"We'll get down, you'll see, now, do you think you can watch me and how I go?" she asked, not sure how much he understood even if should have understood everything.

"Just watch how I go down the ladder, and then do the same, alright?" she soothed as she began her descent once more, surer in her climb with him holding the ladder. She reached the bottom, holding it there.

"Do you think you can come down just like that?" she called up to him.