She was questioning your intelligence.

When we were practicing the luge board,… Well, we understood each other. What we do here will affect the balance… Course their lives at stake, whole natio… Oh, now, there was some confusion when t… Yeah, you're fine. Only friend you ever had was a snake. They've been dead a long time. We've had an accident. Now you've got to undo it. Next, they'll want to eat papaya. A divinity shapes our ends and all that. Got the chains on him! Am I dead? Isn't that a good reason?