Kinner laughs, not sure whether he should wish that the alien had been a better pilot.

"Well, I'm dead, so I don't think I can go back. I haven't taken the risk." Kinner doesn't quite understand all the rules of the Nexus, but he's almost certain you can't go back home when you're dead. And Kinner was digested by an alien, so he's pretty dead. "I last remember it grabbing me with a tentacle, and then I woke up here."