AIE Tarot Challenge: No. XI Justice

Justice

>You have no regrets.
>The pony was a pedophile. He was evil. He had to be punished.
>He was a very important pony. Important enough to have the story hushed up before it reached the authorities. But you knew. You heard the rumors, and you could see the guilt in his eyes.
>So you punished him.
>First you captured him. It wasn’t hard. You are a genius, much smarter than him.
>While you were getting ready, he begged you to let him go. Begged you to let him live.
>Foolish pony. Death is a kindness. Death is not Justice.
>Later, he begged you to kill him. You didn’t. You were going to punish him with life.
>Life with one eye, so that he every time he looked in the mirror, he would see what you did. You made him eat the other eye.
>You also removed his tongue, so that he couldn’t tell anyone it was you. Of course, you waited until he begged for death first. You wanted to hear that.
>The ears were disappointing. You wanted to see if you could rip them off with your bare hands, but the blood made them too difficult to grip, so you had to use your teeth.
>In the spirit of curiosity, you also decided to remove all the flesh from one foreleg, just to see if you could do it without killing him. You tied a tourniquet first, of course. You didn’t want to kill him. Death is not Justice.

>After many hours, you finally put him back in his home.
>You didn’t cover your tracks well enough, however. Later that week, two guards asked you to come in for questioning.
>They didn’t have much experience with bipedal creatures. If they did, they would have shackled your hands behind your back instead of in front.
> You tried to give them quick deaths. They weren’t guilty. They were simply in the way.
>Later, Twilight came to you. She was suspicious.
>She was innocent.
>You hesitated.
>She didn’t.
>After she turned you in, you were sent to prison. You don’t blame her. She just doesn’t understand Justice. None of them do.
>You aren’t worried. They are soft. For now, you will wait. And one day, you will escape. And you will continue
>to give Justice.