[As much as Javert intimidates him, it is not in Temeraire's nature to back down from what he views as a fight, especially when his friends become involved. His ruff flares and he brings his jaws up in an unspoken challenge.]

It strikes me that the Amis are all quite sensible men, who were fighting for perfectly reasonable things, such as education, and rights, and the situation would not have grown dangerous at all if they were simply given what they requested. It is hardly their fault that they were tricked the first time, with a new king swapped out for an old one, instead of the Republic they wanted.

[At least, that is how he understands the situation. It is a little strange to be debating something which has not even happened yet for him. He pauses, before he adds speculatively:] Unless you do not wish anyone to have education, or rights?