"To be young again," Baltazar replied with feigned wistfulness, punctuating his sentence with a snort at the young knight's last comment. "I've never met any damsels myself, but I'll take your word for it. To answer your question, I suspect we're looking at over a month's travel, and that's at the very least. I've never been across the ocean, however, so you may want to ask the captain to be sure."

He had enough experience with the elder races that their condescending remarks was so much white noise at that point, and Baltazar weathered it patiently. No more introductions were forthcoming; he briefly considered introducing himself a second time to drive home his point, but decided against it - if for no other reason than that a handshake with a seated dwarf would probably be the most awkward moment of his life. Wait, what was that the dwarf just said about lizardmen?

"Are you experienced at fighting lizardmen?" Baltazar blurted out in honest surprise, "I mean, master dwarf, if you have encountered the lizardmen before, any information you might have would be tremendously useful. All I've ever heard myself are vague rumours."