How can you be certain? [rumbles Javert back in a reckless challenge.] There is no telling whether the lot of you still-living fellows died in your beds. Or--
[He quits that thought before it can leave his mouth. He does not want to consider the alternative: that this is all some elaborate dream, his mind's form of rebellion, while his body lay recovering in the Hôtel-Dieu. That could not be possible, after months residing on Tu Vishan... could it? No. He remembered the sting of the water. He surely succeeded in his task.
Javert grins a spider's grin, devoid of all humor.]
I know you are a smart dragon. Don't believe everything you hear from those boys. That is all there is to tell. [He places his hands flat atop his desk.] And now I do not want to speak on this any further. We are not in Paris. None of us will ever return.
video;
[He quits that thought before it can leave his mouth. He does not want to consider the alternative: that this is all some elaborate dream, his mind's form of rebellion, while his body lay recovering in the Hôtel-Dieu. That could not be possible, after months residing on Tu Vishan... could it? No. He remembered the sting of the water. He surely succeeded in his task.
Javert grins a spider's grin, devoid of all humor.]
I know you are a smart dragon. Don't believe everything you hear from those boys. That is all there is to tell. [He places his hands flat atop his desk.] And now I do not want to speak on this any further. We are not in Paris. None of us will ever return.