"Pants are something that you kinda have to try to lose." That leads to an unfortunate, unpleasant conclusion. "Which means that either someone or something else took them off of me, or I had to ditch them to wind up here."

He shifts off his feet, looking at the boy, pausing before speaking since he had to clear his mind a little in order to have words to speak at all. "Right, so. Kiddo. I'm guessing a similar story happened to you? Is that why you're here, to pick up chumps drifting 'round off the side of an airship?"