"Good point. Back home we had some kids nearly starve to death because they couldn't be bothered to give up their playtime and go work in the fields." Even being up in the air can't lift Howard entirely out of his tendencies to be morbid. Although he does have to admit this is fun. The only things he has to fear, this high up, are lightning and falling. Counterintuitively, he feels safer up here than he does on the ground.

"And he was right, right? Or else you wouldn't be here."