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[Genis is feeling all out of sorts. Yes, he'd been told that this massive headache and otherwise feeling completely lethargic and terrible would be gone by tomorrow, and so he would have considered putting this out there until then, but someone had told him that he looked somewhat familiar, that there was some older girl with the same hair colour. And while there were possibly a zillion people in all the infinite worlds out there that he didn't yet know about that had elder girls with a silver-white hair, the description sounded like a shoe-in for Raine. He had to make the post.

[But Genis looks just... terrible. He's tired and just feels just empty, not to mention hungry. You'll see a 12 year old's face just looking like he could use a really really nice sleep. And as a result, he's not afraid to be cranky. Granted, he's always unafraid to be cranky, but that's his excuse at the moment.]

I really hate to gripe about this first thing, but come on. I come straight from one world where I'm hated just for being a half-elf, and now I'm in a world where I'm hated just because I'm not from around here? Greeeeeat. You know, I'm beginning to wonder if there even is a world out there where people don't discriminate against other people for completely stupid reasons.

I mean, what'd you guys even do to the kedan anyway? Did you go out and kidnap everyone's kids or something? Because if it wasn't as big as something like that, I don't know what you could have possibly done to get them to hate you so badly.

[He says this with the most deadpan delivery ever. He then just shakes his head as if just in disbelief that he's already stuck in a world worse than the one he'd just left.]

Okay, at any rate, I don't know who exactly is out there listening to this, but... hey. I'm Genis Sage. I don't suppose any of you know someone named Raine, would you? Anyway, as for me, I guess I'm just a student at the moment, though I really haven't been attending school for a while since I've been travelling around my world for the past while with my sister and my friends. Despite that, I could probably still graduate at the top of my class even without having been diligent on all my homework last year. [He says this with a remarkable amount of pride despite his general malaise of feeling empty and tired.]

Anyway, I'd say that I'm looking forward to meeting all of you soon, but right now I'm much more interested in waiting for this massive headache to go away first. Though I'm told that's supposed to go away tomorrow, so that's one thing going my way.

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Non literal fire, then. Does that sound better? Still, I suspect if looks were a form of weapon, then we may well have been in some sort of deep trouble already.

[And then the question, and he is nodding adamantly. It's precisely what Bossuet said upon being removed, and why Bahorel had never seemed to want to stay, years upon years of working on the degree.]

I did say I was somewhat reluctant to actually practice? That would be a reason why.

Well thank good that's not the case. I think I would have been killed several times over already because of looks.

[Genis ignores the part about the non-literal fire because... it just becomes suddenly less interesting of a topic.]

So, you weren't really fond of that then? You liked helping those that were having a rougher time with things?

As would all of us. At least you are in...somewhat less than deplorable company.

[It does, doesn't it? Some things are just better with fire.]

I did. I was...the law was the lesser of two evils, when it came to studies to take me away from devoting myself to it full time. [He brightens, clearly quite a bit.] I did what I could to work with those who would come to me or who I could come to and...I wrote as well, about the reality and the idea of change. I do miss it, though it is not bad here at all, besides the kedan. That is...the world has seen much worse.

Whatever I might do to help though. That is...only right.

Well, I can certainly think of people's company that I probably would enjoy a lot less. So you're just lucky that other people have set the bar so low for you.

[Yeah, he's thinking he's rather clever for coming up with that.]

Hey, that sounds like one of my friend Lloyd's Dwarven Vows. I think it was the first one. Something like everyone working together for a peaceful world.

Though I always liked the seventh one better. "Justice and love will always win."

Oh certainly I am at that. It's always helped before.

[He'll throw the kid a bone and snicker at the comment, for what it's worth, though his expression is serious again at the mention of those vows.]

Oh I do like that one, yes. If we are part of a world, than it ought to be our own. Well, to belong to everyone, and not only a few. And so they will, eventually.

Three things will last forever, [He finds himself quoting, and though there is much of the bible he is unsure of, a few points do stand out as having wisdom all the same. Enough to share now.] Faith, hope, and love...And the greatest of these is love.

For a time, it was hard to see it, how much of a power love has, but then...

[His expression goes thoughtful, rather than misty though Enjolras is lost for a moment in thought.]

Love spurs men to do many things, does it not? It makes one unselfish, for one, more willing to give things up, and it lights the world. I have used death, as my means of fighting, when I had to, but love...the future belongs to love and I would sooner see it used, and winning, where it could.

Dwarven vows...

Well, we are not all so different as it might appear.

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[Genis looks rather self-satisfied that he managed to get someone to laugh. Technically speaking, he's laughing about it too. After all, the Dwarven Vows are rather silly.

[But the conversation takes an interesting turn, and the affect it has on Genis is rather pronounced.]

Well, love is... k-k-k-kinda nice. [Already he's thinking of Presea, that cute pink-haired girl from his world.] I mean, I guess it has... an effect on people... sometimes. It is rather... nice to think about someone you really like... and it does make you want to do things for them.

[Sigh, but he hasn't heard that she's here yet, so it might just be him and his sister.]

Ah, I miss Presea already.

[That first one certainly was a bit amusing. The second though, well, Enjolras HAS known love enough to comment on its various natures, so...he might as well. He's blinking as the boy stutters a little. In love, then. He's never been one to find children amusing when it comes to things like this either, and though he barely understands love, he'll treat it as seriously as if it were one of his friends confessing to this. Well, confessing to this during a time when no lives are at stake.

And he'll do that with the benefit of someone who has at least been there, even if the exact nature of how love works still eludes him a bit. He's nodding as Genis speaks, looking sympathetic.]

Yes, like that. I've loved a great deal of people in the ways that are less like the one you describe...and one in the exact way that you're speaking of. It helps to have the memories, even as it hurts at first. It has been...over a year now, almost two, since I last saw my Etienne here, but thinking of him...

