"People are quick to believe that my position administering the law means that I believe it the final arbiter of justice," he replies. "The reality is that I am forced to be more aware of its failures than most."
And there are few it failed so utterly as Wriothesley. Even with how he has worked to correct that source of injustice and misfortune, there are still far too many cracks. A society of imperfect beings is definitionally imperfect as well.
(Another service Arlecchino renders to Fontaine, though she knows not that he considers it such - Neuvillette would far rather the orphans be given unto the House under its current, damn-giving patriarch than he would for the other forces on Fontaine's streets who might desire them.)
"You would have a better idea than I," he says. "As the one who inherited the ideal of 'Justice,' I do intend to deliver judgement on the gods - but for the greatest part, they are not going anywhere, and the Heavenly Principles are a far more immediate concern to all of us."
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And there are few it failed so utterly as Wriothesley. Even with how he has worked to correct that source of injustice and misfortune, there are still far too many cracks. A society of imperfect beings is definitionally imperfect as well.
(Another service Arlecchino renders to Fontaine, though she knows not that he considers it such - Neuvillette would far rather the orphans be given unto the House under its current, damn-giving patriarch than he would for the other forces on Fontaine's streets who might desire them.)
"You would have a better idea than I," he says. "As the one who inherited the ideal of 'Justice,' I do intend to deliver judgement on the gods - but for the greatest part, they are not going anywhere, and the Heavenly Principles are a far more immediate concern to all of us."