Yep. That is clearly an intelligent, tool-using fruit thieving mer-something with one arm and an Attitude. Could be a girl, could be a slim boy, or Julien could be entirely off the mark.

This is not how he'd envisioned meeting the locals and Julien is not trained in first contact. Honestly if they'd been land people he would have seen them from miles off and been able to fly back and talk to someone. Well. It's probably good to try and establish he's a person, somehow?

He works his tongue and waggles the crabapples. Mmm, mmm, bite-sized fruit, larger and more swollen than the rowan berries. He lets go - they float - and nips one off the stem, then grabs the rest and pokes the one with his beak tip so it bobs further away from him and immediately runs aground against floating kelp.