Dylan could call, but he didn't think the police would hear him from here unless they were very, very close. "I won't tell them," he said. They might not like merpeople, especially since they didn't wear clothes. Plus he really didn't want to miss out on getting his glitter because Fluffy had been taken away.
"If you don't know all of their names, how do you know they do all of the colours in glitter?" Dylan tilted his head slightly, wondering whether Fluffy had been lying about that. He had an excuse not to know all of their names, but Fluffy spent every day on land so why didn't she know? Didn't she ask? "A long ass-time?" Dylan made a face. He didn't understand, and he wasn't quite sure that he wanted to either; how could holding your breath relate to those wobbly behind parts? Did Fluffy breathe through hers? It would explain why she'd rolled onto her stomach...
When she mentioned being a good swimmer, Dylan laughed as if Fluffy had just told him the funniest joke in the world. "Good swimmers compared to humans," he replied. "Not merpeople. It's okay though, kelpies and ondines think they're good swimmers too," he replied, patting her foot in pity. How could legs beat a tail? They just weren't made for underwater movement at all. "But you don't even have fins. Do you change in water?" Giving her water powers was about as useful as giving him land powers if she didn't change form, but Dylan didn't get to say that. Fluffy had mentioned being a which; was this another one of those words that mean something else. "What is a which? And how can you be two su-per-na-tur-al things? I can't." Surely that wasn't fair.
Fluffy was talking in a strange way. He wasn't sure what she had supposedly seen going over his head, but Dylan was quite sure he would have noticed. And why did she think he'd turned into someone else? Dylan didn't know who this Captain Obvious was supposed to be, but it wasn't him. He still had his tail, his gills, his voice; he hadn't changed form at all!
"No, I'm Dylan...and I know what jokes are." He happened to know a hilarious little joke about a blue ringed octopus and a humboldt squid, but it didn't really translate into English very well; the humour was all in your clicks, you see. "I don't have a fish or I would eat it. Why do you have fish for pets? Do you eat them when they grow bigger? And what else do you keep for pets? Do you have a pet?"
Dylan made another face at the Ariel story. "I think humans made that up. Merpeople wouldn't be friends with their food." Really, how many fish did you meet that could hold a conversation?! People on land were so silly.