Oh... right, you probably can't speak if you're on land like this, can you? Sorry.

[She looks around... shoot, nothing to help her carry him, and she's not very strong. Crap, she REALLY didn't think this through.]

So wait, you were able to walk on land just fine until now, right? What happened?

[Because she's likely more familiar with the not!Disney version than Andersen's original tale, so she doesn't know about Andersen's foot trauma fetish the second part of the little mermaid's price.]