Hmm. We could, I suppose. Although, if those are the terms these dream people are used to, it wouldn't do any harm to use them. Perhaps they only sound like insults to me.

[He shrugs, feathers shifting gently. Keeps up the steady pace of their rowing as they encounter a bend in the passage, a need to navigate around jutting rocks.]

But a er, a faun, is it? What does that make me, then? I'm thinking raven which...well, it's fitting.