"Part dolphin? No, no one on th'crew's part dolphin. But our captain's Ursula's daughter." Which he sort of hadn't meant to say, but the idea of part-dolphins . . . That was weird.

Harry tried to follow the explanation, and on the surface he did, but it was so strange to hear someone talk about people he knew, or at least had heard of, "So he's . . . almost like two different people, dependin on wha name he's usin? An he only has two kids back where yer from, an each one's from a different side o'him. Ah, I'm sorry sorry yer other sister died." That was what you said, right? That you were sorry? Politeness wasn't really a thing back home.