( None of it gets out, sure, but Aventurine likes to think he's adept at reading Veritas' expressions by this point. Perhaps more than other people -- he bets that even if Ratio had donned his mask he'd still be able to read him well enough to get by. Better than anyone else here, at least. Which, okay, isn't really difficult but it's the spirit of the matter.

Aventurine does flash him a winning grin in order to set his mind at ease. )

You'd think they'd better screen the people who were brought here, huh. Not that I'm complaining -- they let me in, after all. But there's a difference between 'likely to backstab' and 'literally what we've been brought here to fight'. A conflict of interest was bound to arise sooner or later.