Enjolras nods. He's thought about this, to some extent, though he's thinking more deeply now; it's always different to hear someone else's thoughts moving in parallel with your own, or along different lines.
And Bahorel's right. Some of them will be gone -- to prison, to exile, to cholera or duel or injury gone septic, summoned home by family need, any of a dozen fates that could strike without warning, and often without the slightest note in a newspaper or history book.
"Even without that... The codes will change. Soon enough our ways of making sure a message goes to the right ears will only be enough to say the writer of this knew something in '32."
That may be an entirely moot point. They may never get another chance like this. (He may never see their own France again. He moves on from that thought; he knows, he's known with every breath of Parisian air and then Milliways afterwards, but it's for later.) But if they do, if they get any kind of chance to do real work in Paris again -- then what month and year it is, in which world, will matter deeply to what use they can make of that chance.
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Date: 2015-11-24 05:24 am (UTC)From:And Bahorel's right. Some of them will be gone -- to prison, to exile, to cholera or duel or injury gone septic, summoned home by family need, any of a dozen fates that could strike without warning, and often without the slightest note in a newspaper or history book.
"Even without that... The codes will change. Soon enough our ways of making sure a message goes to the right ears will only be enough to say the writer of this knew something in '32."
That may be an entirely moot point. They may never get another chance like this. (He may never see their own France again. He moves on from that thought; he knows, he's known with every breath of Parisian air and then Milliways afterwards, but it's for later.) But if they do, if they get any kind of chance to do real work in Paris again -- then what month and year it is, in which world, will matter deeply to what use they can make of that chance.