why are you so petrified of silence

Peter followed Loren through the stacks. Glancing back at the spymaster as he explained what he'd been up to in Halo, the healer returned to trailing his finger along the books. "That's good to hear." Pausing, he pulled out one and started flipping through it. "Do you have everything you need for training? And what do you think of the school?" Again, the questions came out distractedly and disinterestedly. The volume turned out to be unimportant, and he slid it back into place. "I was asking about what the advocates were up to, though." With that, he resumed his slow walk through the stacks, scanning the titles for anything that might prove useful to him. LOREN Not quite an open book