Chuckling first at the child's strangely infectious laughter, Wash looked up at Maxine to see which way she was pointing and then started walking, confident that Jo was following.
"That way! Good choice!" And then. "Um," he tried to recall how long it had been since he actually had a pet. "Well, I have a phone. And dinosaurs on my pajamas. And..." his hand sneaked up to tickle the girl. "A monkey on my head!"
Then he spun around so that he was walking (carefully) backwards facing the young woman. He was a pilot after all, a little crowd navigation was nothing.
"What about you, Jo? Cats? Dogs? Fish? Roaches? Ooh! I have those! Do those count?" he asked.