"Oh - mm. My people are ruled by an aquatic subspecies, and some of them use that to refer to the rest of us. I don't mean much by it. I've hardly got fins myself, after all."

She gazes out at the crowds she so peremptorily dismissed, metal fingers idly tracing patterns on the surface of the table. "They're just...they're all so squishy. And drably colored. And the whole place is a one-track-mind writ large. It's boring, no matter that I'm weaker than I should be and eager as any of them."