[So much for being called by her name... oh well, she can deal with it. She is an older sister! As he goes on to explain, it becomes clear that he was the last-born, be it between just the two of them or any more that had something happen to them. At that last part, she can't help but smile. Floyd seems innocent, in a way.]

Your parents must've been glad, too. You two are their only children, right?

[She can't imagine laying her only batch of eggs in the remote wilderness and just leaving the hatchlings to fend for themselves! But eel merfolk parents must have differently wired brains compared to humans.]

I have five siblings, myself. But only one of them is here with me.

[And the other ones will all die together with her. It makes her heart ache again for a moment, but her inherited will has long overruled her grief (or so she thinks).]