[KAEL — POV]
"You're smiling," Riven said.
Kael looked up from his phone. He had been, in fact, something adjacent to smiling, though he would have characterized it as an expression of measured satisfaction at a positive development in an ongoing situation.
"The review outcome," he said.
"Yes," Riven said. "Of course." He sat uninvited, as was his custom. "Kael. I watched you read that message and I want you to understand that whatever you think your face is doing and what your face is actually doing are two different things."
"Riven."
"I'm making an observation."
"Make fewer."
"This is me making fewer." Riven crossed his legs. He looked at him with those three-hundred-year-old eyes that had watched him through a significant portion of those three hundred years. "I need you to cons
