He flinches at the scolding, the tone and all. Especially the noting that he made sound-- even a tribute wants his silence, that's different. He bows his head, then after a pause, gives a nod. Yes, sir. Of course.

But he's learned something from it too; what noise he got to making has some association with those daywalkers. He can't be surprised he got attacked over such a thing. Even a year in this place, without any daywalkers up at all, he'd been taking heads off just to be sure... Of course, he could and would do no such thing now.