Well, wasn't that an interesting answer? It implied so many things. For one, this person likely didn't believe whatever information he'd been given; for another, he liked a bit of dramatic turn of phrase.

Mal suppressed a grin. "Well, I doubt you'll find any very good answers here," she said, quite cheerfully, "although part of the reason for that is that nobody here much likes questions. Most questions. The big questions, like 'is all of this real?' and 'are you seriously expecting me to believe that I was slept through a global disaster?'"

She stepped a bit closer and held out her hand. "My name is Milena," she said, erring on the side of caution because here, in the Cave, with guards all around them, she'd be very stupid not to. "I'm going to hazard a guess that you've just woken up from a very long nap."