- Uh-huh, - before speaking, the loser looked around and twitched her limbs, assessing the strength of her shackles, - is anyone alive?
Saki was as far from humor as Aberat was from Reima, so this form of addressing her captors was not a joke, but merely a simple unwillingness to talk to the undead that had defeated her, due to the latter lacking any will of its own.