Surprised at the reactions that she got, Nixie snapped her book shut and had her mouth open to retort when she realized what the blonde was doing. Putting things into some sort of a holding box and then she was in the river. With a tail. Mermaid, then, and Nixie felt a moment of embarrassment for saying that she was food when clearly that wasn't the case. But it wasn't her fault that she'd made the mistake when the mermaid was parading about in a human form on shore. Too much like what Charlene does. Only if she was going to guess then she'd say that this one was younger than her sister.
"Not food then," Nixie agreed, switching out of English and back to her natural tongue. Wouldn't have made sense to any of the landwalkers up there but she wasn't worried about them, merfolk understood and she hadn't had enough chances to use it since her escape yet. "And there aren't sharks, they can't live up here. There are vampires though and we're food for them apparently." Frowning, she brushed her fingers over her neck and the marks that she was starting to doubt would go away. Sure it'd only been a few days but Nixie could be impatient about things like that. "Is this your area?"