"It's not really much of a shop. Mostly it's just a place where you pick things up if you need them, as far as I can tell. I did get a decent coat there." Not that he's wearing it right now. It's not that cold, right? (It is definitely that cold.)

"All right, climb up on those boxes there, would you? I can't shift on the boat or I'll sink it," he says, waving at a stack piled up on the deck by the locked-up bridge. "I'll get in the air, then come back and pick you up. I've done it hundreds of times, with my own people and with groundlings like you, so don't be nervous, all right?"