"Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Depends on the game."

And if he's able to cheat. But that's not really the point is it? The point is that he wasn't really paying attention. Too concentrated on his own misery to even be able to. She looks like someone who handling the situation a lot better than he does... and he can't say he likes how it makes him look.

"Let me guess, some secluded place or out there hunting in the desert."

That's what Sylvain said how the Acolytes got him. No reason for them to change their methods.