"Let his name be recorded in every place of honor. Let him take the law he serves so well to those who have it not. Let him bring Law to the lawless, carrying it with him like a torch until the end of his days."
[Rico quotes this grandly, gesturing with a single hand, as if reciting from a book.]
But in smaller words if you need them, for the disgraced Judges or the retiring ones, they have options. [Options. Sure.] When you take the Long Walk, they hand you provisions, your gun and ammunition, then show you the door to the Undercity or the Cursed Earth. And once you take the Long Walk, there's no coming back from it. No Judge has ever returned from one, and they wouldn't be accepted back if they did.
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[Rico quotes this grandly, gesturing with a single hand, as if reciting from a book.]
But in smaller words if you need them, for the disgraced Judges or the retiring ones, they have options. [Options. Sure.] When you take the Long Walk, they hand you provisions, your gun and ammunition, then show you the door to the Undercity or the Cursed Earth. And once you take the Long Walk, there's no coming back from it. No Judge has ever returned from one, and they wouldn't be accepted back if they did.