[the outright confirmation doesn't surprise her, but it is nice to have.]

...you're here. Think that makes you about the same as everyone else anyway. [even if laudna does not feel alive, she is present and here and that's most of what aerith thinks matters.] And it sort of seems like the people who brought us here didn't think it would matter that much if someone was dead or alive when they bound us to another person. I don't think it makes your chances any worse than anyone else's.

[unfortunately they are all free game here.]