<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/93/Lishin.jpg)</div><strong>Name :</strong>Judge Fu Li Shin<br/><strong>Element :</strong>Fire<br/><strong>Location &amp; Time :</strong>Palace, water clock tower<br/><strong>Tagging :</strong>Heini<br/><br/><hr/><br/>The first switch struck without warning across diligent buttocks with a sharp little whistle of sliced air, a reminder that Li Shin would be setting the atmosphere. She was, for a moment, curious about the sloshing, cranking clockwork in the way one on the surface might notice the<em>rest </em>of the iceberg. "You are not here to study the machine, nor are your absent parents or society to blame." Her steely Buddha palm fingers rolled through lanky hair and pulled only enough to demand attention. The switch played from thigh to thigh, given surprising firmness and balance by the trailing length behind Li Shin's fingers. "You have abandoned them, and your family name, to become a self-made woman."<br/><br/>The switch trailed down and pressed at the knee, wanting to correct Heini's posture. Her eyes were there in the mirror, observing the same waifish figure Heini was so critical of. While Heini recalled how it had been torn down, Li Shin was interested in how it could be built up. "So stand by your choices. You have nobody to blame or thank but yourself. If you choose poorly, we'll be here again." Her eyes disappeared from the mirror, so Heini could focus her attention on the contortions of her punishment. "Here is where I use every whip, chain, clamp, cane, and device at my disposal to obtain a confession." A long, willowy step back gave Li Shin space to spring and flex the bamboo switch.<br/><br/>Seeing the red stripe of the first swat and striking it perfectly again were two different things. Her fingers tugged up the lanky crook of Heini's backside to ensure she had the right spot and not just a blush. Hours and months and years performing the same chops and kicks and demon staff twirls for her mentors at the Shaolin monastery had prepared her for this moment as the switch whistled and snapped smartly to precisely the same thin line. "The sooner you own to your theft, and your swindling, and your deception, the sooner we will finish." With the third stroke, it was committed to muscle memory. She had a structure down for Heini's punishment. Even if her captive may squirm and turn the switch could not be convinced to sting anywhere except that one martyred stripe where Heini had the cushion to take it.<br/><br/>"Take responsibility." Li Shin let out a breath as the switch bit again, and again, teasing out a little more pain each time. It was important to start small with pain, since it was relative. Growing it over time, across the same tender skin, helped to put the full magnificent range of it into perspective. "For your actions, and for the troubles that ail you." The switch quickened as Li Shin bore down and used the open space to full effect. "I will make you."<br/><br/>With each swipe a fracture was developing in the switch. Even though a swat to Heini's bare bottom was brief as a hummingbird heartbeat, a tiny extra give developed between Li Shin's fingers and Heini's bottom, where she struck supple flesh more thoroughly than a pliant bamboo rod could bear. Finally, it broke apart in Li Shin's hand only five rungs up the pain ladder, and she meticulously brushed the fibers and splinters and pulp from Heini's behind. "If I gave up on you, why should anyone believe a smuggler could become a Judge? I'm going to make you my success story, my proof." With a breath, she blew the last of the dust away.