Even for one like him who had spent most of his youth on a ship, that was a hell of a long trip. Of course, he didn't plan to let such a beautiful high born lady know he had cursed, because he thinks she must surely be high born. Though, as Einar learned with Arneis, he to would learn with Kate. Looks didn't always mean high birth.

He still leaned on the table, his eyes widening. "Oh." The word came out in English. "much big." He would get -very- down eventually, but he was remembering Jo wanted him speaking English whenever he could. He grasped that it would help him learn faster, still sometimes it was hard.

"Home, cold? Bad winter?" He asked, looking to the side to her again curiously, his own home was near the top of the world, where hers was the unknown bottom, was it cold to?