[ There's a faint smile with his nod. He'd have liked Cedric around—though not when he was a young man himself, maybe, slouching at his post and playing dice with the mages when no one was around to scold him. Would have been better for him then, though. ]
You could always ask one of the angrier mages to have a word with them.
[ Wry, but not entirely a joke. Bad idea might be more convincing from Marcus than from Cedric. ]
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[ There's a faint smile with his nod. He'd have liked Cedric around—though not when he was a young man himself, maybe, slouching at his post and playing dice with the mages when no one was around to scold him. Would have been better for him then, though. ]
You could always ask one of the angrier mages to have a word with them.
[ Wry, but not entirely a joke. Bad idea might be more convincing from Marcus than from Cedric. ]
But who knows what other words they'd throw in.