"Meaning that everyone local in this place is- involved, somehow. We can't discuss any matters in public, anything about our true selves that doesn't line up with the stories people believe about us, not anything suspicious like- how we keep getting these strange flashes of memories, o-or how last month we, all of the Haven street outsiders, were somehow summoned to a shopping outlet and attacked by living mannequins. Events that have no plausible explanation."

Granted, he's from 1934, but this place is only twenty-ish years ahead of him - technology can't have advanced that far.

"If any of the locals catch you discussing it, you'll be kidnapped by Dr Norman Pollock," he continues, with a quicker urgency. "To be- h-he calls it re-education. Brainwashing and torturing you into exhaustion so you'll behave."