Talk of the levitation spell does remind him of a slight inconvenient quirk of the spell.

“I should warn you, the levitation spell is designed only to be used on the caster. If you’re hoping to harvest the trees yourself, you will need to hold onto me long enough for us to get up there.”

He expects they can work something out if Lioriley’s reluctant to do so, but at this point he’s fairly sure she won’t be horrified by the thought.