"Sing. Or if one is a wizard, one can ask the Sea to relay a message," S'reee said. "Even to a human's equivalent of an iMog slate if the user is a wizard."

Well, all right, one could probably work a spell to cause a message to appear on a mundane cell phone. It just wouldn't be particularly wise: most humans weren't considered currently culturally equipped for dealing with other species as equals. On the other hand, on the Internet, no one knows you are a whale.