"Rather. Mine were not always the best, but..." Enjolras offered a small smile as things were. "It is more about all of us than the powers that be, I should think."

Eshai had won him over when she pointed out Malicant's threat to their worlds at home, if they were true, and Evandau never had. Even when Enjolras had not suspected the man of being influenced by Malicant, he had thought him a bad ruler, but they were two people in the scheme of this. Two people who were now gone, and who the fight had moved beyond. Maybe it had never belonged to the Empress or her successor, but to all of them instead.

"I would rather we had not...our recent tragedy could have been done without, but I think that because of it, we've learned how best to forge ahead into the rest of this, yes? There will never be right in what happened, but this way, we can ensure, at least, that they did not go in vain. It gives us all a strength of will, I think."