( as he's still playing, he mostly hears this over the pendant and is amused, only pausing song in a natural break to offer: )

Thank you, but please do what you must so we don't test at what point the resentment these mermaids have for a missed meal doesn't outweigh the sway over some of their dead.

( and it's right back to playing! because you've got a necromancer bard on your side, in a world of the dead, and that's actually useful from time to time. )