I'm glad. She's rooming with one of my most trusted friends in Luceti. They're in this building actually, so it's one of the reasons I thought this place might be okay for you, eh?

[He blinks and has to think that over. He gestures to a chair and whistles.] Mind if I grab a seat?

That's.... a complicated answer. I'm not normally a nice guy, actually. I'm a pirate. But I'm a pirate who defended a lot of home islands of my Pops. Fishman Island, Foodvalten, Samba Island... [He gets distant, thinking it over and shakes his head, switching briefly out of bird tongue.]

In my world, there are only five flying zoans like me. And we wouldn't be able to be friends if we met, because of the pirate thing. [And back into avian with his excitement:] But here I have met two other phoenixes! One is like a brother to me, the other like a younger sister.

I can no longer protect Fishman Island back home, but the princess I mentioned, she's here. And Keimi is another mermaid I protect here. And Robin, my love, she says we're all connected in this place, because we're all bound by being trapped here and facing shifts and kidnappings together. I think she's very much right.

I can't be nice to everyone, it's not in me. But you're a bird like me, and you seemed like you could use the help.

Is it bothersome?