Four years? Six years? [He's seen them in the journals, but hasn't personally spoken to any of them. Friendly as he is, he hasn't gotten to know too many people in town. The result of his own cageyness, mostly--certain lifestyle choices leave you with certain habits that are hard to break, even in peaceful circumstances.]

But yeah, the comings and goings are all completely random, so don't get your hopes up. You also might want to be on your toes, because ocassionally robots come to pick people up at random and take them to the people who run this place for experimenting and testing.

...It's pretty not cool, but it's very hard to stop even one of those robots. Skinny kid like you? Don't try to fight them if you see them.