It's so much like Nita to give such a sweet answer to a joke. It manages to put a smile on his face even as he's still trying to wrap his head around the concept of whale friends.

"Introduce me? Are your whale friends also people who transform into whales?" He was kind of imagining them being actual whales! Which may still be the case, but then a problem emerges. "Because we might have a slight problem otherwise. I can't exactly fluently speak whale, you know."

He would try as a joke, but then again, that might be slightly offensive now he realises there's actual whale people out there.