There is, in fact, a way he's found of filling his spare time here, but that's not really the business of someone he's just met. Besides, it's not really the kind of thing you bring up in polite conversation.

"They might be, but we haven't seen any indication of there being anything other than humans and wildlife in this place." Along with a cantankerous moose who seems to be better at surviving than some of the people here. "The town was never really full in the first place, and while new residents do keep showing up, other residents disappear, presumably back to where they came from. We've never come across anyone around here who wasn't a resident of the village. Except of course for new arrivals, who all arrive the same way."