"Because wine." And that was a great reason to think that wine was a good idea! Because it was there. He also had absolutely no way of knowing that Kaine had the alcohol tolerance of wet paper being torn into shreds. Her dazed eyes squinted at him as if she couldn't see Bert - and in a sense she couldn't! There were maybe six or eight Berts and all of them were trying to speak at the same time. - and in the end she patted his shoulders, and apparently missed every word he'd spoken.

"No, no, I'm fine, I'm okay. O-okay!" She drew out the first and last letters of that word just to make herself laugh again as her hands knocked Bert's off of her shoulders and she went right back to going ... Well, wherever she intended to go. "This way - Let's just go this way!"