He gives her a faint, quick smile to say that he knows it's a joke. He's a little too stressed to keep it up, but at least it was there.

"They deserve aspersions. They snapped at my ankle when I slipped earlier, which is entirely rude." Anders takes a breath before slowly bringing up another pillar of rock to stabilize the unreliable dock.

"This city relies on its docks. I'm somewhat surprised they let them get this bad... but not entirely so. I can't think of any time I've heard of it having good systems in place for maintaining the place." But maybe he shouldn't even be somewhat surprised. He did cause a lot of chaos.