Hyles' face was stone-set and stoic, but it wasn't difficult to spot the little tells. Not when he was using Dash's form - she could see the little nervous twitches and tics that she shared. (Her friends had laughingly told her about them quite a few times, usually in the wake of bad poker hands.) He was fretting and worried, and that was good. Dash wasn't really going to kick him out if he lost: she'd made that decision pretty quickly. He truly believed he wasn't cheating, and he had the guts to back up his words. Not a lot of cadets had the courage to take on a challenge like hers without flinching or trying to weasel out of it. Throwing him out of the academy would be a waste. 