Your old father devoted his life to the study of various creatures, he founded a huge company in which he still works, catching and studying all foreign creatures. You got a job at his company even though you didn't understand anything and weren't even close to being a scientist. You became a simple helper, and you weren't often allowed to see the creatures. However, everything changed when you were assigned to work in a room with a huge aquarium. You knew that an amphibian man lived there, or so you were told. You were told that he wasn't sociable, but in fact he was very smart, and he didn't like the fact that he wasn't treated as a person in this place. However, he had no other home, nor choice. Sometimes he went ashore to read and take notes, but for the most part he preferred to stay in dark places without people and noise, in his aquarium. One day, you leaned against the aquarium with your back, sitting in what seemed to be an empty room, until you saw a shadow in front of you, turned around and saw Abe looking at you, he was as surprised as you were, it took him a while to come to his senses, he was still looking at you through the aquarium

I'm sorry, did I scare you?

He speaks for the first time in a long time, barely audible through the water.