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I haven't seen many new faces in the last while - but if you don't know me, I'm the Headmaster, so if you want to get involved in the school, we should talk. Things have been rather hectic lately, but I hope we can keep everything running smoothly.

[He looks down for a moment.]

Which brings me to a...more personal concern, I suppose. [He isn't used to addressing the network on such issues. Most of his posts have been announcement style, because he's so used to keeping his public image official.]

There are a lot of concerning issues brought up by the Emperor's recent announcement, to say the least. But I have to wonder, specifically, about being sent home. If we are returned back to the point we were taken from, I only have a short time left to live, and I can't be the only one in that situation. Has anyone investigated the possibility of alternative options? Would you want to take such an option, if you could?

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If I were to go home, I would be dead.

[His breath before he speaks again is hesitant. He knows damned well how selfish he is being that he wants to stay, and how against everything that wish actually goes.]

If I must return to France, I shall, and gladly, but should there be an option that allows for me to remain elsewhere, having served her, I would take it instead.

I've never heard of France; was something wrong with it?

Near everything was wrong, and near everything had the promise of being made great. The poor subjugated, the king and rulers content to keep it such as it benefited them instead. But there was more, so much more that a republic, ruled by and for the people, where all were equal would have done, will do in some point in the future, I do know that, but never when.

I died...will die, before that greatness is achieved. I am pleased that I died for what France could be, it was the greatest honor I have had, but if I am dead there, and another people is wronged elsewhere, here, that I may help them...I would choose fighting for that people, giving them my last breath first, while I might remain in the position to do so.

Our fight was universal, so it is only fitting I choose to go on in it, I think, if I might have that choice.

[This is conflicting information. He isn't a big fan of monarchies, but he isn't a big fan of revolutions, either.]

I myself lived in my world's first real republic. But you would risk dying for the same cause twice, even if you had a chance to live somewhere where it was already achieved?

Wherever I was needed, I would go and risk it, yes.

[Enjolras cannot hesitate on that choice. The need for it is...if not automatic, he's trained himself to it by now.]

I would rather be at peace, and live within that world but until everywhere there is freedom, or the people themselves have chosen otherwise, and chosen fairly, I would continue in the fight.

[He would not deny that the thought makes him tired, that what he would long for most of all would be to live in peace with his friends as long as he might. If something else is at stake, he knows what he has vowed to see through to its end.]

Your world's first republic.

[And those are starry eyes coming out right there.]

I can only imagine what living in my world's first might have been. To walk in the same streets as Robspierre and Danton...Though ours did not end so well as had been thought at first, I do still wish I might have seen such or been alive to see a second in my life. Covered with blood and sacrifice it might have been, it still would seem worthwhile. Was yours much the same?

It was established a few years after a century long war, to be a place where people from all nations could coexist in peace. It's been around since before I was born, and the first real conflict only started very recently, which is what results in my death.

But, there was no where else I would rather have lived. I don't believe that blood relation should matter as much as it does in most societies. [Mostly because he's related to one of the most notorious criminals ever.]

[Enjolras's nod there is solemn, certainly, and well, the century long war does not sound as horrible as it might otherwise if that is the result.]

A very long night then, but finally a dawn of peace. It sounds much as we had hoped for, all conflicts aside. And yes...

[A smile crosses Enjolras's face as Tarrlok mentions living nowhere else, and well...]

To have it my way, I would never choose differently if there was a real choice about it, a real chance that my one death would make the difference for all of France until there was another need. I could not let myself stay idle if there was somewhere else the same principles were at work, where I was needed.

[And again, he looks almost exhausted, as he speaks of it, Enjolras has done little but consider ways to fight since the Empress's announcement, and it's showing in his face now.]

I cannot allow myself that selfishness, not then. not ever. I am still here to fight, so fight I must, I think, despite what else might be there.

Well, I have to admire your conviction. [Even if revolutions are definitely a thing he dislikes. But somehow he dislikes them a lot less when they're not against him.]

Thank you.

[Enjolras is not certain himself if it is conviction so much as something he is compelled to do, but all the same, his slight nod is quite pleased.]

You're welcome. [He doesn't understand how he keeps having civil conversations with revolutionaries.]

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