"There are considerable internal negotiations, yes," says Combeferre, in response to Enjolras's question. "The other planets don't have a history quite as long as Earth's. But they have a long enough history to develop divisions, and inner conflicts. Each planet has its own systems, and then there is the interplanetary one."
Combeferre has mostly been ignoring Javert, and talking (and yawning, both because he's tired and because Javert's objections are boring as well as wrong) right over him. But he hears this last burst of frustration at Bahorel, and smiles. "If Joly hadn't been so willing to learn from people who live centuries after us, and in other worlds," he says, mildly, "I can think of at least one person who would have died."
Then he goes back to the more interesting subject. He, too, pitches his voice so Feuilly can hear, and Jehan, too, who's cuddling the cat in the corner. "And of course there's a greater diversity of art and language once people spread to the other planets. One of the greatest political battles was fought over which languages would be official, and which would not."
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Date: 2016-02-15 11:08 pm (UTC)From:Combeferre has mostly been ignoring Javert, and talking (and yawning, both because he's tired and because Javert's objections are boring as well as wrong) right over him. But he hears this last burst of frustration at Bahorel, and smiles. "If Joly hadn't been so willing to learn from people who live centuries after us, and in other worlds," he says, mildly, "I can think of at least one person who would have died."
Then he goes back to the more interesting subject. He, too, pitches his voice so Feuilly can hear, and Jehan, too, who's cuddling the cat in the corner. "And of course there's a greater diversity of art and language once people spread to the other planets. One of the greatest political battles was fought over which languages would be official, and which would not."