[He nods, watching fondly as a group of merchildren swim through the city center, chasing each other as they play.]

I have spent the last twenty years looking after all of them as well as the rest of the sea. And now...they are your people too, Amphitrite.

[It's a bit of a risk, him saying that...he knows how he felt about the people of his island, after all. There's certainly no replacing them.]