Éponine paused in the process of hauling herself upright to lean against the tree trunk and made a soft huffing sound.
"I've been worse off, goodness knows. Anyhow, it isn't as though you meant to," she said; it was a fairly belated answer, granted, but she was still fairly out of it. "That's different, I think."
She wasn't sure how, exactly, but she had the sense that it was even if she couldn't articulate it. Not like her father or Patron-Minette, always finding ways to get better at hurting people for their own advantage.
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Date: 2013-09-11 05:19 pm (UTC)"I've been worse off, goodness knows. Anyhow, it isn't as though you meant to," she said; it was a fairly belated answer, granted, but she was still fairly out of it. "That's different, I think."
She wasn't sure how, exactly, but she had the sense that it was even if she couldn't articulate it. Not like her father or Patron-Minette, always finding ways to get better at hurting people for their own advantage.