"Idiots. Or if they're starving. Mermaids don't reproduce. In this, they are like demons. They corrupt others, humans, and then eat the humans who've been fed mermaid. It's a whole big half-cannibalism mutual, but not really consenting circle. Of death." Waggles fingers. He doesn't even know the story of Ariel, but he wouldn't feel guilty for ruining it either.

"I do not understand the rules of spirits."