The spoon floated closer to Adrien and circled around his head, seemingly to inspect him. "You are Adrien, Val's apprentice?", it inquired.

Adrien stared at it, then at Val, raising one brow; but Val nodded in an encouraging way - "You can talk with them", he whispered; and so Adrien turned to the spoon again - "Yes -- yes, I am", he replied, a bit of uncertainty in his voice.

The spoon moved in a way that suggested a sort of a pleased nod. "So, can you do all the magic that Val does?".

Adrien laughed a bit at that question. "If I did, I wouldn't be an apprentice anymore!".

"No? And what would you be?".

"A master", Val said softly, but with a small, half-suppressed smirk on his face.

The wooden spoon was silent and still for a while; then it jumped upwards. "Oh! I understand!", it exclaimed - and Adrien chuckled at that; he saw that Val, too, was laughing a bit.