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[nineteenfortyfive]

[Is this not about a medical thing, this time? Seems so. Claire's a bit more relaxed than she usually is when using the network, and it might have something to do with that glass of wine in front of her.]

It's my fifty-first birthday this weekend. Do I win the award for most elderly amongst us refugees?

It's hard to believe I was in my late twenties when I first came to Olympia. Stasis is... strange, to say the least, but I'm sure any of us here for an amount of time realize that.

[Now, let's see who's going to be a smartass and make a grandma comment. She's waiting. It's there, in her smile. Do it.]

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[winecasks]

[ Grantaire has always had a somewhat flippant attitude about his death—but only his own. He will always treat his friends’ deaths with far more respect, because it’s what they deserve. They fought for what they believed in and they died for it. Meanwhile, he still feels that he hardly even deserved the honor of dying by Enjolras’ side. ]

You need not apologize for my death. It would have found me, sooner or later. I am grateful that it found me in the manner in which it did.

[ He smiles, just a little sadly, because death found his friends just moments before. ]

Enjolras isn’t easily swayed either. It is an exchange I would be glad to hear.

[ HE WANTS TO HEAR AN ARGUMENT. HE LIKES THOSE. ]

[nineteenfortyfive]

[Some men are far better than their deaths. A happy death is a quick one, and maybe that's what he found. Claire lifts her drink again.]

Here’s to a long life, and a merry one. A quick death, and an easy one. A pretty girl, and an honest one. A stiff whisky, and another one.

[Or wine. They're not her words, but she drinks to them anyway.]

... and I do believe you just want to hear two people getting frustrated at one another, good sir.

[winecasks]

I, for one, think I will drink only to the whisky and to your own health.

[ He listens to her words with a vague, bemused smile, and kicks back the rest of his drink. He’s just a confusing man, Claire. Don’t take him too seriously. ]

Oh, you’ve figured me out dangerously quickly, madame. How terribly sharp-minded you are. I do enjoy a good argument. The more frustrating, the better.

[nineteenfortyfive]

I believe something similar can be obtained from sports. Chess, even.

[winecasks]

Perhaps in some cases.

[ CLAIRE, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. ]

But I fear that I do not have the focus for chess, and I fear that I come from a group of friends who go so far as to refuse to play cards with a traditional deck. They play with decks that have had the court disposed of and replaced, you see. I imagine they would feel similarly of the game of chess.

[ There are so many monarch involved, Claire... ]

[nineteenfortyfive]

[Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ...]

I can't say I'm much of a fan of kings and queens either, but I applaud their ambition.