The Amis dealing with the recovery of one of their own from a brutal assault, how they help one another recover, and how they move forward after winning their revolution after an even bloodier barricade.

The first time, it's fast and rough, something torn out of them by instinct. They're drunk, and it's a surprise, and it isn't. The room is spinning and then it's not, and he has Grantaire spilled over a table. None of the upended bottles spill because they are empty.