"'Not much he can do'?" Shade-Seeker echoes skeptically. "If he worries for the soundness of your vessel, why not heed him? Why not set him the task of anticipating those things which might befall, and preparing for them? Preventing what can be prevented, and mitigating as much as possible what cannot? Why not let him set his mind at ease? I have yet to see a thing so safe that it could not be made safer still."