Stillness Synonym Novels & Stories

"Which is not the same thing but is close enough for now." I pick up both documents. "We are going to Riven," I say. div() He reads the divine contract four times. Four complete readings, slow and thorough, and when he is finished he sets it down and he is very still for a moment in a way that is different from his usual stillness. His usual stillness is the stillness of a man who is present and processing. This is the stillness of a man who has just recalculated something significant and is deciding what the recalculation means.