Bird's eye view, perhaps, but hardly safe!

[He gestures up towards the shelves.]

This place is old and in poor shape, my friend. Beneath your weight those shelves could topple at a moment's notice!

Then what? You'd be hurt!

[And something, somewhere, might hear it. Haurchefant doesn't say this out loud, at least not yet. Maybe there isn't anything here but them. No sense in causing panic over an uncertainty.]