Dio's senses are not tuned to finding mermaids. In fairness they might not even exist as far as he's aware, aside from the fact that there's one lurking in the water, perhaps planning to use her siren wiles to lure him to his watery grave. Well joke's on her, he can't drown!
... No, probably not. Frankly he's never really had any problems with women, be they young old or of the finny sort, so he doesn't really expect that to start now. Which means when he's addressed, Dio's gaze shifts with excruciating slowness to Ariel herself.
Maybe she's just a nighttime swimmer.
"And what would that do? Would someone come forth and punish the waves for disturbing me?" Probably, given how this stuff worked out normally. For all that he sure sounds irritated, it's pretty obviously not directed at the mermaid. IT'S THE SEA. His tone shifts, ever so faintly apologetic. "... The sea troubles me not, little one. What may lie within it, waiting for me to drop my guard, is however very troublesome."
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... No, probably not. Frankly he's never really had any problems with women, be they young old or of the finny sort, so he doesn't really expect that to start now. Which means when he's addressed, Dio's gaze shifts with excruciating slowness to Ariel herself.
Maybe she's just a nighttime swimmer.
"And what would that do? Would someone come forth and punish the waves for disturbing me?" Probably, given how this stuff worked out normally. For all that he sure sounds irritated, it's pretty obviously not directed at the mermaid. IT'S THE SEA. His tone shifts, ever so faintly apologetic. "... The sea troubles me not, little one. What may lie within it, waiting for me to drop my guard, is however very troublesome."