[That does seem to help, given that Edgeworth does in fact turn down the glare. Only a portion of his tension drains away, however, and he crosses his arms with his tea in hand, tapping his finger on the cup instead of his arm.]

That would seem to be an obvious necessity. A basic understanding of the biology and anatomy of merpeople would undoubtedly be of use as well.

In any case, two questions come immediately to mind about your presentation thus far. First, is there any particular reason why you are simply showing me various objects without actually describing them? I can suppose from context that the brass loops you just showed me were the anklets you mentioned earlier, and I did notice that the statuettes you showed me appear to also function as containers. However, the relevance of the latter in particular eludes me, and I'm unsure what the headband is given that what you were describing at the time was an unfinished product whose existence you had to think for quite some time to even recall. Second, you've shown me metal items apparently created by merpeople; how is it that they practice metallurgy in the first place?