"We didn't wander in here by accident," he pointed out. "And we're obstructed from leaving. What we have access to is controlled. Food replenishes itself, for example. There's available shelter. Whoever is responsible for this wants us trapped here but wants us alive." He shrugged expansively. "You can make your own deductions about what that means. We don't have any idea what they actually want from us at this time, but the narrative presented to us here is that there used to be a population in this town and that it's gone now."