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[grand_r]

[When the video comes on, the man seen isn't quite looking at it. It's immediate upon viewing that there is blood staining his shirt and bulletholes through his vest. Nonetheless, he looks quite alive.]I had no doubt that the streets of Paris were going to be transformed, but this is far beyond what I had imagined. Or is this not Paris after all?

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[marriedforlove]

A Frenchman?

[She says this calmly enough, but France is no true ally either to her native Spain or currently in her world, England. And she is the one who taught Henry to baffle the French.]

[grand_r]

That I am, mademoiselle, as true as they come.

[marriedforlove]

[They will see if a Frenchman turns out to be true.]

Your name?

[grand_r]

Sébastien Grantaire, however, you may simply use my last name. In fact, I encourage it. I have not heard my Christian name said since--ah, childhood, if even that!

[marriedforlove]

Grantaire, then. [She says it with a remarkably authentic accent. She may dislike the French, but French is still a language learned by a monarch.]

[grand_r]

You do not seem to be French yourself, but I admire the correct pronunciation.

[marriedforlove]

I am not French. [Have some Spanish pride.]

I am a princess of Spain, married to England.

[grand_r]

I speak to royalty, then?

[He exaggeratedly bows.]

An honor that I never thought would be bestowed upon me.

[marriedforlove]

It would not have happened at home. But here, everything is different.

[She understands she cannot expect to be served as a queen, that a monarch is not sacred to many of the people here, so many changes. She will adjust, and wait, and one day return home.]

[grand_r]

To think--partake in a revolution, then talk to a queen. Irony at its finest.

[marriedforlove]

Revolution?

[Do explain, possibly-true Frenchman.]

[grand_r]

Indeed. One doomed from the start.

[marriedforlove]

I would hear the rest.

[grand_r]

Would you? [He grins crookedly.] I am afraid that I am the last of us who you ought to be asking for details of it.

[marriedforlove]

[She makes a sweeping gesture at nothing, as if to indicate he is the only one here.]

[grand_r]

If only Enjolras were here to give you one of his speeches. Ah, even you would rebel against your own monarchy.

[Chuckle.]

He--they--sought freedom. To raise the people of France out of the gutters where most of us resided. The right of all men.