[SE] how easily I can read that line

Iskra

BREATHE IT IN, IT'S JUST SNOW, WE'RE JUST FALLING
WE WON'T ALWAYS FREE FALL BACK TO NOTHING

It should not surprise him that she'sm run across ghostwhales before, but his eyebrows rise up just the same. "No shit, you've taken shots at them?" Unsuccessfully it seems, but still, he knows they're an impressive beast, so perhaps the firing was a way to barter safe travel rather than conquest with them, whale and ship each showing off their prowess under a mutual agreement of wreckage. "I bet it'd be easy to count out what you haven't run into," he muses, rubbing thoughtfully at his beard as he considers that as an alternative game some day.

Instead, he's got bingo to win, and while she's already laying a sticker across one so too has he found a square. He nods his head towards a man who's ice cream cone just fell, and he stares down forlornly at it. Iskra grins, all mischief and challenge, as he stickers over the square for 'dropped dessert'. "What're you hoping to see today?" he wonders, knowing she vanquished quite a few creatures, but perhaps there's some that enchanct her still. Ahead, the queue to the depths starts to move, and the platform soon awaits to drop them below.

I'M JUST STARTING TO LEARN
I'VE ALWAYS BEEN CHASING GHOSTS