"Really? I find it turns most men into cravens, ready to sell their own parents for just a few more seconds of life..." He shrugged his shoulders, however, as she departed, leaving that last comment to hang in the air.<br/><br/>As Astrid left him now, he found himself without any task to deal with, so instead, he spent a bit of time looking around for that damnable girl that had been up on the top of the ship. And what do you know... he finds her, after she's already found someone else.<br/><br/>Because of the distance between them, which he was shortening by drawing nearer, he was only able to catch that last bit about the boy being in a precarious state. "Is it a stow-away?" He asks the girl, deadpan.