"The sea is not the only one to hold secrets." Dorian summons a book, seemingly from the air itself, and flips through it to an open page that has a rough sketch of the same skeleton below them on it, offering it to her to look for herself.

"I did this two moons ago when the Queen hatched a dragon. No one ever expected to see them again, and yet one lives in the castle as we speak. Unlikely things are happening all around us. If the bay can be drained and dragons can come back from extinction, one would be forgiven for thinking that anything might be possible." Once more Dorian sounds thrilled at the prospect where others might be nervous or scared. He leans on the ship's rail, staring down into the waters as if considering diving in.

"I would never have expected to see the merfolk or living dragons in my lifetime just months ago, and now I have seen both. Whatever disaster, creature, or magic is destroying this city's legacy now, might one day be another cornerstone of our history for those who come a century after us. It is as exciting as it is terrifying, isn't it?" He looks to her as if trying to gauge her feelings on all of this. She came with them out to sea, so he has some guess her interests might lie in the merfolk at the very least.