It does still make me happy.

So that someone that you care about was actually here? And if it's been that long, you must have been here a long time then.

He was. A good deal of us, including an enemy at home, were here. And now...I am the only one left. It...will be three years this summer that I've been here. It does get a bit less odd, every time you allow it to do that. And it IS possible for those you love to come through later on. I have seen it happen more than once, and well, here YOU are, to be with your sister, are you not?

[This is followed up with an encouraging smile.]

Well, I guess it might happen that she gets brought here by whatever magic is bringing people here, so... maybe.

[Still, he can't actually tell if that's a good thing or not. Well, of course it's a good thing because he would love her to be here, but at the same point, he would probably just start stammering so much that he doesn't get any words out to her.]

Because I guess it does make sense that people can come later since my sister's already here. Still, I can't help but wonder how that magical spell selects people to bring here. It almost sounds like it might have some sort of intelligence...

It would be nice to see my Etienne, again, and there is nothing wrong in hoping either of us may see those they are close to. And as to the spell, it grows more complicated. Well, I might tell you what I know, at least.

[ Enjolras does find it a bit odd, that new people are still coming, after all, an has tried to decide on a reason.]

The magic was designed to bring us here to fight, to keep our enemy from invading our own worlds, but with him gone... It must be a strong power indeed if they could not erase it, yet. I do know that once, after we fought, we were offered a way home. The fact it brings you still... Eshai, our Empress, did have a singular way about her, and talent. Perhaps her reach continues. I should not be surprised if she had some sort of a trick up her sleeve, even after death.

[Well, that's certainly news. People have told him about the spell, but not about why they needed the foreigner's help, and most certainly not that they had a chance to go home.]

The guy you fought was threatening to take over our worlds too? No wonder they brought people here to fight it before it could!

[That almost forgives a lot of what Eshai might have done elsewise. Almost.]

But if you had the chance to go home, why didn't you take it? Is your old world even worse than this one or something?

He was, yes. At least, so we were told. But still...I have every bit of faith that Eshai would be truthful with us.

[Smart as Eshai was, and as determined to save her world, Enjolras still believes that when she leveled with people, she was telling them the absolute truth. The next question is one he gets fairly often, and it's easy enough to answer now, maybe too easy, given the casual way he tosses off the answer.]

Oh, no, Paris is, it's wonderful. Well, it is a place that was good for many, myself included, with the possibility of being good for others, that we were working toward. However, I could not work for it dead. I arrived here, instead of dying and returning to my death yet somehow did not feel right.

[Genis shrugs off the first part. After all, now it's all wrapped up in a nice, neat package with a bow to make it all nice and smooth.

[As for the second one...]

Well, from that perspective, I suppose you really don't have much of a choice at all then, huh? At least you actually know that in advance rather than being surprised all at once if you'd chosen badly.

[It really IS, isn't it? It's one of those things that you really can't ponder in the here and now, he guesses.]

Knowing does certainly help. I am sure that someday, I will find a way back to my friends, when I am ready. But that day is not here yet. I feel as though...well I might as well be useful while my spirit is still willing, no?

If only you could rewind the clock to go back in time to before you died and could change that. Of course, I'm pretty sure that violates the Theory of Relativity.

But other than that, I guess so.

Rewinding clocks. That IS a nice idea, in theory. But I suppose escaping destiny is never good for very long.

[He does expect that he will not live here forever, after all, and that someday he will have to return, but to that moment. Enjolras tries not to think of it, or of Grantaire and what he's learned the man's death really meant. Or the time he saw his friends as slaves in the alternate dimension where he fought Malicant. It is too much information to process, really, but he hopes, really, that he can go back and see they are alright. It's only that he wishes to hold on a little longer here. Isn't it? ]

We return to where we came from, eventually. At least a great deal of people have moved on. And then, well, it IS a respite, after all.

I guess so. Even half-elves aren't meant to live forever. Nor should they, probably.

Half elves?

[He's leaning forward, interested.]

Is that what you are?

Why? Do you have something against half-elves?

What?

[Even though it's a screen, he's backing up a bit, looking a little embarrassed.]

Of course I have nothing against half elves. Or full ones. I apologize if I gave you that impression.

[And then another thought occurs to him.]

So among other elves...would a half one to us, well to humans, be considered a half human instead?

[And Genis will feel a little sheepish at that.]

Sorry. I'm just not used to people not being antagonistic to half-elves yet. We kind of get the short end of the stick in my world.

[But the thought does provoke an interesting one.]

I mean, I guess you could say that we're half-human, since I've got an elvish mother and a human father... but everyone just calls us half-elves, which always seems to have the ring of "not human."

[Enjolras is just going to...shift a little, looking unsure of himself for a moment as Genis speaks, but then he is nodding.]

Not all worlds are kind ones for everyone. I suppose...there are no elves in my world, so I wondered a bit. I...can be a bit too direct, I am told. I apologize for making that...uncomfortable for you.

[And probably that last bit was a little too much too, he realizes, nodding.]

It IS a shame that things like that come to matter so much, isn't it? Not human but you are a person, still.

[Genis still doesn't look at ease, certainly due to the fact that he isn't quite familiar with Enjolras yet. Trust... sometimes comes very hard. But he's still talking.]

It's alright. It's just weird. I guess a good weird.

But yeah, still a person. It shouldn't matter what you are, whether you're an elf, a human, a dwarf, or anything in between. Everyone's got the right to live.

[Oh good. Yeah, Enjolras can, uh, come on a bit too strong sometimes, with new people. Not sending people running for cover because he's scary is a good thing.]

A good weird...That does seem to be a thing here.

And so we do. Luckily, I think that here, only the kedan seem not to like any of us.

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