[For all his protestations, Gepard moves in the dark water so that he's just in the right spot to catch him if Sampo did decide to throw himself into the ocean. It's sweet, really, that he really is willing to rescue Sampo even if he says that he won't, even if it would potentially put himself in danger. What a dutiful merman! A real catch, you could say.]

[He sits back on his heels, away from the edge. Calm down, fishman, he won't yeet himself to his death just yet.]

You won't follow me wherever I go? Ah, I suppose I can't ask for that kind of devotion just yet! [Sampo what are you talking about.] Maybe I'll have to follow you. Let me think about it.

[Gepard won't have to turn himself over to the merfolk guard for talking to a human if that human doesn't exist anymore, would he? He'd look silly, trying to turn himself in for talking to a human when that human as a fish tail just like him.]