[That's all right. Enjolras has gotten used to it doing that for most people, honestly. He hardly notices it anymore, when it comes down to it, really. Most of his experiences talking about the Revolution have gone this way, sometimes even at home.
The time displacement IS a more immediate issue really, isn't it?]
Magic. Ah yes. I've learned a spell to heal some minor wounds myself, and I still have no idea how it works, entirely. As for the future...
[He's pausing, considering the question a moment, though his face is blank at the last two.]
I have heard that cars have come a long way from the ones that caught my friends' attentions as they came into the world, actually. de Rivaz and his hydrogen engine, and Brown's attempt at making one of those work were one thing, and eventually made the papers some of them read, but the idea that it will become much easier to transport people is amazing, isn't it?
It is strange. As far as science and reason go, mankind has come so far. At home, we'd conquered so many things that men once feared. The hydra, the dragon, the griffin, or what men thought of as them once. We had the locomotive, the balloon, and were on the grasp of mastering the air itself, as we had mastered our control of fire and water. And yet, there were? are? so many more things to go.
You are an example of that, yourself I think. Mastering the air, and taking it even another step further. I am amazed at how far the world, at least your world, has come.
You remind me very much of someone who I care for very much. If he had stayed here long enough to meet you, you and Etienne would have gotten along so well. I think he would be more impressed at all of this than I am, not because I am not impressed, but because he would better understand all of this.
There was one thing I looked forward to finding in the future, as men accepted science and the truth as fact, but I think I was a bit too optimistic. I had hoped once, that we would all embrace that truth, that there would be a universal peace and universal ideals.
It was disappointing to learn that it has not come yet, and likely will not for some time. But the idea that we continue onward, and that there are people like you who work to keep others safe, who embrace the spirit of what we had hoped for is a comfort. So, the people of the future, I suppose. And the idea that you apply the knowledge that my friends valued so highly into aiding others.
[His face is solemn here, his eyes a little bright, as he considers it.]
It is a comfort, knowing there are others out there, you and people like you who will fight for the right things. I can think of nothing better now, that advances humanity toward the better world to come.
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The time displacement IS a more immediate issue really, isn't it?]
Magic. Ah yes. I've learned a spell to heal some minor wounds myself, and I still have no idea how it works, entirely. As for the future...
[He's pausing, considering the question a moment, though his face is blank at the last two.]
I have heard that cars have come a long way from the ones that caught my friends' attentions as they came into the world, actually. de Rivaz and his hydrogen engine, and Brown's attempt at making one of those work were one thing, and eventually made the papers some of them read, but the idea that it will become much easier to transport people is amazing, isn't it?
It is strange. As far as science and reason go, mankind has come so far. At home, we'd conquered so many things that men once feared. The hydra, the dragon, the griffin, or what men thought of as them once. We had the locomotive, the balloon, and were on the grasp of mastering the air itself, as we had mastered our control of fire and water. And yet, there were? are? so many more things to go.
You are an example of that, yourself I think. Mastering the air, and taking it even another step further. I am amazed at how far the world, at least your world, has come.
You remind me very much of someone who I care for very much. If he had stayed here long enough to meet you, you and Etienne would have gotten along so well. I think he would be more impressed at all of this than I am, not because I am not impressed, but because he would better understand all of this.
There was one thing I looked forward to finding in the future, as men accepted science and the truth as fact, but I think I was a bit too optimistic. I had hoped once, that we would all embrace that truth, that there would be a universal peace and universal ideals.
It was disappointing to learn that it has not come yet, and likely will not for some time. But the idea that we continue onward, and that there are people like you who work to keep others safe, who embrace the spirit of what we had hoped for is a comfort. So, the people of the future, I suppose. And the idea that you apply the knowledge that my friends valued so highly into aiding others.
[His face is solemn here, his eyes a little bright, as he considers it.]
It is a comfort, knowing there are others out there, you and people like you who will fight for the right things. I can think of nothing better now, that advances humanity toward the better world to come.