Lovely. Given that the only thing he had to go back to was death, that left him little incentive to desire a return home. Though no doubt those responsible would realize that and thus would provide incentive to do whatever they wished via letting him remain.

"I see." The tone the words were delivered in was such it was obvious the statement was more of an acknowledgement of the explanation than anything else. He didn't understand how he'd arrived, nor why, but if the boy was to be believed, he was here until the responsible parties chose to send him back.

"Just who are these people doing the...kidnapping?"