Forces of nature certainly could be a way to describe that sort of power, yes. It made sense in those terms, because after all, what else did a god or gods use but those forces? At any rate, he nodded there.

"I suppose the best thing in those cases may be the choice that does the most good...or even the least bad." he said, considering the barricade, and his choice of sending men away.

He might have had them stay, those who he'd sent home, and up their numbers and expertise, but that would, quite probably, have resulted in their deaths, and they had children. To rob a child of its parents... that was a greater wrong to Enjolras than his own death.

And there had been standing, even in the face of death, rather than surrendering to the guard, or allowing himself to be taken as their prisoner, sham trial and all the rest. It had been better to die as a symbol, terrible as it was. Sorting through them was not always easy.

"Thankfully enough, those choices are not always there."