[Frieda really struggles to understand how such a loving mother wouldn't have kept her eggs close to her, but it must boil down to simply the different nature of merpeople - a nature Floyd promptly demonstrates in his shock over her big family. And cute as the mental image of baby Jade gnawing on his tailfin is, hunger is a serious problem! She's glad that Floyd helped him stop doing that, else who knows how ratty his tail would look by now?]

Humans don't need as much food as merfolk.

[She's seen Jade gulp down multiple fish while cooking and then still eat a good share of the meal too - she'd be overstuffed!]

You two have been living on land for a while now, haven't you? Jade told me that your parents sent you to attend magic school there. Surely, there's enough food for everybody?

[Granted, she doesn't know how hard life is for beastmen or fae and if they also have to hunt to survive in their realms, but as far as she knows, at least some of the students are humans! They would've been able to tell the others about agriculture and livestock cultivation.]