" I weren't beheaded, you know? What should it matter to me if some other stupid man was? They deserved it anyhow, I should think." She shrugs. "There is no point to think what is done. Will it change it? No. Will it affect what will happen? No. Had I been any longer in that damn prison, they would have booked me. And if they catch me again, you get a tattoo on your arm so everyone knows what they think you are. But I ain't. That's why that punishment were unjust. There were lots more they could have locked me up for, but not that."

She grins suddenly. "Good job I am good at lying, ain't it? They believed all I said, the idiots. Who would believe me when I say I'm fourteen?"

Eponine takes Little Women with a frown. The girls on the cover look so decidedly good. Maybe it'll be better? Well, it's better than reading about prisons or guillotines or something anyway.

"Thank you, Sir."