Dungeon Calamity (The Divine Dungeon, #3)

by Dakota Krout

<Oh, be quiet, Dale. You have no part in this,> I shushed him nonchalantly.

Again, you're describing what he JUST SAID. We KNOW what he just said. The point of fancy "said" verbs/phrases is to add to or enhance the dialog, not to repeat the contents of the dialog in a different way.