Selenne began with the Rotunda report.
The first pages concerned Lucavion's assigned identity: Master Corvin Aerath, a young heir whose standing required restraint, social confidence, and enough political awareness to recognize which associations would strengthen the role and which would diminish it.
The evaluators described Lucavion's performance in clinical terms. He had maintained the appropriate distance from lesser-ranked participants without appearing insecure, accepted familiarity only where Corvin Aerath could afford it, and adjusted his conduct whenever deference would have weakened rather than elevated his position.
Selenne had watched him do all of it.
The report merely arranged those observations into categories and attached scores to decisions that had unfolded more naturally inside the Rotunda. Lucavion had not appeared to calculate every greeting or pause. He had inhabited the identity well enough that other participants adjusted themselves around him.
