It wasn't like Snake had any way to confirm whether or not this guy was telling the truth, and that meant that he continued to remain unsettled about the whole thing. For all he know, he was dumping these kids right into the middle of a danger zone.

"Whatever else you're doing seems to leave you pretty tired too," Snake observed. He wasn't quite sure how he could tell that a skeleton was fatigued, but he could. Probably because whatever this thing was, it was much more animated than an actual skeleton would have been.

Also, had that pun been purposeful? Whatever, there wasn't time for that.

"Are you planning to transport more of them? I was gonna take a group, but that involves 'walking stuff.'" Which seemed like the safer option compared to some skeleton warping people around to who knew where.