[ ...He was not expecting people to volunteer to dance for the mermaids. Nice meeting you too, friend. ]

You're sure you can handle that? There's a lot of them, and I'm not so sure about making yourself a target unless you've got some backup.

[ True, there's just the one guard, but he's seen too many go in the cave to assume there isn't a swarm waiting to happen. Call him cautious after they almost took his arm off a few days ago. ]