Wheeling Gull Isle felt your heart

Oh, he seemed to be having a harder time with common tongue than most people did. Maybe he spoke her mother's language instead? It was worth a shot. "W-w xih-huān yú," she responded, then her attention was brought back to the seashell she'd brought. 

"Oh!" she realized, nudging it toward the boy, tail waving behind her. She wondered if he even remembered giving her the rock. "Wèile nuh-ni!"