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milliways_bar2013-10-17 10:20 pm
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[oom: Guppy fails in his role as the fountain of all knowledge.]
Guppy makes it half way across the bar when he realises that a lot of the patrons are, well, kind of shorter and younger...
Hmmm.
He goes into the infirmary, and finds it as he left it (deducing from this that he has not gone back in time), except that one of his younger two (male) waitrats is attempting with limited success to feed a pair of tiny, eyes barely open half bald waitrats, still dressed in their now very oversized scrubs shirt.
"Aesclepius? Work Experience?" Guppy peers at the pair. The third waitrat, Backup, shrugs and hands him the syringe of milk.
"Wait, what happened?" he asks, but his remaining waitrat, tired by days of feeding every few hours, scurries off for a kip.
Five minutes later, he's got the two shrunk infirmary waitrats in a cardboard box on a warm towel, and is back in the bar looking for some answers.
Guppy makes it half way across the bar when he realises that a lot of the patrons are, well, kind of shorter and younger...
Hmmm.
He goes into the infirmary, and finds it as he left it (deducing from this that he has not gone back in time), except that one of his younger two (male) waitrats is attempting with limited success to feed a pair of tiny, eyes barely open half bald waitrats, still dressed in their now very oversized scrubs shirt.
"Aesclepius? Work Experience?" Guppy peers at the pair. The third waitrat, Backup, shrugs and hands him the syringe of milk.
"Wait, what happened?" he asks, but his remaining waitrat, tired by days of feeding every few hours, scurries off for a kip.
Five minutes later, he's got the two shrunk infirmary waitrats in a cardboard box on a warm towel, and is back in the bar looking for some answers.
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Pause.
"Valjean is worried of Javert, and Javert is scared of Valjean, to put it simply, because as they have known each other long and have been associates and enemies over the years. Valjean freed him at the barricade, when Gavroche recognised him as a police spy and the revolutionaries meant to kill him; and it seems that might have been what drove him to the river: - the overwhelming debt of his life, towards one that was an enemy, and not a good man by his books, which were ever strict and of the law. Now, Javert maintains Valjean is a good man, while yet running from him to another world in fright, and all his strict books of law inside his mind have come undone."
Pause.
"Also, I did not apprehend Vlad; I merely set him terms to make amends."
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"This diagram doesn't explain what we do, mind."
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Pause.
"I asked Valjean to come and speak with you, as you are Javert's doctor and should know whatever he would freely tell."
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"I think in Milliways, people do this all the time," he says.
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"I explained the risks to Gavroche and advised him to let his sister decide."
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"I hope I will never end up in that position." Guppy says quietly. "At very least if I never know my own future I can do what I would do."
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