The lack of verbal response had Zacharias lifting a blonde eyebrow in an arching motion. Sliding the door shut behind Merlin, he turned to face him as he stood there, in the center of the room.
"Cat got your tongue?" he asked. "Or have you forgotten how to speak?" Merlin Toke was a somewhat odd young man, that was for sure. But somehow, it wasn't a bad sort of odd, he didn't think.
"I don't bite you know," he added, and then he smirked in a sly, knowing way.