Alpha blinked. No? That was one she'd heard only a few times before, and never nearly as meekly as this stranger said it. The possibility of him being just as poor as she was crossed her mind, but having lived on the streets long enough to know a trick when she saw one, she decided to keep her blade up and see if she could reason with him. "Surely you've got something," she said, "we can make a deal, huh? The continued use of your- ah, your finger, per se, for a few cents?" She was completely bluffing, she didn't actually want to hurt him, but she was good enough at masking her real emotions by now that it was probably hard for the stranger to tell.