This will not do.  My Target seems to have undergone a change, albeit a minor one.  This changes my approach.  I cannot simply lie in wait for the proper time, as I'd planned.  Now I must be much more active, more aggressive.

My Target must be kept a coward.  Weak, timid, afraid.  This bolstered courage is unacceptable.

25 days now.  He will not be allowed to escape his fate.