Wh--no, of course not. It's just a figure of speech, I promise. [He almost sounds disgusted by the idea, but Cilan, people wouldn't think things like this if you talked like a normal person...]

As for riding them...um...well, I suppose Crustle might be large enough to carry someone, though I think you'd have to ask it first before doing something like that. [And it would be nowhere near like riding Appa or even something like Silver's Gyarados, it being a large hermit crab and all.]