“Do you know, Din, that when I first considered you for this job, there was only one manner in which you were deficient. And it was that you weren’t hurt enough.” “Hurt?” “Yes. For the most passionate Iudex officers are the ones who’ve been harmed, you see. Those who have been wounded once and watched the wicked go unpunished. It puts a fire in them. Doesn’t make them good at what they do, necessarily, but it does make them…enthusiastic, let us say. Willing to suffer, and bear burdens others could not.”
