"You really shouldn't touch them..." His tone was not a snap as he watched the small shelled animal swim away into the ocean depths. They were cute, the way their little flippers flipped around as they struggled to keep up with the tides. He was anxious about most things with humans, and humans shouldn't touch wildlife as they did. He assumed yelling wouldn't work but maybe it'd be a bit of a lesson if he heard it from a mermaid.<br/><br/>"I am much stronger than I look," Orien responded with an arched brow. Mermaids were seen as delicate and beautiful, though many weren't like that. Maybe could handle themselves if they came into contact with a human. "I can also just swim away," The Merman murmured as he tipped his head back to look at the blinding sun. Swimming back to the shore he rested in the soft wet sand and looked at the human with curiosity dancing in his eyes, he had never been so close.<br/><br/>"Do me a favor and try not to touch the animals, and-- clean up garbage by the sea, even if it isn't yours," Those were good things to say to a human, right? He was cute, for a human with his fleshy legs and dry body. "What's your name?" The human had good intentions, so Orien wasn't too keen on leaving just yet, he hadn't met a good human before. Tilting his head drying dark locks swished over his eyes.<br/><br/>"Mine is Orien," He didn't have a classic style name for a merfolk. Some named their children after Atlantis and other cities, a popular female name was Coral or pearl. One with a stingray half may be called Raymond or Raymona. He got a bit of a kick out of the pun names that some people had, but his name was just an oddball one, one he never had an issue with during his school years.