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You shift gears with a satisfying *click*. TERMINAL Y – RAFFINERIE “REVACHOL-OUEST” – ZONE 30. Above, on a smaller, green plate: RTE DE LA CHIMIE. Underneath: ARRÊT INTERDIT.
(April, '52. A man is dead, the air is tingling with the heat of an untimely summer, and everything smells of kerosene.)
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Machina Mundi by Fractal_Generator
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
16 Mar 2025
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“O distant horizons, rejoice – it is you that angels deign to behold! Though I beseech saint-generalissimo Michael to develop even the mildest form of myopia, he spares not a glance at our vale of tears!” Grantaire throws up his hands, as if to accentuate the anguish that comes with unanswered prayers. “Then again, it would be prudent of me to inquire elsewhere – the addressee’s angelic head may have divorced his body; as we know, in their day, the good sans-culottes led many a general to the scaffold and yet more saints to an honest life. Why? Because 1789 was a dreadful year for palaces. Phra Maha Prasat succumbed to lightning, Tuileries – to Sieyès. The former is said never to strike twice, but the latter had no such inhibitions; and so Man prevails over the heavens…”
Enjolras elects to ignore the rest of these lamentations as his patience, left to fend for itself without reinforcements, evacuates the battlefield. “Is there a method to this madness, or are you stringing words together for the sake of it?”