After Riven’s unusual visit to his father and his spontaneous encounter with Isla, his sister—an encounter that, in turn, had led to an equally unplanned run-in with Selene—the atmosphere had grown far more coercive than he had anticipated. His father had clearly noticed the unease in his gestures during the dinner the three of them shared. That must have been why, after they said goodbye to Selene and he personally saw her off, his father beckoned him aside for yet another private ...