Chapter 1401 - Punishable Deeds.

Nero noticed things about the other candidates more slowly, the way you notice things you are not actively trying to see. The noble who had spoken back to Vane on the first day was named Corvin, and he was the best fighter in the room by a margin large enough that Vane never pointed it out and didn't need to — it was simply present in every session, in the way Corvin moved and the way other people moved differently when they knew he was watching. He was not cruel about this advantage. He was something more difficult to navigate, which was indifferent to it in the specific way of someone who has had it so long it had stopped being interesting.