Lucien Enjolras

Claudius smoothly elides the subject of deaths or what any given person is willing to die for. "Here's what I suspect. Since you prefer taking action to passive rumination, you're no doubt concerned about how you should act right now. Unexpected information is something to consider, to think about, to integrate into one's groundwork -- and you've been operating off the ideological groundwork set by your more philosophical counterparts for some time. That groundwork still exists -- I'm reading and enjoying some of it now -- but I imagine it feels to have ... shifted slightly. It sounds as though you've been very lucky to have comrades you can rely on, with one unreliable and irritating exception. But it seems Grantaire already had a habit of not behaving according to your expectations. Surprises aren't altogether new for him, and to be honest," Claudius says, although it's a careful honestly, "I don't think you have to act terribly differently because of it. Or act at all, if you'd like to try drinking and contemplating for a bit. You chose a good wine."