3.4.2-3.4.5

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3.4.4: Une Méprise & 3.4.5: Vox in Deserto

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The peasant rebels think they're attacking a guillotine, and they attack the ladder meant to save the children instead. They think they're attacking Cimourdain's republic, the republic of terror, and end up attacking Gauvain's republic, and the tool he means to use to defend it, instead. And they don't care, because in a time of civil war even an ordinary tool can be lethal. They don't know it's going to save children, and if they did they might not care, because those children are military bargaining chips. Attacking the republic of terror would be fair, in a way, and from the rebels' point of view productive, because it would destroy something that would hurt them. Attacking the republic of mercy is unfair and not even necessarily useful to their cause, but civil war makes them disinclined to take any chances at all. Even with a ladder.

And Michelle Fléchard hears a voice in the desert, after reaching the last station of the cross. She has nothing but God left, which doesn't seem like much help to me considering that this self-same God let her get into this situation.