[Bobbery catches the shyness - he's stopped a very safe distance away without really being "distant", and returns the smile.]

Hm! A pleasure to encounter you.

[Lowers his head in something suggestive enough of a bow.]

I wish your Ampharos a return to ship-shape, wot? I should think that the resumed wellness of the one whom its lighthouse relies on will be a load off a port city's minds.