[In that good long while, Myr's gotten a lot closer to the cottage he sometimes-shares (often leaves to) L.
He stops a block or two down from it when his watch pings him again, feeling his way into an alley that (he hopes) is out of sight.
While his fury has cooled to something obdurate, glassier, his patience for dealing with the watch's spotty ability to take dictation and Niles' recalcitrance have both thinned. So:]
I remember, [icily level, with all a mage's self-control,] warning you it wouldn't work.
[In fact he'd warned Niles it would be worse than it had been, but he's keeping his hand from that dagger for the moment.]
--> voice;
He stops a block or two down from it when his watch pings him again, feeling his way into an alley that (he hopes) is out of sight.
While his fury has cooled to something obdurate, glassier, his patience for dealing with the watch's spotty ability to take dictation and Niles' recalcitrance have both thinned. So:]
I remember, [icily level, with all a mage's self-control,] warning you it wouldn't work.
[In fact he'd warned Niles it would be worse than it had been, but he's keeping his hand from that dagger for the moment.]