Shadow took Valyn's tone as a cue to change the subject. He didn't want to continually push something that bothered Val a great deal. "I suppose it's besides the point," he shrugged, turning back to his breakfast. "What I really learned was that the man Daemon seemed to have a fairly level head on his shoulders when he wasn't ordering me about, not to mention some magic that I'm curious as to how it works. I couldn't hear anything and yet he was able to create some sort of invisible wall. I should have been able to hear something."