"And what's the difference between us, that you'll brush his sins aside and not my own?" Maati smiled. "You aren't him," he said. "And you love him." Maati took a pose of affirmation. "And love is more important than justice," Seedless said. "Sometimes. Yes." Seedless smiled and nodded. "What a terrible thought," he said. "That love and injustice should be married."