<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/7f/Ibuki_eyes.jpg)</div><strong>Name :</strong>Heini (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=231826.msg11399165#msg11399165)<br/><strong>Element :</strong>火 Fire<br/><strong>Location &amp; Time :</strong>Palace, water clock tower<br/><strong>Tagging :</strong>Li Shin<br/><br/><hr/><br/>"YEOW!" Heini yelped in surprise more than pain. The strike across her bare backside came as something of a shock. She laughed at the judge's words. "But the machine is fascinating. And it has much to teach. Everything is in balance. Can you see it? The way the pendulum swings back and forth?" She shrugged then yelped again.<br/><br/>"Society is never to blame for it's failings. We each make our own choices in life. I had the choice between slavery and freedom, I chose Freedom. OW!"<br/><br/>She flinched as the switch touched her firmly but without actual pain. The thief straightened her leg, then yelped at the next strike. "Which would you choose?" She was whimpering a bit now, her backside on fire.<br/><br/>"Responsibility? HAH! I deny nothing and I admit... OW! Nothing!" Heini was adamant. "I take what others do not need, and I give it to those that do need it - namely myself. I am a philanthropist. Tell me, judge - OW! - How much food do you throw away? Do you think every bread roll on the baker's cart is - AHHH! - sold? If I take one, that would otherwise end up in the city dump being eaten by rats, surely I do the city a - GAHHH! OW! - a service? I should be rewarded - YEOWCH! - Not punished."<br/><br/>Her words were apparently unheeded, or possibly meaningless to the Judge, as the beating to her skinny behind continued until...<br/><br/><em>CRACK</em>"AHHHHHH! Fuck! What the hell?" That had hurt far more that the other blows and Heini felt blood trickling down the back of her thigh. Small sharp pains followed, as if splinters were being pulled from her buttock. The bleeding stopped quickly - Heini was not the sort to bleed for long, she did not have enough blood to risk loosing too much.<br/><br/>The pain - and the heat it produced in Heini's loins and nipples - was so intense that she almost missed the Judge's confession.<br/><br/>"Wait, WHAT?" Her head snapped around, body twisting, to allow her to look at the judge again. "Uh... say that again. YOU were a smuggler? HA HA HA! I love it!" She laughed delightedly. "Set a thief to catch a thief!"<br/><br/>With a giggle, she bent her arms, lifting her feet off the floor, brought her mouth in line with the catch that secured her fingers on her left hand and released it, then lowered herself again. Her left hand released her right hand and she flexed her fingers and then simply rested her hands against the wooden beam. "Sorry, my fingers were cramping, do continue".