"Uh, well no, actually," he admitted.

He awkwardly shifted his weight from foot to foot. The truth of the matter was that he hadn't even thought to ask the locals about this. They creeped him out. He couldn't help it; he just had a severe distrust of things that he couldn't see, even when he was looking right at them.

"I was waiting for you," he said. It was mostly the truth.