carry your baggage up my street

there exists a tipping point between gods and monsters

Despite the fact that he'd been the one to toss lightning at the spider, the result is such that even the captain, more than used to death and gore, is curling his lip at the results. "You had a list before?" he mutters, of her reasons to hate Halo, because if that was the case, Jack would very much like to know why they've come here to begin with. "If flyin' was an ability I'd learned, I'd have been usin' it long before now," he adds, spending a breath or two waiting to see if more spiders are going to come on the attack, before he slowly lets Flora go.

And yes, for the record, Jack will be climbing one of the trees like the rigging on his ship, and at least the captain isn't afraid of heights as he hoists himself up onto one of the lower boughs. "Keep watch here?" he asks, before pulling himself higher until he's able to get free of the treeline enough to orient themselves.

The good thing about The Ark flying is that she's very visible, and while they've gone a fair distance from their starting point, he can still see her to be able to navigate back in her direction. "Alright. Let's fuck off outta this forest," he calls down to Flora as he descends.