"Anything coming roaring for us would probably be something worth running from," Skulduggery points out, not being a consumer of quality animated movies. "But so long as putting it like that makes it more tolerable, I'll take it."

After all, that was the point. Oh, and the other point, "Also, we're not dead. Some of us may have gotten close to death before being picked up by the ship, but the captain has the ability to resurrect the dead." Which doesn't sound quite as nice. "He's not able to create life from scratch, however; all of the foliage here is just an attempt to mimic the real thing. They aren't actually alive."