I'm from what I've been advised is far in the past- like early nineteenth-century past. So I guess it's more of a time thing.

[He's at least come to terms that he's at least a century, sometimes two beyond other people here. It was a bitter pill to swallow, but there's not much he can do about it. ]

I mean... sure, I guess? When you put it that way? And yeah, it's a place where there are these monsters which are attracted to negative emotions. It sounds pretty dangerous, from the way Ruby tells it.