[Giving up on the one interesting thing here that can give him conversation? As if Merlin would do that, he's as starved for wit as he is on information about home. He's not likely to leave anytime soon.]

Well, shadows tend to find the places others dislike, it's the nature of a shadow to dwell there.

[And there's a smirk as he talks, a tilt of his head as he folds his arms over his chest.]

Unless of course this is your forest, how would you know?