Orien wasn't expecting to be interrupted by a human, so when one showed up he wasn't too happy. Tensing up when a human got a little closer his tail swished around behind him. It was extremely powerful and could easily knock a human out if the merman felt the need to protect himself. The prince was not a violent man, he hated to fight and see bloodshed, but he would always do what he needed to do. Quickly his eyes darted to the sand and looked through to try and locate the small shuffling turtles, one of which was by the human's foot.<br/><br/>"Hey, careful where you step!" Orien snapped suddenly, there were a few stragglers still sifting through the sand and the merman did not trust the human to not crush it with their feet. The human overall looked harmless, it wasn't a fisher and had no weapon on him. If it tired anything shifty the prince would just swim away, nobody would believe it if he went babbling back to others that he saw a finned creature who could speak. It was a shame though, he liked this little area, it was apart of a beach, though it was so hidden he hadn't expected anyone to find it.<br/><br/>Carefully he scooped up one of the turtles and placed it into the water. Most of them were a distance away from the shore, safe from birds though things in the sea could still attempt to harm them while they grow up, and Orien couldn't watch them forever. "What're you doing here? It's far and hidden from the rest of your civilization," Pushing himself from the bank Orien floated around the shore. He had an escape root in his mind already in case things turned sour. He normally had other people with him, but this time he was alone and had to play things safely.<br/><br/>"I am.. a merman, I wouldn't go squawking about it, nobody will believe you." He answered the earlier question, though really it was just the single word mermaid. He wasn't a maiden, clear to see with his flat chest and deeper tones to his voice. He would speak to humans, he just couldn't give away information about the life of the sea. He wouldn't want to endanger anyone, though no human had ever even reached the bottom of the ocean yet, so they were fairly safe even if they went searching.