You know hand gestures mean nothing from that wing you've got, right?

[Mostly he's being disingenuous. He got the meaning, more or less.]

[Either way, he soon has a bat seated on his back. He shifts a bit, gauging the weight and feel of him there.]

Hold on, and I mean it, because if you fall off I'm carrying you by the scruff the rest of the way.

[Pause.]

If bats even have scruffs. The point is, either stay on me or you get to go the stupidest way I can find to carry you.