She doesn't say anything for a moment, she simply shakes her head.

"I do not have many visitors or people to speak with any longer."

They'd all left, you see, not because she ate them - don't even consider it - but because the Core had made them disappear. She won't use the word lonely, but that's what she is essentially, living on the cusp of a foreign society to her own, separated by the shoreline.

Every social animal craves interaction on some level - mermaids are no different.