Kaleeth's reaction didn't disappoint. Janius grinned and chuckled through his nose. He let Kaleeth enjoy the view for a few more moments before taking her arm and encouraging her along. "Impressive, aren't they? When they're this big, they're called ships. They carry a lot of goods and people a long way across the water. We won't be going out to the horizon there, but we'll be heading all the way around the edge of the marsh and then a bit further. I've been on ships before, but never for that long. I hope it won't be too boring."

While Kaleeth was awestruck, Janius still wore a smile, but focussed on the people around them. If there were any unsavoury types, as was often the case on city docks, Janius wanted to know before it would be a problem. So far it was mostly fishermen and dock porters shifting crates or barrels. At this time of the day, just about everyone was a worker. Janius proceeded left along the docks and inspected all of the ships from the outside. Most were small fishing boats, though probably still bigger than the canoes Kaleeth had seen. Some were already unloading catches of ocean fish to sell. The fourth ship along was a little larger; a merchant ship by the looks. Some questioning of the crew loading goods revealed that it was heading north. They continued up the dock to the next larger ship to find that it wasn't taking passengers. The cargo was possibly too valuable to risk any strangers on board, Janius thought. The search continued without luck until they reached the last ship. This was a dedicated passenger vessel, so they would be sharing the space with a lot more people if they took this one. Some asking around found that the price for passage seemed reasonable, but was higher than Janius was expecting. They were heading out at dawn, the day after tomorrow.

It was still worth looking around to see if there were any others, so Janius decided that they would head down to the other end of the dock to try the ships there. Janius wasn't setting a pace that was conducive to conversation up to that point, so he looked to Kaleeth. "Was there anything else you wanted to know about ships, or the ocean?"