This Conspicuous Silence^TM is brought to you by the kitchen. In fact, it's rather noisy silence - he's making food noisily.

Don't mind him, he'll just be there, listening, ha. It's the first time that Sebastian opens up, and he doesn't want to jinx it.

Merlin has had his share of pitchforks: that inconvenient episode with Lord Vortigern and his need for the blood of a boy who did not have a father was rather hard to forget.