[Ah, his new acquaintance is now pretty much pleading with a shrimp and they're starting to gather a bit of an audience, even if it's just passersby slowing down to try and figure out why these coven members seem to be enacting a drama in the middle of the fountain (the shrimp is a bit small and hard to see, so it just sounds like they're having some kind of spirited discussion to someone casually listening in).

Lenka is wracking his brains trying to figure out other ways to tame a shrimp -- what do shrimp eat? If you get a second shrimp, does that make the first friendlier? And other vaguely stupid-sounding ideas of that nature -- when the shrimp finally budges!

Or doesn't budge, rather. Nevertheless, he's been watching closely.]

... It stopped. [what was different just now? It was still people language, but--] Maybe you need to say the commands differently.