"I can pay attention," Shadow said, taking the notepad and just opening to a loose page. And listening to Clef talk, which was certainly a lot, and also not something where his opinion mattered much. This was about Link and Clef and Link should make his own decision on that.

"There are definitely no books," Shadow said, twirling the pen between his fingers. "Any there might be ya'd risk getting reliant on to try and quantify how ya feel instead of looking how ya actually feel."