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Lucien Enjolras ([personal profile] untamedantinous) wrote2024-01-02 04:49 pm

closed: and i soar through a world that is new, that is free (post-dance)

Enjolras has been puttering about the mansion in the past few days since the wedding dance. Today, he has spent some time outside with Temeraire -- it's getting colder, and the warmth of Temeraire's pavilion has become quite a snug little place to read to him, when Galahad is not. He had moved onto some canne de combat practice after their customary few chapters a day, which had occupied him until just recently.

The winter is coming in faster, now, and Enjolras has never been one for the cold. Certainly the south of France is not as far south as many other places in the world, but he grew up accustomed to it being somewhat warmer there than it was in Paris. So now, he is curled up in front of a fire that is crackling merrily, sipping at some vin chaud as he leafs through a book of recipes. There is, indeed, a pile of books nearby -- both cookbooks and others, but right now he is looking for something easy to set his sights on for his next baking adventure.
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-01-03 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Then let's make an onion soup that thou canst share with him," says Laertes, rising to his feet again with a last bite of his concha. He pulls Enjolras's hand, urging him to stand.
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-01-03 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Then I'll not press it on thee," says Laertes, and he nestles easily into Lucien's arms. "Thou didst look warm and settled in thy place. An thou wouldst rather sit by the fire, I'll sit at thy feet and hold thy hand."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-01-03 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
"That makes me glad to hear--I'd feared that obligation would compel, where I would rather inclination invite thee to dance."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-01-03 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
Laertes laughs and tugs Lucien over to the couch across the fireplace from their two chairs, snatching up the last of the vin chaud to carry over with them. "Oh? Was he sweet to kiss?"
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-01-03 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Wouldst have him kiss thee again? Or hast thou had thy fill?" He takes a sip of the vin chaud (still deliciously warm on his tongue) and then passes it back to Lucien. It's easy, now, to adjust so that their bodies are comfortably angled together: Laertes's legs thrown over Lucien's lap, his arm tucked under Lucien's, curled around his back.
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-01-03 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
"I'd like it just a little sweeter, but ay, the spices are good," says Laertes. "We might make a brioche after the old fashion with these fruits and spices; I know not how to bring the taste of wine in without making a soup of the bread dough, but I'm sure there's some recipe that will answer the purpose."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-01-03 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
"That reminds me--hast thou thought further of what thou wouldst like to print?" They've done some practice typesetting to make room labels in service of Laertes's vision and Susan's, and they're starting to gain something approaching proficiency with the art.
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-01-03 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Susan has begun a project of inventory; there may soon be call for further signs, and she'll likely appreciate the precision of the printed word," suggests Laertes. "But thou might'st try writing an essay of thine own, about the principles thou hold'st sacred. To have our own thoughts on the right organization and conduct of a society set down and shared will make them easier to debate, when we begin having meetings."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-01-03 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"I doubt my philosophy would stand to be written--it's a thing felt more than thought, composed of passions more than of arguments," Laertes demurs. "Considered with an academic eye, all its unfounded premises would fall to pieces."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-01-03 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"If it were merely a matter of liking, then there could be no debate; as the ancients tell us, there can be no disputing of tastes," laughs Laertes. He noses against Lucien's cheek. "But other questions--whether leadership is needful; how disputes ought to be resolved--may become more urgent as our small society grows."
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-01-03 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"How wouldst thou resolve a dispute, in this republic of the mansion?" Laertes asks as he settles. "Say--one steals from another that which cannot be replaced. Tress's spores, perhaps. Lan Wangji's blade. How wouldst thou answer the theft?"
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[personal profile] timebethine 2024-01-03 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"That is the fundamental problem of Rousseau, is it not? How to attain order not through the threat of force--which always encourages the exercise of force--but instead through mutual agreement. But if we defer the ability to wield force to the republic, we have not resolved the problem of force; we have only changed who is permitted to wield it."

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