"Well... that is debatable." Eponine forced a laugh. She couldn't think it right that Ella was behind bars, despite feeling a little resentful towards her.
"It is a shame that she is not here - well, I suppose it is good - but you know, she does not seem to be too bad sometimes. I think she is starting to like me a little too. But Hattie - she will not cope - especially if they ask her to go with them, these soldiers. Me, I'm not scared. They can't do anything that somebody else has not done already. But Hattie will be awful."
Eponine leaned back on the bed. "On the good side of things though, a man made my arm better, where Kyra had bit - you see?"
She waved her left arm about. There wasn't even a plaster now, and no teeth marks or ripped skin or ugly scars. It was as fine an arm as it ever had been.
"So you can tell that to your friends - they all think I am bad, and that it is good for me to be marked."
Re: The Barracks
"It is a shame that she is not here - well, I suppose it is good - but you know, she does not seem to be too bad sometimes. I think she is starting to like me a little too. But Hattie - she will not cope - especially if they ask her to go with them, these soldiers. Me, I'm not scared. They can't do anything that somebody else has not done already. But Hattie will be awful."
Eponine leaned back on the bed. "On the good side of things though, a man made my arm better, where Kyra had bit - you see?"
She waved her left arm about. There wasn't even a plaster now, and no teeth marks or ripped skin or ugly scars. It was as fine an arm as it ever had been.
"So you can tell that to your friends - they all think I am bad, and that it is good for me to be marked."