Jenn had no idea how to answer his questions, she didn't understand it herself. It was just how things were. If she had made the mistakes that Emry's had made over the past few weeks she would have gone crazy from the guilt and would have had no choice but to beg her Master to punish her. Out of fear that she would do it herself.
She would have spoken up and taken the punishment if she had done anything wrong but she hadn't. Had she? She hadn't broken the string after all. She was halfway through obeying Emry's order before she had even processed what he had said. His final comment snapped her out of it though.
"Me? Perfect?" Jenn stopped crying in a state of shock at his words as she shook her head in disbelief. "Don't insult me, I know I'm not even worth the air I breathe" I try to breathe shallowly, honest, Master