Kai handed her carefully down the walkway, more afraid for her balance than her shoes. Now that she was not demanding, he found her quirky and thus funny in her own quirky way. "Then it had best have whisky in it. Everything is better with whisky." What sort of person wore shoes like hers to the docks, he wondered. It was painful to watch.
Now that he did not have to focus as much on keeping her he attended to the conversation. "Staircases? I suppose a ladder of some sort would work. The boat rises and falls with the tide so I don't know if a staircase would work right." He considered her suggestion carefully, same as if a seasoned sailor had suggested it, rather than a woman with next to no sailing experience. "Perhaps it would."
Tugging on his beard in thought he cast her a sidelong look, "So I take it you will be coming back around again?"