjolras, for his part, must have been a hatchling at best during the war--or else he was not even born--but Temeraire looks up nonetheless, questioning.] Would you have built your barricades all the same, if it were the year seven and not the year thirty-two?