"Yes, and I get the connection--punishment, and hopefully correction
before it's too late to change. But the scale is so different!"
"And right now she's more interested in the punishment part than the
correction one," Odeon said. "That's not surprising--but helping her
change that emphasis has to be Sis' and my first priority."
"That will not keep her from carrying out her punishment and execution
duties, will it?" Illyanov asked.
"How could it?" Chang countered. "She is Judge as well as
Guardian--and even if it were not so, she could not deliberately fail
to perform any legal duty she is sworn to. Even with her knowledge of
her destiny deliberately hidden, she is Protector if only for a time,
as well as being the true one's Herald, and therefore incapable of sin."
"Which doesn't mean she can't make mistakes," Odeon added. "Being
human, she can--both has, and will."