"Two thousand and six... Two THOUSAND and six...! Truly, Sir, I cannot even imagine such a date. Is the world really so different? I cannot imagine it any other way."
She traced her blade of grass around her nose and over her eyebrow, down over her cheek, her chin, onto the other cheek and round her other eyebrow to begin again.
"You lived in a strange world - are all your houses fitted with carriages, then? And where do you keep the horse for it? You allow them in your house? That was a strange arena - I did not like that one. Monsieur Draco magicked me so I had to - I had to..."
She had to eat Howard's face. That had been the worst arena so far. Quickly, Eponine gulped at her beer, downing it without stopping. She didn't want to think about that.
Once she was finished with the can, she lay down again. She could feel it starting to take hold now, that cloud of dullness descending over her brain, numbing everything. And it was all better. With a groan, she rolled so that she was on her side, facing Sigma.
"I can't imagine anywhere being more crowded than Paris, Sir. If you could see it - such people. Everywhere. And the houses, higgledy piggledy and people, ten sometimes, stuffed into one room, and children and men and girls like me, all sleeping in the streets, in the alleys, under bushes and in ditches or jails. So many people, Sir. You cannot imagine it."
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She traced her blade of grass around her nose and over her eyebrow, down over her cheek, her chin, onto the other cheek and round her other eyebrow to begin again.
"You lived in a strange world - are all your houses fitted with carriages, then? And where do you keep the horse for it? You allow them in your house? That was a strange arena - I did not like that one. Monsieur Draco magicked me so I had to - I had to..."
She had to eat Howard's face. That had been the worst arena so far. Quickly, Eponine gulped at her beer, downing it without stopping. She didn't want to think about that.
Once she was finished with the can, she lay down again. She could feel it starting to take hold now, that cloud of dullness descending over her brain, numbing everything. And it was all better. With a groan, she rolled so that she was on her side, facing Sigma.
"I can't imagine anywhere being more crowded than Paris, Sir. If you could see it - such people. Everywhere. And the houses, higgledy piggledy and people, ten sometimes, stuffed into one room, and children and men and girls like me, all sleeping in the streets, in the alleys, under bushes and in ditches or jails. So many people, Sir. You cannot imagine it."