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milliways_bar2016-03-27 11:20 pm
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Spring has come to Milliways, in full warmth. The grass is greening, and the trees are in bud, and so forth. There are even trees in the mountains that are covered in pink flowers.
Were they there last year? Were they, in fact, there last week? Enjolras is not entirely certain on either count.
On the other hand: Milliways. He'll ask Bahorel, or Combeferre or Joly, if he thinks to bother, but he may not.
At any rate, he's sitting at the base of one of the pink trees, on a convenient flat rock. He has a book with him, as usual, but he's currently ignoring it in favor of an abstraction of thought.
Were they there last year? Were they, in fact, there last week? Enjolras is not entirely certain on either count.
On the other hand: Milliways. He'll ask Bahorel, or Combeferre or Joly, if he thinks to bother, but he may not.
At any rate, he's sitting at the base of one of the pink trees, on a convenient flat rock. He has a book with him, as usual, but he's currently ignoring it in favor of an abstraction of thought.
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"Without the reason for the fight, the glory -- I don't say there's none. Courage, steadfastness, those do matter. It's not empty. But it's diminished. Glory for a name, glory for its own sake, what is that beside the glory of a noble cause? And not only battle, that's another falsehood. Anything done justly and for the right cause can be heroic."
He means both halves of that: justly, as well as for the right cause. The ends may necessitate the means, to Enjolras's absolutist mind, but they can't justify it.
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"It is easy to ask people to die for a cause. Asking them to kill for it - that changes them forever. It is a heavy and bitter burden and a necessary one at times as well. Much as we would wish it wasn't so."
The dead at least know peace.
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"It's true."
"Necessity is a monster of an unjust world. To kill another person, no matter how just the cause and how pressing the need, taints the one who serves that monstrous necessity."
He's speaking as someone who has killed, and has condemned himself for it, and would kill again if the circumstances demanded it. It's clear that Elrond is too.
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"It is a hard fate, but if that is how it is-"
A small, eloquent shrug.
"And that all makes cherry blossoms and the first leaves of spring all the more important."