Why do you say that...? [Even if she doesn't know them, he feels like the disappeared people would probably stick out like sore thumbs...or they would in theory, if it was actually just that happening.

At her remark on him not having said what he thinks, there's a lengthy, thoughtful hum as if he's considering it.] I haven't, have I? But I think the forest is doing a lot to make people feel comfortable here. So I think it's more likely to be something about the forest itself than the people in it.

[It's kind of hard not to notice that about the forest, he thinks, though he does wonder if it stands out the same way to people who think they live here.]