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Some time after this sign goes up, Guppy settles down at the bar, with the List, trying to work out who is still here.

They haven't checked it for a while, he notes, looking at some of the names.

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"Ah, yeah." He grins. "'Ponine's never going to have that problem."

"Fran and I looked at the growth charts - if they both continue at the same rate, with Brooke on the 98th centile and Coral on the 4th, Brooke could actually overtake Coral in height in the next couple of years. But we're kind of hoping Coral's going to gain a bit."

"Maybe. If she doesn't, though, it's not the end of the world."

"Oh yeah. I mean, I think she's always going to be petite. She was premature because she'd stopped growing in the womb, so she started off small, and Fran's not that big. Fry and Brooke got the tall genes off me I guess."

Not that Guppy looks all that tall. His posture tends to occupy less space for his height.

"I'll teach her how good little people've got it, if you want", he says with a grin.

"I think she'd like that, she sometimes gets a little shy about being the smallest." Guppy says. "At least now we can get school uniform in her size rather than having to have it made for her like we did when she first started."

"See, there's one benefit already. And there's lots of others, when you grow up used to it."

"Yeah, that and she can wiggle through loads of little holes in adventure playgrounds."

"...that one, I never tried. Except the whole of Paris was my adventure playground."

"I guess that could be a fun place to grow up. Apart from the war."

"It wasn't really a war. It was a revolution, and it didn't last long."

"So when you were little it wasn't going on?"

"Not when I was tiny. It was really only... a day and a night, just before I came here."

"So the others from your world must be from very close times."

He nods. "All of them are from that night - or the few days after, the survivors. Except Bossuet, he's from long before."

"I don't think I've met Bossuet." Guppy says. "Whose side is he on?"

"He was one of us. In 1830, he was taking part in a different uprising - came in here just after a flowerpot or something hit him on the head."

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"Sounds like France was very volatile back then."

"It was", he says quietly. "The poor just kept getting ground down, the rich didn't care. It was a powder keg."

"I wish I could say things were better in my time, but the poor still definitely get it in the neck."

"They're better. Trust me, they're better."

Those memories are still a dark place for him, when he looks back on them.

"That's some comfort at least." Guppy nods.

He looks back at his list. "I'll put you down as a first aid trained helper then?"

"Yeah, do", Gavroche agrees. "You've taught me a lot, and there's my wizardry too."

"I know you can talk to babies and plants and things." Guppy says. "And you can heal if you take damage yourself - is that correct?"

"Yeah, I can heal myself if I have to - but only if it's something I really have to do, and it's harder than healing other people."