Mikey felt a smile creeping onto his face at such naked flattery. "He is a man with remarkable foresight," he said wryly.
Hearing the gritty details of the bindrune for the first time was enough to wipe any traces of light-heartedness from the conversation, though. "You never mentioned any of that," he said, his fingers curling in on themselves by his side. "I'd just assumed it was a random target thing." The idea of somebody in the castle deliberately giving Spencer nightmares made him feel ill. And pretty furious. "Why didn't you say?" he said sharply. "What if whoever it was had tried something worse?"