[ ... don't use your hands... she definitely intended to, from the way hers lower to the utensils after a moment. the soup dumplings are her favorites, but she'll cleave a meatball in two so she can eat it a little more readily.

well, pause before she does so, setting the fork back down. ]

... That, we do not know. The city itself, it seems, metes them out as impartially as can be. Though I have qualms with the results.

[ now she'll eat her meatball, mmm. tastes just as good as the last time she had it. ]

Zuh one... Kehm. [ sorry. hold on. ] For the less serious crimes, the one who is committing it is cuffed to another. But with death, it does not matter if it is fair combat or one-sided: both parties... as well as any who witnessed it, are punished. Though in differing ways.

[ it isn't fair, really. self-defense... may not count, or it may, but they haven't tested it out precisely. the one time it was... she hadn't faced any consequence of it. was it because kromer had become so far gone? or was there something else? ]

'Tis an oddity, for certain, to be judge by no eyes and yet dealt with thusly. Thee should not worry about it, though.