"Oh, you lovely thing," he says addressing Manticore before pulling his attention back to Shrieky. "It's meant to be spoken underwater and I think you need to have a gills or throat that's different mine, but here goes."

There's a series of short, barked, gulping sounds that he makes and identifies as 'hello', 'don't eat me/I come in peace', 'trade', 'unsafe/flee'.

"I'm not even sure if that's their normal language or just something wizards were taught so we could communicate in something that wasn't English."