Shiro watched Keith and felt a jolt of excitement within him. This new method of explanation was really working and they were able to communicate so much more clearly. He was getting through to Keith and his original thought that Keith was related to merfolk had hit the man too. Shiro watched him shrug off the idea and then gently placed a hand on Keith's arm, both reassuring him and getting his attention. Shiro pointed to the necklace again and quickly drew a pregnant belly on the mermaid he had drawn earlier. He poked a string of dots around her neck, then pointed from it to Keith's necklace. He was almost certain that this kind of necklace and those kinds of shells came from a mother. Perhaps Keith's mother was a mermaid, or she had cared for him for a while when she was a baby. Shiro wished he had the words or the mental strength to explain to Keith, but draw away he did.

He drew what he imagined a baby man might look like. Tiny arms and legs, with a few hairs on top. He drew it crying, then a very quick dead man lying down. He then drew the sea below the baby and drew a mermaid holding out her arms towards the baby. His drawings were getting more crude in his excitement to communicate the idea. But perhaps Keith had been looked after by a mermaid and that explained the necklace. He pointed to Keith, then drew Keith's hair on the baby, which in any other circumstances would have looked hilarious, but he looked eagerly to Keith. He pointed to the dead man in the drawing, then looked at Keith questioningly. Did Keith's parents die? Or did they leave him? If they had, his drawing theory could make sense. If not, they were back wondering why Keith had such a necklace in the first place.