"Yeah. And I guess when there are actual giant beasts running around, a kid with scales and fins just doesn't seem that scary."

Really, anything you can reason with is probably less scary than the monsters in this place, or the beasts who have lost all reason. As for working on talking about what's bugging him...

"I mean, if you want to work on that right now, we can. We just talked about the bit of my past you saw, so it's only fair."